Sanawad

Sanawad is a city and a municipality in Khargone district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Geography

Sanawad is located at ^[1]. It has an average elevation of 178 metres (583 feet).

Demographics

As of 2001^[update] India census^[2], Sanawad had a population of 20000. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Sanawad has an average literacy rate of 82%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 86%, and female literacy is 72%. In Sanawad, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.

The town has a Government Polytechnic College of diploma, a government degree college for commerce and science, along with a private college of science. There are well-known educational institutes as M D Jain H S School, Vimala Convent School, Saraswati Vidhya Mandir, which are serving for education and culture. There are more than 5 educational institutes. Sanawad old name is "Gulshanabad". Political status of the town is strongest in the District.

The local economy of Sanawad is based mainly around Agriculture and Trading. The main crops of the currounding region are cotton, wheat and soybean. Sanawad is located very near to the Narmada river (around 7 KM), 70 KM from Indore and 60 KM from Khargone (the district headquarters) and 10 KM from Barwaha which is the Tehsil. Sanawad is going to be Tehsil within 1 or 2 years.

Sanawad city is also known as the city of Mela who has known as Piranpir Evam Shitla Mata Mela . It is having smallest "Bus Stand" of Madhya-Pradesh. Due to cores of construction because of the canal work, the city is making its mark in Khargone District. There are a total of five Jain temples. Among them Digambar Jain Samavsaran Temple is considered among the eight famous Jain temples across India.

This is the place of freedom fighters like "Brij mohan Sharma" also known as Birju Seth, Kamal Chand Jain (Also known as Master Saab) and Shri Durgashankar Patidar who has won Rashtrapati Purushkar in teachership Jagdeesh Vidyarthi, all very famous for their Freedom activities during English rule. Nowadays, the youth of the city are very up-to-date and technical freaks.

Naag Mandir is also quite popular here.

There is also a very well know "Piranpir Tekari" on the top of a hill. There is a Dargah on the top and little below on the same hill there are few of temples. This is one of the good and unique thing about Sanawad.

Sanawad is well connected by ROAD and RAIL to few of the major and important cities of Madhaypradesh, Indore and Khandwa.

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