Parwanoo

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?Parwanoo Himachal Pradesh • India
Coordinates: (find coordinates)
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
District(s)	Solan
Population	8,609 (2001)

Parwanoo is a city and a municipal council in Solan district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It's an industrial town It borders Panchkula district of Haryana, and is after the towns of Pinjore and Kalka on the Chandigarh Simla Highway. In fact it is separated by a river bed from the town of Kalka. Pinjore to Parwanoo is almost a continuous urban belt. From Pinjore there is also a road to Baddi. another nearby industrial town of Himachal.

To cash in on its proximity to Chandigarh and Panchkula the government set up industrial sectors and gave incentives that invited many small scale units to set up shop here. Prominent among them are Purolator, Morepen, Eicher (now sold to TAFE^[1]), Samtel. Dalli on its northern outskirts (on the Simla highway) is famous for its meat pickle shops. A resort with a cable car called Timber Trail is a few miles north of the town on the Simla highway again.

The town is 35 k.m from Chandigarh and 20 k.m from Panchkula. There is also a route to Kasauli direct from Parwanoo, avoiding Dharampur.

[edit] Demographics

As of 2001 India census^[2], Parwanoo had a population of 8609. Males constitute 61% of the population and females 39%. Parwanoo has an average literacy rate of 73%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 74%, and female literacy is 71%. In Parwanoo, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.