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Yamuna Nagar
city
Country India
StateHaryana
DistrictYamuna Nagar
Elevation
255 m (837 ft)
Population
 (2001)
 • Total532,000
 • Density687/km2 (1,780/sq mi)
Languages
 • OfficialHindi
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
135001
Telephone code1732
Vehicle registrationHR-02
Sex ratio877 ♂/♀

Yamuna Nagar pronunciationⓘ (Template:Lang-hi, Template:Lang-pa) is a city and a municipal corporation in Yamuna Nagar district in the Indian state of Haryana. This town is known for the cluster of plywood units. The older town is called Jagadhri. The Jagadhari Railway Station services the city. It is a green, clean and prosperous industrial city.[citation needed] However, due to recent spur in Industrial units in and around the city have resulted in severe air, water and soil pollution issues.[citation needed] The city is turning up rapidly with the opening of a multiplex and various brand stores,the latest addition being NATHU sweets.

Geography

Yamuna Nagar has the river Yamuna running through the district, and forming the eastern boundary with the neighbouring Saharanpur district. This boundary is also a state boundary, as Saharanpur is in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The distt. also separates the Yamuna system from the Satluj river system.

Towards its northern edge is a sub-mountainous region, which has more forest cover and lots of streams; it is the area where the river Yamuna flows out of the hills and into the plains. The northern boundary is also an interstate boundary with the state of Himachal Pradesh to the north. Sirmour in Himachal is the district to its north with the towns of Nahan and Paonta Sahib close to the boundary with Yamuna nagar.

To its west and northwest is Ambala district, and to its west and southwest is Kurukshetra district. To its south is Karnal district.

Demographics

As of 2011 India census,[1] Yamuna Nagar had a population of 1,214,162 . Males constitute 53.27% of the population and females 46.73%. Yamuna nagar has an average literacy rate of 78.90 %, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 85.10 %, and female literacy is 72.00 %.

History

This town became the new home of the refugees who migrated to this part of the country on the partition of the country in 1947 .Rampura Colony, Model Colony, Model Town and Gandhi Camp areas of modern city were reserved for them, the position remained as such up to 1970s. The place was earlier known as 'Abdullahpur' which was later renamed by the city's eminent people as Jamnanagaar and later on as Yamunanagar.Till 1947, it was a small hamlet of 6000 people, mostly population concentrated around Jagadhri Railway Station and Yamuna Gali, Old Radaur Road area. After partition of India, many migrants from Punjab in Pakistan chose to make Yamuna Nagar/Jagadhri their new home, and in the process. adding to the culture of the town. The area where land was allocated to the migrants, later developed into the Model Town area of Yamuna Nagar, the centre of the city area.The city is made on land which is acquired by government and was used in developing the city.The area is dominated by the Punjabi community. The local Sanatan Dharm Sabha was founded by Capt.Ishar singh Chhibber,Mehta Ralla Ram Mohan, Nand Kishor Vohra and Laxmidas Vasudeva in 1950 which still is the biggest temple complex in the city. Mohyal Sabha Yamunanagar was founded by Mehta Deena nath Dutta, Mehta Ladda Raam, Capt. Sukhal Chand, Mehta Ralla ram mohan Mehta Prithvich and Bodh raj dutta The Topra Asokan pillar of Delhi was found in the village Topra Kalan, about 20 km from yamunanagar.Archaeological survey of India has found many Harrapan bricks and stones from the area. Also a stupa of Ashoka's times was found in the nearby village

Health

Yamuna Nagar has been a front runner in health and medical services the state of Haryana.

Other hospitals

Health care services are a mirror of the governance's effectiveness. It reflects the extent to which the so called Govt. of the people, for the people and by the people care for the people. Distt. Yamuna Nagar, in this scenario typically represents varying aspects of this sector of the nation. To start with the rural areas where it is said that 72% of the population resides. The health services in the rural areas have witnessed a considerable improvements in comparison to what existed at the time of independence. Therefore, the Government surely played a role in the uplifting of health services. However, at the same time, when one weighs it in relation to the contemporaneous standards, he finds that there are gaping clefts existing. Whatever efforts have been taken by the govt. have fallen short of the actual care required. There do exist govt. healthcare centres but the paradox is that no Doctor is ready to render his services in these areas and postings at these places are treated as punishments. This is quite evident in Naharpur and Chhachhrauli Centres. And as one would expect, there is almost a complete absence of Private hospitals with good facilities in the rural areas. As a result, the rural people have to run to the nearest urban centres.

