Hapur district is a recently formed

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in the

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with a population of 1,338,211 at the 2011 Census. This district on the

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river is from

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History

The new district ''Panchsheel Nagar'', was created from the tehsils of

Hapur Hapur is a city in, as well as the headquarters of, Hapur district, in Uttar Pradesh, India. Located about east of New Delhi, the city is part of the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR). National Highway 9 passes through the city, connecting ...

, Garhmukteshwar and Dhaulana (which were previously part of

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) as one of three new districts of Uttar Pradesh on 28 September 2011. U.P. Chief Minister

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justified the decision by declaring that Ghaziabad district was "far too big for administrative efficiency", and that creating smaller districts conformed to the ideas proposed by social reformers

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and

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. The district was renamed from Panchsheel Nagar to ''Hapur district'' on 23 July 2012. Hapur district is a part of Meerut division.

Government

It falls within the National Capital Region of India but comes under the state legislature of

Administrative divisions

Hapur district contains three

Tehsils 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 administr ...

, Garhmukteshwar and Dhaulana.

Demographics

The district population as the 2011 census was 1.3 million, which was split into 30% urban, 70% rural.

Economy

Major industries in the district are food processing, paper, textiles and steel tube production.

References

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