| Ulhasnagar उल्हासनगर | |
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| Country | India |
| State | Maharashtra |
| District(s) | Thane |
| Parliamentary constituency | Kalyan |
| Population | 472,943 (2001[update]) |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+05:30) |
| Area |
• 19 metres (62 ft) |
| Website | www.umc.gov.in |
Ulhasnagar (Marathi: उल्हासनगर, Marathi language is a city located on coast of the West India, approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi) northeast of the city of Mumbai, in the Thane district in the state of Maharashtra. This city is part of Mumbai Metropolitan Region managed by MMRDA.
Ulhasnagar, also referred to as Sindhunagar, has an estimated population of 472,943 people (2001).[1] The name derives from the Ulhas river which flows through it. Kalyan is situated near Ulhasnagar. The city is home to many types of businesses.[2]
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Ulhasnagar is located at .[3] It has an average elevation of 19 metres (62 feet).
As of 2001[update] India census,[4] Ulhasnagar had a population of 789,942. (Current Estimate : One million). Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%.
Ulhasnagar is a municipal town and the headquarters of the Tahsil bearing the same name. It is a railway station on the Mumbai-Pune route of the Central Railway. Ulhasnagar, a colony of migrants in the aftermath of the Partition of India (1947), is 61 years old. Situated 58 km from Mumbai, the once-barren land has developed into a rich town of Thane district. Originally, known as Kalyan Military transit camp (or Kalyan Camp), Ulhasnagar was set up especially to accommodate 6,000 soldiers and 30,000 others during World War II. There were 2,126 barracks and about 1,173 housed personals. The majority of barracks had large central halls with rooms attached to either end. The camp had a deserted look at the end of the war and served as a ready and commercial ideal ground for Partition victims. Sindhis, in particular, began life anew in the new land.
After the partition of India, over 100,000 Sindhi-speaking refugees from the newly created West Pakistan were relocated to deserted military camps five kilometres from Kalyan. The area was converted into a township in 1949, and named Ulhasnagar by the then Governor-general of India, C. Rajagopalachari (literally 'city of joy'; ulhas=joy; nagar=city). On August 8, 1949 the first and last Governor-General of India, C. Rajagopalachari, laid the foundation stone.
A suburban railway station was built in 1955. In January 1960, Ulhasnagar Municipality was formed, with Arjun K. Ballani as first chief, and a municipal council was nominated. In 1965, elections to this council were held for the first time. Now this 28 square kilometre area has 389,000 people of Sindhi descent, the largest enclave of Sindhis in India. The town lies outside Mumbai city but within the Mumbai Conurbation. In 2010, the estimated population of Sindhi Hindus in Ulhasnagar was 400,000.[5]
Business turnover in Ulhasnagar was estimated at Rs. 1,000 crores (US$ 200 million) in 1995. Consequently, politicians started to charge money to look the other way, and by 1999, each corporator in the municipality was said to be making 5 to ten lakhs in "protection money".[6]
In 1986, Pappu Kalani was elected president of the Ulhasnagar Municipal Council (UMC), and the same year, Ulhasnagar elected him to the state legislature as a candidate of the Indian National Congress.
One can reach Ulhasnagar by road or railway. Ulhasnagar railway station is on the Central Line of the Mumbai suburban railway. One can reach Ulhasnagar by alighting at either of Kalyan and Shahad station which are near camp 1 and 2 or Ulhasnagar and Vithalwadi railway stations which are close to 3 and 4 or Ulhasnagar and Ambernath railway stations are near to camp 4 and 5. The city is serviced by City Bus and autorickshaw for travel from Mumbai and Thane as well. Recently "Ulhasnagar Municipal Transport Service" was launched in 2010 wherein mini buses ply from kalyan railway station to kailash colony in ambernath near David's Cottage covering almost full Ulhasnagar.there are auto rikshaws and municipalty buses for transportation.
The city has colleges and an industrial-training institute like institute of technology ,New english(at camp no.5) , SST COLLEGE OF ARTS & COMMERCE etc.[7] Smt. Chandibai Himatmal Mansukhani college and R. K. Talreja are two major colleges. There are number of computer institutes.
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