Bagpat district
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Baghpat district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Bagpat town is the district headquarters.
The District Magistrate and Collector's offices have been recently constructed in Baghpat. There is a sugar mill in Baghpat. There is a lot of sugarcane,wheat,mustard and vegetables grown in Baghpat district. The Yamuna river flows to the west of Baghpat and is close by. Real estate activity has hotted up in Baghpat district of late.
Earlier the Tehsil office used to be situated in Baghpat.
The biggest town in the district is Baraut.
Baraut is famous for Digambar Jain College and Jat College(now called Janta Vedic college).
It is famous for the Rim & Dhura and agricultural implements industries.
The well known old families of Baraut were the Ganga Ram Kishorilal family which owned agricultural land and had several mills including the Ganga Oil Mills which was famous for its pure mustard oil in the preindependence period and till 1960's.
Khekra is another well known town famous for its Jain temple at Badagaon.