Adampur is a town, a

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough cou ...

and a sub-tehsil in

Jalandhar district Jalandhar district is a district in Doaba region of the state of Punjab, India. The district headquarters is the city of Jalandhar. Before the Partition of India, Jalandhar was also the headquarters of the Jalandhar Division, with constituent ...

in the

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n state of

Punjab Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...

. The town was named after the

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general

Adham Khan Adham Khan (1531 – 16 May 1562) was a general of Mughal emperor Akbar. He was the younger son of Maham Anga, and thus, was the foster brother of Akbar. In his fourth regnal year, Akbar married him to Javeda Begum, the daughter of Baqi Khan B ...

Geography

Adampur Doaba is located at . It has an average elevation of 233 metres (764 feet). It is located at a distance of 24 km from its district headquarters

Jalandhar Jalandhar () is a city in the state of Punjab, India, Punjab in India. With a considerable population, it ranks as the List of cities in Punjab and Chandigarh by population, third most-populous city in the state and is the largest city in the ...

and approximately 26 km from

Hoshiarpur Hoshiarpur () is a city and a Municipal corporations in India, municipal corporation in Hoshiarpur district in the Doaba region of the Indian state of Punjab, India, Punjab. It was founded, according to tradition, during the early part of the ...

. The nearest hill station is

Dharamshala Dharamshala (, ; also spelled Dharamsala) is a town in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It serves as the winter capital of the state and the administrative headquarters of the Kangra district since 1855. The town also hosts the Tibeta ...

which is the headquarters of the

Dalai Lama The Dalai Lama (, ; ) is the head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. The term is part of the full title "Holiness Knowing Everything Vajradhara Dalai Lama" (圣识一切瓦齐尔达喇达赖喇嘛) given by Altan Khan, the first Shu ...

. Another hill-station around Adampur is

McLeodganj McLeod Ganj or McLeodganj (pronounced ) is a suburb of Dharamshala, in the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh, India. It is known as "Little Lhasa" or "Dhasa" as the Tibetan government-in-exile is headquartered here and there is a significant p ...

. The Main Bazaar is the main market and one of the best areas to live in and around the town. It is situated in the center of

and its two main cities,

and

. The clock tower of Adampur and Punjab Khadi Mandal are some of the oldest buildings of this town. The Khadi Bhandar was inaugurated by

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2October 186930January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalism, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethics, political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful Indian ...

. The

Adampur Air Force Station Adampur Airport , is a domestic airport and an Indian Air Force base serving the cities of Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur in Punjab, India. It is located from Adampur town in Jalandhar district, from Jalandhar and from Hoshiarpur, and is situate ...

was built by the British in the early 1900s and is the second largest Air Force base in India. The domestic airport of Jalandhar is also situated at Adampur. The railway line which runs through Adampur was constructed by the British in 1902. Adampur train station was built, which was later renamed Khurdpur due to the close proximity of the Air Force base.

Demographics

As of the 2011 India

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, the Adampur Municipal Council has population of 20,922 of which 11,152 are males while 9,770 are females as per report released by Census India 2011. Adampur has an average literacy rate of 87.98%, higher than the national average of 75.84%. 12% of the population is under 6 years of age. The scheduled caste population is 47.30% The Virdi family of the Ramgarhia community are one of the oldest serving families in Adampur tracing their settlement into the town from the 1700s.

Legislative Setup

The city is part of the Adampur legislative assembly constituency.

Sukhwinder Singh Kotli Sukhwinder Singh Kotli is an Indian politician representing the Adampur, Punjab Assembly constituency in the Punjab Legislative Assembly. He is a member of the Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially t ...

of Congress is the current MLA from this seat. The town comes under the Jalandhar parliamentary constituency, which is currently represented by

Sushil Kumar Rinku Sushil Kumar Rinku (born 5 June 1975) is an Indian politician and a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He was a member of parliament from the Jalandhar constituency after winning in 2023 Jalandhar by-election but in 2024 he lost to Congre ...

of Aam Aadmi Party.

References

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Jalandhar district
{{Indian Air Force Cities and towns in Jalandhar district

Geography

Demographics

Legislative Setup

See also

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