Gautam Buddha Nagar district is a

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Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...

, named after

Gautama Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha (),* * * was a śramaṇa, wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist lege ...

. It is a part of Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) and is divided into 3 sub-divisions (Tehsils) of Noida, Dadri and Jewar.

Greater Noida Greater Noida is a planned city located in the Gautam Buddha Nagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city was created as an extension of the area under the ''UP Industrial Area Development Act, of 1976''. Situated southeast ...

is the administrative headquarters of Gautam Buddha Nagar district.

Noida Noida (), short for New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (ISO: ), is a city located in Gautam Buddha Nagar district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. As per provisional reports of Census of India, the population of Noida in 2011 was ...

Dadri Dadri is a town and a municipal board in Gautam Buddha Nagar District in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Noida, Dadri and Jewar are the 3 sub-divisions of GB Nagar district, each headed by a SDM. History Dadri was founded by a Bha ...

Jewar Jewar is a town and a nagar panchayat in Gautam Buddha Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Noida, Dadri and Jewar are the 3 sub-divisions of GB Nagar district, each headed by a SDM. History The ancient name of the town wa ...

YEIDA city "Yamuna City", is a new planned city initiative by the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) and the third in the Gautam Budh Nagar district, following Noida and Greater Noida. It is situated on a 25,000-hectare expanse alon ...

and

Dankaur Dankaur is a town and a nagar panchayat in Gautam Buddha Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated on Yamuna Expressway, south of Greater Noida. History Before 1997, Dankaur and Jewar were parts of the Bulandshahr dis ...

fall under this district.

History

Gautam Buddha Nagar (GBN) district was formed on 9 June 1997 under the leadership of Mayawati government by carving out the portions of

Ghaziabad district Ghaziabad district () is a largely suburban district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. It is also a core part of the National Capital Region. The city of Ghaziabad is the administrative headquarters of the district. This district is ...

and

Bulandshahr district Bulandshahr district (also spelled Bulandshahar) is a district in the Meerut region in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), situated between the Ganga and Yamuna rivers. It is a part of the National Capital Region of India, and Bulandsh ...

and

Bisrakh Bisrakh Jalalpur is a village near Kisan Chowk in Greater Noida (West), India. It is a part of Gautam Buddha Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh state. This village is said to be the birthplace of the king Ravana, who ruled Lanka in the epic Rama ...

blocks carved out of Ghaziabad, while

and

blocks have been carved out of Bulandshahr. People from this land were actively associated with the

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Sukhdev Sukhdev Thapar (15 May 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an Indian freedom fighter who fought against the British government for Indian independence. He was a member of the '' Hindustan Socialist Republican Association'' (HSRA), and was executed al ...

and

Chandra Shekhar Azad Chandra Shekhar Sitaram Tiwari (23 July 1906 – 27 February 1931), popularly known as Chandra Shekhar Azad, was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Rep ...

used Nalgadha village (Sector-145, Noida) presently situated on the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway to hide during the freedom struggle. They planned 1929 bomb attack on the

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(presently known as

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) from Nalgadha village. The area occupied by this district has roots in

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, as Bisrakh village in

, which is believed to be the birthplace of

Ravana According to the Mahakavya, Hindu epic, ''Ramayana'', Ravana was a kingJustin W. Henry, ''Ravana's Kingdom: The Ramayana and Sri Lankan History from Below'', Oxford University Press, p.3 of the island of Lanka, in which he is the chief antag ...

's father,

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Rishi lies in this land. In

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, Dankaur was the

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's ashram, where

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s and

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s took their training.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census of India, Gautam Buddha Nagar has a

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of 1,648,115. It is ranked 294th out of a total of

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Indian districts in terms of population. Gautam Buddha Nagar has a population density of . The female literacy stands at 72.78%, much higher than national average of 65.46%. 59.12% of the population lived in urban areas. Scheduled Castes make up 13.11% of the population.

Language

At the time of the 2011 census, 92.96% of the population spoke

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, 1.29%

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

, 1.10%

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, 0.97%

Punjabi Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to: * Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan * Punjabi language * Punjabis, Punjabi people * Punjabi dialects and languages Punjabi may also refer to: * Punjabi (horse), a ...

and 0.93%

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as their first language.

Administration

General administration

The Gautam Buddha Nagar district is headed by a

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(DM), usually an IAS officer. The district is divided into 3 sub-divisions, each headed by a

Sub-Divisional Magistrate A sub-divisional magistrate, also known as assistant collector, sub collector, revenue divisional officer, or assistant commissioner, is the administrative head of a sub-division in an Indian district, exercising executive, revenue, and magist ...

(SDM).

Police administration

On 14 January 2020, the

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declared Gautam Buddha Nagar district as a Police Commissionerate (along with the

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district). These two Commissionerates were the first to be created in the state of

. The Gautam Buddha Nagar Commissionerate is headed by a police

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, who is an Inspector-General (IG) rank official, assisted by two Additional Commissioners — one each for law and order, and crime and headquarters — who are of Deputy Inspector General (DIG) rank. Its first and current Commissioner is Alok Singh, a 1995-batch IPS officer (RR). These top three officials are reported to by seven deputy commissioners of the SP rank, nine additional deputy commissioner of police and 17 assistant commissioners of police of the deputy SP rank. The district is divided into three zones – Noida, Central Noida and Greater Noida - consisting of 29 police stations. Zone One is Noida, comprising 10 stations of Sector 20, Sector 24, Sector 39, Sector 58, Sector 49, Expressway and Women's police station. Zone Two, Central Noida, comprising parts of Noida, Greater Noida, and Greater Noida West, has nine stations – Phase 2, Phase 3, Bisrakh, Ecotech 3, Surajpur and Badalpur. Zone Three, Greater Noida, has nine police stations — Sector Beta 2, Knowledge Park, Site V, Dadri, Jarcha, Dankaur, Rabupura, Ecotech 1 and Jewar. As of 14 January 2020, Gautam Buddha Nagar had 3,869 police personnel — 42 inspectors, 459 sub-inspectors, 972 head constables and 2,396 constables.

Politics

Gautam Buddha Nagar district has three assembly seats i.e.

and

. These three assembly seats of GB Nagar district along with

Sikandrabad Sikandrabad is a village and a municipal board, just outside of Bulandshahr, Bulandshahr city in Bulandshahr district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Uttar Pradesh. It is part of the Delhi NCR region. Sikandrabad tehsil i ...

and

Khurja Khurja is a city (and a municipal board) in Bulandshahr district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated around 20 km from Bulandshahr and 85 km from Delhi. Khurja supplies a large portion of th ...

assembly seats of

fall under the

Gautam Buddha Nagar Gautam Buddha Nagar district is a district of Uttar Pradesh, named after Gautama Buddha. It is a part of Delhi National Capital Region (NCR) and is divided into 3 sub-divisions (Tehsils) of Noida, Dadri and Jewar. Greater Noida is the administ ...

Lok Sabha constituency.

Villages

* Chipyana BuzurgChipyana development Authority
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Places of interest

Buddh International Circuit The Buddh International Circuit is an Indian motor racing circuit situated in Jaypee Sports City, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The track shares its name with Gautama Buddha, as does the Gautam Buddha Nagar district, district of its location. ...

The Great India Place The Great India Place is a shopping mall in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is popularly known as GIP Mall. It is one of the largest malls in the country. The mall features a wide selection of national and international retail outlets. This gr ...

* Worlds of Wonder * DLF Mall of India * Gautam Buddha University * Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal and Green Garden

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gautam Buddha Nagar Meerut division Districts of Uttar Pradesh