Modinagar
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| ?Modinagar मोदीनगर Uttar Pradesh • India |
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| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Area • Elevation |
• 219.16 m (719 ft) |
| District(s) | Ghaziabad |
| Population | 112,918 (2001) |
| Codes • Pincode • Telephone • Vehicle |
• 201 204 • +01232 • UP14 UP15 & UP16 |
| Website: http://www.modinagar.net/ | |
Modinagar (मोदीनगर) is a city and a municipal board in Ghaziabad district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is approximately 45 kilometers north of New Delhi. It is approximately half an hour distant from Meerut and Ghaziabad. It is best known as the home of Modi Mills. In the recent years Modinagar is developing very fast in the field of Education as lots institution are coming up in and around the city.
It lies in Lat. 280 50' north and Long. 770 35' east, 25 km north-east of Ghaziabad on the Delhi-Mussoorie National Highway (NH-58). Modinagar is in between Meerut and Ghaziabad.
Parallel to this road runs the Delhi-Saharanpur section of the Northern Railway with a railway station here. A metalled road, going to Hapur, originates from the town.
It is of recent origin, having been founded by Gujar Mal Modi who established a sugar factory here in 1933, named the place after himself.
Begumabad, which has contributed about 571 acres of its area to the making of this town, is a much older place and is said to have been founded by one Nawab Zafar Ali and to have been named Begumabad by a lady of the royal family of Delhi when it passed into here hands.
Its importance has declined considerably with the growth of Modinagar as an industrial town. Sugar, vegetable oil, textiles (including rayon & silk), soap, paints, varnishes, and lanterns glycerine, cotton yarn, torches, carbon-di-oxide and flour are produced at Modinagar.
A temple (built in the early nineteenth century by Rani Bala Bai Sindhia) which was formerly in the village of Begumabad, is now included in the notified area of Modinagar near Rukmani Devi Girls Inter College. opposite Police Station.
The city also has engineering and management institutes set up by the Modis in 80s,Management institute - Centre for Management Development and engineering institute like Dr. K.N.Modi institute of Engineering & Technology [www.knmiet.edu], KNGD Modi Engineering College (KNGD) & also there are more management college as SRM Institute of Management & Technology[www.srmimt.com]& Unique Instt. Of Management, International Institute of Fine Arts (IIFA)[www.iifaindia.org], Dr K N Modi Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Research. These colleges are doing extremely well in their respective fields.
Good public schools are a lot of in numbers here, in which list the Dayawati Modi Public School , ST Teresa's Academy and T.R.M. Public School tops the list of facilities & ameneties in schools, being owned by the Modi empire.
Modinagar is also known for its famous Laxmi Narayan Mandir temple, also known as the "Modi Mandir" and located on National Highway 58, spread over 15.2 acres approx, with a built up area of 0.53 acres approx [1].It is also famous for "SHIKANJI" the famous lamonide prepared here.
The city is serving the nation by producing many IITians n Doctors every year.
[edit] Demographics
As of 2001 India census[2], Modinagar had a population of 112,918. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Modinagar has an average literacy rate of 75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 81%, and female literacy is 69%. In Modinagar, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.
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[edit] See also
All About Modinagar & also visit [1]
