Nawanshahr

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Nawanshahr
City
Nawanshahr is located in Punjab
Nawanshahr
Nawanshahr
Location in Punjab, India
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Country  India
State Punjab
District Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar
Population (2001)
 • Total 30,933
Languages
 • Official Punjabi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 144514
Telephone code 01823
Vehicle registration PB-32

Nawanshahr (Punjabi: ਨਵਾਂਸ਼ਹਿਰ) is a city that became a district in 1995; now it is a municipal council in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Punjab. It is the headquarters of Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar District.

Nawanshahr is a very fast-expanding city. It has one government hospital, many private hospitals with new technology, and very good doctors from all professions. Nawanshahar has a co-ed college, R.K. Arya, and one girls' college. S.N College, Banga is one of the best colleges in the area .

Recently,6th May, 2012, Krishna Kumar IAS (Deputy Commissioner, Nawanshahar 2005-07) was appreciated by actor Aamir Khan in his show Satyamev Jayate (http://www.satyamevjayate.in/) for his remarkable efforts in curbing female foeticide in Nawanshahar district. During his term as deputy commissioner, he was instrumental in increasing the sex ratio by 75 points in the district. This has been termed the "Nawanshahr Model" and is being used by other states to curb female foeticide. He has been widely appreciated for improving the quality of primary education in the state of Punjab during his stint as director general of Education, Punjab.

History

The Ghorewaha Rajputs were propertiers or part propertiers of Rahon, Bhaddi, Jadla et al. Langroya is very famous village just five kilometers from Nawan Shahr. Their rule started in 1070 with Raja Hawaha Singh and held huge territories in Nawanshahr, Jallandhar, Ludhiana and Hoshirapur and continued as Raja of Machiwara till a long time.[1]

Nawanshahr is said to have been built during the reign of Alauddin Khilji (1295-1316) by his Afghan military chief Nausher Khan. Previously it was called "Nausar" but, with the passage of time, the town came to be known as "Nawanshahr". Nausher Khan had constructed five forts known as havelis, whose remains still exist.

On September 27, 2008 in Khatkar Kalan 7 kilometres from Nawanshar, to honor freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, the Punjab government announced that a district in the state will be named after him. The announcement was made by Punjab Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal at a function in the ancestral village of the martyr to mark his 101st birth anniversary. Nawanshahr district would be renamed as Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar.

Demographics

File:Bus Terminal Nawashahr Punjab.jpg
Nawashahr Bus Stand

As of the 2011 India census,[2] Nawanshahr had a population of 587,468. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Nawanshahr has an average literacy rate of 75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 71%. In Nawanshahr, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

The scheduled caste population is 45.58%[3]

Notable residents

References

  1. ↑ "http://www.namdar.net/Ghorewaha.htm"
  2. ↑ Template:GR
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