Jewar is a town and a

nagar panchayat A nagar panchayat (town panchayat; ) or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,000 ...

Gautam Buddha Nagar District Gautam Buddha Nagar district is a district of Uttar Pradesh, named after Gautama Buddha. It is a part of Delhi NCR and is divided into 4 sub-divisions i.e. Noida, Greater Noida, Dadri and Jewar. Greater Noida is the administrative headquarters o ...

in the

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Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

Location

Jewar is located in the suburbs of

Greater Noida Greater Noida is a planned city located in Gautam Buddha Nagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city was created as an extension to Noida area under the ''UP Industrial Area Development Act, 1976''. Situated south-east of t ...

about from

Noida Noida, short for New Okhla Industrial Development Authority, is a planned city located in Gautam Buddha Nagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Noida is a satellite city of Delhi and is a part of the National Capital Region (NCR) o ...

, from Greater Noida, from Gautam Buddha University and from Khair. It is on the northeast bank of the

Yamuna The Yamuna ( Hindustani: ), also spelt Jumna, is the second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge and the longest tributary in India. Originating from the Yamunotri Glacier at a height of about on the southwestern slopes of B ...

River. It is located between 28.13° north latitude and 77.55° east longitude at an elevation of .

History

The ancient name of the town was Jáwáli , so called in honour of its founder , a Brahman anchorite. Brahmans still hold possession here, and most of land belongs to them.

Overview

History records that the town was named after the sage Maharshi Jaawali. In the west of Jewar at a distance of {{convert, 1, km, spell=in is an ashram and an old temple of the Maharshi. Other temples in the town is the Devi Mandir and the Daau ji Mandir famous for the Dau ji Mela held every year in the month of September. It is located in the outskirts of Greater Noida, the district headquarters are located in

itself. It is about {{convert, 35, km, mi, abbr=on away from Noida, and one can come via Dankaur, Rabupura. A 6-lane wide

Yamuna Expressway Yamuna Expressway is a 6- lane wide (expandable to 8) and 165.5 km long access-controlled expressway in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is presently India's 3rd longest expressway since February 2017. It was built to de-congest the old ...

connects Jewar from Greater Noida and Agra. This whole district (Gautam Buddha Nagar) including Noida/ Greater Noida is said to be one of the most fast developing areas of India. Before 1997, Jewar and Dankaur were parts of the Bulandshahr district. Now Jewar & Dankaur along with Dadri and Bisrakh (earlier parts of Ghaziabad district) are parts of

Gautam Buddha Nagar district Gautam Buddha Nagar district is a district of Uttar Pradesh, named after Gautama Buddha. It is a part of Delhi NCR and is divided into 4 sub-divisions i.e. Noida, Greater Noida, Dadri and Jewar. Greater Noida is the administrative headquarters o ...

Demographics

As of

2011 Indian Census The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, Jewar had a total population of 32,269, of which 17,188 were males and 15,081 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 5,095. The total number of literates in Jewar was 18,184, which constituted 56.4% of the population with male literacy of 63.8% and female literacy of 47.9%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Jewar was 66.9%, of which male literacy rate was 75.9% and female literacy rate was 56.7%. The

Scheduled Castes The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India. The terms are recognized in the Constitution of India and the groups are designa ...

population was 7,087. Jewar had 4623 households in 2011.{{cite web , title=Census of India: Bahraich , url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=138492 , website=www.censusindia.gov.in , access-date=12 January 2020

Connectivity

Jewar is mainly connected to other Major sites through roads and rail network. People commute to Delhi by rail from

Palwal Palwal is a city and a municipal council. It is the headquarters of Palwal district, the 21st district of Haryana state in northern India. It is a centre of the cotton trade in the area. It is also a part of National Capital Region. Etymo ...

, Khurja and Wair. Khurja is around {{cvt, 35, km from Jewar and Palwal is around {{cvt, 28, km away. Palwal is city of

Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land a ...

, Initially part of

Faridabad Faridabad is the most populous city in the Indian state of Haryana and a part of Delhi National Capital Region. It is one of the major satellite cities around Delhi and is located 284 kilometres south of the state capital Chandigarh. The ri ...

district but from 2008, Palwal is a separate district. Some state bus also run two times a day to Greater Noida District center. In the west is Haryana state. Jewar itself is a ''

Tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administ ...

'', and well connected to many ''tehsils'' and districts by road namely Khurja, Sikandrabad,

Bulandshahr Bulandshahr, formerly Baran, is a city and a municipal board in Bulandshahr district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Bulandshahr district and part of Delhi NCR region. According to the Governmen ...

, Khair,

Aligarh Aligarh (; formerly known as Allygarh, and Kol) is a city in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. It is the administrative headquarters of Aligarh district, and lies northwest of state capital Lucknow and approximately southeast of the cap ...

and Palwal (District - Faridabad in Haryana). Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) planning to build a monorail project connecting Noida to

Agra Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra i ...

with monorail (yet not confirmed). Noida International Airport is under-construction to connect NCR with other international cities via building an airport at near town of Jewar.

Geography

Jewar is located at {{coord, 28.12, N, 77.33, E. It has an average elevation of {{convert, 195, m, ft.{{cite web, title=Jewar Weather - AccuWeather Forecast for Uttar Pradesh India, url=http://www.accuweather.com/en/in/jewar/191283/weather-forecast/191283, website=AccuWeather, access-date=17 February 2017

References

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