Malout is a

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, just outside of Muktsar Sahib city in the Muktsar district of the

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n state of

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. It is in the southern Punjab "cotton belt", where production per kilometer is one of the highest in

. Malout is on NH-354 and NH-9 and NH-7, which connects Fazilka to

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. The boundaries of

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and

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are and , respectively, from the town. Malout is from the border with

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, and has been affected by military incidents. Malout is also well known for the MIMIT college in which students from all over India comes to pursue UG and PG degrees.

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(MIMIT), A Government Engineering and Management College in Malout, affiliated to I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, and approved by

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History

Bhatti Rajputs founded a fort Malout here. Before Partition 1947, it was the village Of Muslim Bhatti Rajputs. The Britishers set up a base there to import and export glucose which Indians call normally mal to Karachi. At that time this city was very famous as Mal out centre. Malout was founded 400–500 years ago, and the origin of its name is uncertain. In 1917, the British government established the

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–

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railway line; the Malout railway station was built the following year. The town was incorporated on 19 March 1920. A seven-member committee purchased land, which was divided into shopping and residential areas. On 17 November 1921, Firozpur district commissioner J. C. Koldsitrimiu established a water-storage and -purification tank system in Malout.

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, visited the region that day and the system was named in his honour. Malout began growing, and the town had a post office,

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, guest house and cemetery by the end of 1940. With cotton producers and the agricultural machinery industry, Malout and its nearby villages were known as the cotton capital of Punjab.

Climate

The region's temperature varies widely by season. Summer temperatures reach , and winter temperatures fall to . The western

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in the north and the

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in the south and southwest primarily determine the climate. The south-western monsoon brings nearly 70 percent of the annual rainfall from June to September. Most of the district has an arid (tropic) moisture regime, according to soil-classification criteria. Soil-moisture computations using the Newhall mathematical model indicate that the region has a "weak aridic" moisture regime (Van Wambeke, 1985).

Political representation

Baljit Kaur, MLA of Malout Assembly Constituency, was elected in 2022.

Commerce and industry

Municipal committee does not own any land or any place but despite than committee asks for annual rent of the shops near by area shops of Municipal committee. Legally committee has no right to ask any rent against any shop.

Notable people

Rohit Bansal Rohit Bansal is an Indian entrepreneur, co-founder and COO of e-commerce company Snapdeal. Early life Bansal was born in Malout, Punjab India. He completed his school education at Delhi Public School (DPS) New Delhi and got his bachelor's ...

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and co-founder of

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* Kamalpreet Kaur, Indian Athlete

References

{{Muktsar district Cities and towns in Sri Muktsar Sahib district