Kaladungi

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?Kaladungi Uttarakhand • India
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Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
District(s)	Nainital
Population	6,126 (2001)

Kaladungi is a town and a nagar panchayat in Nainital district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.

The place is located just on the foothill, a good climate but summers are hot, located 26 km west of Haldwani on the Haldwani-Ramanagar road. Nainital is at distance of only 30 km to the north and Bazpur at about 19 km to south. It has a road connecting to Delhi via Bazpur, Tanda and Moradabad.

1 Overview
2 Demographics
3 Local attractions
4 References

[edit] Overview

Through this route there are beautiful forests on the northside. Kaladungi has been a local commercial centre for the surrounding villages in the plains, for over a century now ^[1].

Kaldhungi, is a Tehsil headquaters, has an Intermediate Govt. School, and Hospital, with normal facilities like, electricity, water, telephone, banks, post office etc.

Kaladungi is a very fertile area and a variety of fruits and vegetables like mangoes, lichi, papaya, gauva, bannana, (vegetables - potato, cauliflower, tomato, cabbage, peas, beens, brinjaul, guards, lauki, kaddu, karela, dhaniya, haldi, zinger, sarson, methi, palak etc etc). Main crops are wheat, rice, mustard, sugarcane, maiz, soyabean, gram, arhar, moong, masoor etc.

[edit] Demographics

As of 2001 India census^[2], Kaladungi had a population of 6126. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Kaladungi has an average literacy rate of 62%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 70%, and female literacy is 53%. In Kaladungi, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age.

[edit] Local attractions

Jim Corbett, the famous man eater hunter and a great environmentalist lived at Choti Haldwani, 2 km west of Kaladungi on Ramnagar road for most years of his life. His house has now been converted into a museum in his memory by the government, known as 'Jim Corbett Museum', a must see for the tourist going to Nanital taking Kaladunigi-Nainital road. There are also the graves of his two dogs in the compound of the museum.