Kaimganj

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Kaimganj is a city located in the Farrukhabad District in the north Indian province of Uttar Pradesh, India.

1 Description
2 Economy
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Description

Kaimganj was founded by Nawab Mohammad Khan Bangash in 1713 and named after his son Kaim Jang, who was its first administrator. The meaning of the word Ganj is market place.

It is also the birth place of General Rahimuddin Khan, Martial Law Governor of Balochistan for an unprecedented seven years between 1978 and 1984.

[edit] Economy

The city is well known for its chewing tobacco and sugar mill. The tobacco cultivated in Kaimganj is cured by the sun and contains good amounts of nicotine. The tobacco is crushed into various sizes. A large range of different qualities are available. Tobacco is supplied to all the leading chewing tobacco manufacturers such as raja khaini, mast mast khaini, kuber khaini, mughal khaini, among others. The total turn over of the city is over 3 crore per day, which includes internal and external trade. The chief tobacco suppliers of the city are Anurag Tobacco Company, the Sri Lakshmi Tobacco Company, and The General Supply Corporation.

Besides the tobacco business, the city is also a potato hub and exports potatos to nearly all of India from Kashmir to Tamil Nadu and Gujarat to Assam.

There is also a Sugar Mill at Kaimganj which crushes a large amount of sugarcane. There is also a famous ICSE school named C.P.Vidya Niketan and numbers of students from other districts come here to study. The main market of Kaimganj is Baba Market. There are many cloth merchant companies like Ramesh and Company and ashu vastra lok providing a wide scope of choice in the cloth market. People acquire surat stock there and also varanasi mumbai and others.