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| Country | India | ||
| State | Andhra Pradesh | ||
| District(s) | Medak | ||
| Time zone | IST (UTC+05:30) | ||
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Gajwel is a town, mandal and assembly constituency in the Medak district in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
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Gajwel is located at . It has an average elevation of 568 meters (1866 ft). Gajwel is about 53 km from Secunderabad on the Rajiv highway. It is one of the fastest developing towns with new industries setting up their bases. The nearest Airport is Rajiv Gandhi International Airport, Hyderabad, which is the capital of Andhra Pradesh.
Gajwel mandal is spread across 52,659 acres (213 km2) of land. There are approximately 10,600 houses in the mandal. According to the 1991 census, Gajwel mandal has a population of 55,320 of which 27,840 are men and 27,480 women.
Gajwel is one of the largest assembly constituencies of the Medak district. Many believe that the winning party in this constituency will form the government in the state as well. Mr T.Narsa Reddy is the current Member of the Legislative Assembly and the same congress is the current ruling party in the state.
Agriculture is the primary source of income. There are no special minerals found in this region. There are about 13 tanks which supply water to about 2,836 acres (11 km2) of land. There are about 147 ponds which supply water to about 2,852 acres (12 km2). There are about 1,685 water wells and 2,346 bore-wells. Approximately 49,997 acres (202 km2) of land is suitable for irrigation.
Gajwel mandal comprises 24 primary schools, ten upper middle schools and five high schools along with several government and private junior and degree colleges.
There are also several higher educational institutions: a private engineering college (Syed Hashim College of Science and Technology (J N T U, Hyderabad); the Government-run Residential Polytechnic College with three branches ECE, Mech and CCP exclusively for SCs located at Sangapur near Gajwel. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya also caters for the population of Gajwel.
The nearest railway station is about 25 km away.
Gajwel has a hospital with 100 beds. There are also several private medical practitioners along with nursing-home facilities.
Several banks are located in the mandal, which includes State Bank of India, State Bank of Hyderabad, Grameena Vikas Bank (Manjeera Grameena Bank), Andhra Bank and Co-operative Bank.
Gajwel has four cinema theaters.
There are several function halls in Gajwel. Started with Satyam function hall afer that PNR, VISHNAVI, PRAGNA, LAXMAN any many more. Real estate also highly affects this village and nearby, supposes to establish a car manufacture unit surrounding this place. a famous religion temple"saraswati temple" at wargal. a laxminarasimha swamy temple at dilalpur.
There are lot of hindu temples in this town, such as Rama Temple(Ramalayam),Krishna Temple, Ayyappa Temple, Anjaneyswami Temple, Siva temple, Venkateshwara Swamy Temple, Santhosh Matha Temples, Sai Baba and Satya Saibaba Temple.
There are few mosques in the town. They are Madina Masjid, Jama Masjid, Mohammedia Masjid, Salaheen Masjid, Jalal Masjid and Ek Minar Masjid, peerlapally masj.