Bazpur, or Bajpur, is a city and a

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Udham Singh Nagar district Udham Singh Nagar is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. Rudrapur is the district headquarter. The district consists of nine Tehsils named Bajpur, Gadarpur, Jaspur, Kashipur, Khatima, Kichha, Nanakmatta, Rudrapur, Sitarg ...

in the state of

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. Bazpur is well connected with the industrial city of Rudrapur and the historical city of Kashipur. Bazpur is nearest city to Nainital. It is an affluent town, mainly due to large agricultural estates. It was initially, like most of the area which forms present day Udham Singh Nagar District, a part of the

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, and was gradually transformed into

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by migrants from

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. Most of the early settlers were those rendered homeless by the

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in 1947. India's first co-operative

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went into production in Bazpur on 16 February 1959.

History

It was established in early in 17th century, by Chand king, Lakshmi Chand (1597–1621), and named after a former

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Chand king, Baz Bahadur. Later, when Bazpur was fully jungle area the people of Punjab who were rendering homeless founded this area and the founder was Shri Banta Ram who own more than half of the land of Bazpur legally. He also gave some other people land from free of cost who were rendering homeless in the area in that time. Also some Prominent names of the area like Deep Chand (Azad), Rana Gurjit (M.L.A of kapurthala) Daljit Singh Goraya and there family presently lives here from very long time and have a well known maintained name and personality in the area. Bazpur is the location of the first co-operative sugar mill in India, which was dedicated to the nation by Jawahar Lal Nehru. It was the first effort of establishment of a sugar factory in the co-operative sector, which went into production on 16 February 1959.

Demographics

, Bazpur had a population of 21,782. Males constitute 55% of the population and females 45%. Bazpur has an average literacy rate of 66%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 60% of the males and 40% of females literate. 14% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Education

In 2024 Bazpur is developing into a prominent education hub with some world class branded schools in the region. Some of them are: *Riverdale International *St. Nila Carmel School *St Mary's School *Sri Dashmesh School Some other educational institutes also include: *Genius Global Academy *Gyandeep Global School * D.A.V Public school

Nearby Places of interest

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* Kashipur *

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Nainital Nainital (Kumaoni language, Kumaoni: ''Naintāl''; ) is a town and headquarters of Nainital district of Kumaon division, Uttarakhand, India. It is the judicial capital of Uttarakhand, the Uttarakhand High Court, High Court of the state being ...

* Rampur *

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References

{{Municipalities of Uttarakhand Cities and towns in Udham Singh Nagar district