In urban areas, there seems to be a flood of hospitals. One can find these every here and there. But again, the hospitals worth hospitals are few. Though there is Civil Hospital in the Distt, but its sorry states have reduced it to mere centres of authorisation of the accidents, M.L.R. and other documentation related purposes. It is widely held that one would only turn to the Civil Hospital if he has plenty of free time and quite unfortunately, no money. These circumstances force people to turn towards the privately run hospitals, a brief description of which is given below.

  • Sh. Suresh Chandra Memorial Eye Hospital
  • Gaba Hospital – Mainly for trauma cases
  • Santosh Hospital – new entrant. Consultation fee out of reach of the poor. Should be avoided to the extent possible.
  • Sharma Hospital – An Average hospital
  • Sihint Ent Hospital
  • Goel Hospital – Orthopaedics. A very good hospital in care and patient satisfaction.
  • Mahindra Hospital
  • Aggarwal Hospital –
  • Mukund Lal Civil Hospital
  • Waryam Singh Hospital
  • Masih Hospital
  • Roop rani eye lasik hospital
  • Rana Hospital, Kanahyia Sahib Chowk, Ynr
  • vishal hospital
  • Dayasheel Hospital

Education

Schools

  • Sacred Heart Convent School
  • S.D. Public School, Jagadhri
  • Maharishi Vidya Mandir Public School
  • Sacred Heart Convent School
  • St. Thomas School
  • St. Nishchal School
  • Anand Public School
  • National Public School
  • Springfields Public School
  • M.L.N. Public School
  • Vivekanand Public School
  • Nav Prabhat School
  • dav public school yamuna nagar
  • New Haryana Public School
  • Delhi public school, yamunanagar

Colleges

Yamuna Nagar has emerged as a destination for the graduate studies. Students have come here to pursue their education primarily from U.P, Himachal besides the local ones. Abundance of Girls colleges contribute to making it the highest female literacy Distt. in the State.

The anxiety to choose a good college is sensible among senior school students. The list of prominent colleges is as below.

Management Institutes

Engineering colleges

  • Haryana engineering college, jagadhri
  • Maharishi Ved Vyas Engg. College.Jagadhri
  • Shri Ram Institute of Engineering & Technology, Pounta sahib Road, vill Urjani, Teh. Chhachhrauli, Yamuna Nagar
  • Institute of Science and Technology Klawad, Klawad
  • Ganpati Institute of Technology and Management, Bilaspur
  • Global Research Institute of Management and Technology, Radaur
  • Seth Jaiprakash Mukand lal Institute of Engineering & Technology, Radaur
  • Yamuna Group of Institutions Village Gadholi, P O Gadhola, Distt. Yamuna Nagar
  • Shri Siddhi Vinayak Engineering college, Shahpur, Bilaspur

Medical colleges

  • J.N. Kapoor DAV Centenary Dental College

Religious places

Yamuna Nagar has the appreciable past record of not allowing the communalising tendencies to part people on the lines of religion, language or any other divisive forces. Different religion co exist harmoniously and is expected to take forward these trends. Prominent religious centre of the twin cities are:

  • Chitta Mandir
  • Panchmukhi Hanuman Mandir
  • Gita Bhawan
  • Santpura Gurudawara
  • Chandpur Masjid
  • Buria Sahib Gurudwara
  • Jodian Sahib gurudwara
  • Maa kali mandir
  • Dayalu hanuman mandir
  • Giri mandir
  • Dera Baba Chaa Wala
  • Shree Khera Mandir
  • Kapal Mochan(Bilaspur)
  • Gumthala Rao(Ganga-Dushara mela)
  • Sahaja yoga Free meditation center at (MOHIYAL BHAWAN)

Industries

Yamuna Nagar is well known for its industries. It has emerged as an important industrial destination in the state. This has been despite its relatively isolated location from rest of the state. Due to expanding industries, the city kept on extending geographically. This is primarily due to an increasing number of immigrants. This led to an intermixing of diverse culture. It also has to do with the rural ambiance which is reported to have undergone a lot of change. With increasing population, the trading aspects became brighter and the city went on becoming the second highest revenue generator of Haryana, immediately after Faridabad that owes its position largely to its prime location.

The city produces sugar machinery, paper machinery along with highly efficient equipments for petro-chemical plants, which are shipped to various refineries across the country. The city is also known for its Plywood productions, which is attributed to the easy accessibility of primary raw material – poplar tree. It has also one of India's largest railway carriage and wagon repair workshops. Recently, Reliance Industries has also installed a thermal power plant in the town. Haryana Urban Development Authority has done major development work in the land-stretch linking the city with Jagadhri, the other part of twin city.

