Kosi Kalan

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Kosi Kalan
State - District(s)	Uttar Pradesh - Mathura
Area
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Population (2001) - Density	45,684 -

Kosi Kalan is a city and a municipal board in Mathura district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

[edit] Demographics

As of 2001 India census^GRIndia, Kosi Kalan had a population of 45,684. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Kosi Kalan has an average literacy rate of 51%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 59%, and female literacy is 41%. In Kosi Kalan, 18% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Kosi Kalan Municiple Board has been served by Gayalal family for a long time. In year 1944, Kosi Kalan was declared as Notified Area and Mr. Gayalal Agrawal was nominated as 1st Chairman. His 2nd son Babulal Agrawal was elected as chairman on 26th December 1964. Babulal Agrawal served the board for 7 years until 2nd Jul 1971. On 20th Jul 1973, his younger brother Jagdish Prasad Agrawal was elected as chairman and he served until 4th May 1976 and again he was elected on 14th Sep 1976. Again for the 3rd time, he got a chance to manage the municiple board on 26th Nov 1988 and did so for 5 years.

After a long time, this time, the 3rd generation of the Gayalal family, Mrs. Vandana Agrawal was elected as chair person on 6th Nov 2006. During her swearing-in ceremony, on 18th Nov 2006, Shri Babulal Agrawal while addressing the pubilc gathering suffered a cardiac arrest and expired. He was of 82 years (Date of Birth: 23 May 2024). Shri Babulal Agrawal was connected with multiple social organizations like Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Ramlila Sansthan, Srikrishna Gaushala. His funeral was attended by thousands of people.

Shri Babulal Agrawal was a true social worker and did lot of good work for Kosi Kalan during his chairmanship. He did manage the whole city with incredible leadership by taking even his opponents with him.

Kosi kalan had 4 jain tample. Kosi Kalan had a population of 5000 people belogs to jain family. Kosi kalan had a big Jain Group to take care of all the jain activities. Mr. Maneesh Jain is a presentaly chairman of Jain Group. He is a soft engg..