  • Allied Alloy Products (www.alliedalloyproducts.com)
  • Kay Iron Works (Yamuna Nagar) Pvt. Ltd
  • Kay Bouvet Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
  • C.B.M Engineering works
  • Yamuna Power & Infrastructure Ltd.
  • Navyug Engineering Corporation
  • Jamna Auto Industries Ltd. (JAI)
  • Saraswati Sugar Mill (Asia's Largest Sugar Mill)
  • Bilt Paper Mill
  • Wine Mill (country liquor)
  • Railway Workshop, Jagadhri Workshop
  • Stone Crushing And Screening Units (approximately 200 in number)
  • Steel Utensil, Jagadhri
  • SafeXplore Inc. (Website Design, Web application & Software Development)
  • Instrumentation units
  • OEM's foe auto parts
  • United industries
  • Plywood factories (approximately 300 in number)
  • Match Industries
  • Techno Cutters' (Manufacturer of Drills, Reamers and HSS Cutters)
  • Medicine Industries
  • ISGEC, manufacturing hydraulic and mechanical presses and boilers
  • Special Steel, instrumentation for oil & gas refineries
  • Priti Chemical Industries (Manufacturer of Hypo and washing soda )
  • Plastic Industries

Despite being the second highest revenue-generating city after National Capital Region there has been less development in Yamuna Nagar.[citation needed]

Software Company

Agriculture

Due to the presence of plenty of water and good fertile soil main crops are sugarcane, rice, wheat and garlic, etc. One of the main source of the income of farmers of Yamuna Nagar is agri-forestry, in which farmers grow poplar and eucalyptus besides conventional farming.The main villages of the Yamuna nagr are Kharwan, Radaur,Attawa, Gumthala Rao,Kandroli, Jathalana,Naharpur,Model Town Karhera(karhera kalan),Nachroun, Pallewala Karera -khurd etc.

Tourism

Located at the base of Shivalik Hills, Yamuna Nagar has moderately developed tourism industry. The state government owns and maintains a Haryana Tourism guest house, Grey Pelican on the banks of the river Yamuna, close to river's exit from the hills.[2] The city has some historical places around it to visit.Some noteworthy of those are:

  • Kapalmochan
  • Panchmukhi
  • Aadhbadri
  • Jindal Park

Hotels : Orchid Square (rated number one of the city) Model Town, Gobindpuri Road,Bikano Chowk (http://orchidsquarehotel.com/index.html) [3] Madhu Hotel Sapphire Hotel Jyoti Hotel JK Residency are some of the luxurious hotels in the city.

Social Organisations

There are various social organisations in the district such as:

  • Utthan Institute of Development & Studies(for social causes,research, training, advocacy and issue based networking)
  • Koshish Institute of Disability Management & Rehabilitation (for the welfare, education and training of mentally retarded, hearing and speech impaired,spastics, children with cerebral palsy etc.)
  • Madhur Milan Institute of Family Life Education & Counselling (for family disputes,marital maladjustment,domestic violence, child custody, child care, legal aid etc.)
  • Heritage Hermitage- Bujurg Kuteer (Welfare Centre for the Aged)
  • Mahila Suraksha and Vikas Manch (about 150 centres for enabling and empowerment of women)
  • Niramaya Institute of Community Health and Social Medicine (for women, children and adolescent health & nutrition education and support services)
  • District Red Cross
  • District Child Welfare Council

Besides there are some clubs in the town such as:

  • Lions club (Distt 321 A2),
  • Yamuna Club,
  • Rotary Club
  • Gymkhana Club

The city is one of the better developed cities of Haryana and has good educational and medical facilities. It has the highest literacy rate in Haryana.

Additional Information

Western Yamuna canal of the river Yamuna flows on one side of the city. These canal servers the irrigation needs of the farmers. The canal has century old path ways, called pattri locally, on both sides which serve has connecting routes between villages even today and also help the irrigation department to maintain the canal and provide a perfect scenic walk with water on one side and green lush farms on other hand.

The river marks the boundary of the district with the state of Uttar Pradesh which borders the city on the eastern side of river Yamuna. The neighbouring city is Saharanpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh. In the north, the district borders the state of Himachal Pradesh, Sirmaur being the district and the towns of Nahan and Paonta Sahib being the towns nearby. Tajewala headworks from where the Yamuna canal is diverted is also north of the city. Jagadhri is an adjoining town famous for its stainless steel industry.

References

  1. ^ Template:GR
  2. ^ "Destinations in Yamuna Nagar".
  3. ^ "Destinations in Yamuna Nagar-Hotel Sappire".
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