Manesar is a

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and

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, known as New gurgaon city in the Gurugram district of the state of

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and a part of the National Capital Region (NCR) of

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. It is an Industrial Model Township home to factories and industrial activity from

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s. Its proximity to the burgeoning city of

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has in recent years caused its character and demographics to change dramatically. It has many factories, offices, hotels, IT parks and educational institutes. There are several sightseeing spots around the area, some overlapping with

. Manesar is from

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and is located on National Highway 48, making it well connected with

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and

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Etymology

Manesar gets its name from the

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, in which the word "manesar" means the "lord of brain or wisdom" i.e. the Lord

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History

Earlier Manesar was a sleepy village of about 1000 dwellings on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, then numbered as NH-8. Since the late 1990s, it has been transformed into a booming town. Its growth has been helped by government's drive to move out factories from Delhi as well as the growth of Gurgaon city and proximity to Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (approximately 40 minutes). Farmers have become millionaires or multi-millionaires by selling their lands.

Demographics

As of 2011 Indian Census, the Manesar census town had a total population of 23,448, of which 14,381 were males and 9,067 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 3,382. The total number of literates in Manesar was 18,105, which constituted 77.2% of the population with male literacy of 83.2% and female literacy of 67.8%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Manesar was 90.2%, of which male literacy rate was 95.4% and female literacy rate was 81.6%. The Scheduled Castes population was 1,774. Manesar had 5074 households in 2011.

Industrial Model Township

Manesar was planned in 1980's as Industrial Model Township(IMT) during formation of Maruti Udyog Ltd under Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation which is under Haryana Government. Land acquisition proceedings for development of IMT Manesar were initiated in 1994–1995. Initial allotments of industrial plots to Maruti Vendors were made in 1997,and,other allotments commenced in 1999. Over the years,HSIIDC has allotted more than 2,100 plots for setting up of industrial ventures by entrepreneurs. There are several large multinational companies, such as

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, Jaquar, JBM Auto and

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Eco City. Aadhar's national

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is also located here. Also Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs under

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is located here,Haryana Review 2013
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Volume 5, Issues 1-12, Page 78. In 2023, Manesar had 2200 industrial manufacturing units, which employee 300,000 employees including 200,000 living within Manesar and remaining commute daily from outside. Some of the large manufacturing units include Maruti and Honda. Attempts by the Government of Haryana to acquire additional land for expansion of the IMT development from 2011 led to numerous protests and legal challenges from farmers and other residents. These were resolved in 2014 when it bought a total of from three villages (Manesar, Nakhrola and Naurangpur) at a price set by the

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Manesar-Gurgaon land scam

On 17 September 2015, the

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(CBI) registered a First Information Report under various sections of the

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relating to forgery, cheating and criminal conspiracy. These were in connection with alleged irregularities involving land acquisitions at IMT Manesar. Subsequently, in 2018, the former Haryana Chief Minister,

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, together with real estate companies, officials of the state government's department of town and country planning and bureaucrats who worked with Hooda while he was Chief Minister were charged. The scam had allegedly resulted in a 15 billion INR loss to farmers in Manesar and the adjoining villages of Naurangpur and Lakhnoula whose land, amounting to , had been threatened with government purchase for "public purpose". Faced with the threat of government acquisition, farmers sold at knock-down prices, averaging 25 percent of market value, to real estate developers. The Hooda government then released the land from the acquisition threat, thus favouring the developers. One of the beneficiary of the scam was Hooda's nephew, Sukhwinder, whose company was given change of land use (CLU) permission for 52 acres land on the same day the government acquisition process had lapsed for the want of release of funds, while at the same time CLU was denied to two other unrelated applicants. The

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cancelled the acquisition and grant of land to the developers and directed the CBI to inquire further. The government was instructed to "recover every single pie". Court returned the land to Haryana government. Land would not be returned to the landholders more than the prevailing price. The builders will not be allowed to recover any money they paid to land owners as the deal was done to benefit them and "middlemen". The court said:

Administration

Manesar municipal corporation and Manesar

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were established in 2020. In 2023, Manesar municipal area spread over 20 km includes 29 villages.

Proposal for new city

In 2018, the Chief Minister, Manohar Lal Khattar, announced a new city that would adjoin Gurgaon and incorporate an area from Manesar towards Rewari, and also the area around Pataudi. The new city is likely to be spread across at least 50,000 hectares, which is larger than Chandigarh (11,400 hectares) but smaller than Gurgaon (73,200 hectares).

Proposal of a new municipal corporation

In November 2020, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced the creation of a new

in Manesar. In December 2020, the Haryana Government approved the formation of the Manesar Municipal Corporation in a cabinet meeting.

Transport & connectivity

Manesar lies on Delhi-Jaipur NH48, Western Peripheral Expressway (WPE), and Dwarka Expressway.

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(HORC), other nearest railway station is Garhi Harsaru railway station and Gurgaon railway station is nearest major station. Manesar is served by many local buses and Haryana Roadways states buses.

Education

The first training center of

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(NSG), commonly known as Black Cat commandos - a counter-terrorism unit of India, was opened in Manesar which also has a National Bomb Data center. National Brain Research Centre (NBR ) is also at Manesar. There are many government and private schools, the former being managed by the Government of Haryana through the Haryana Board of School Education (HBSE).

Tourism

The Heritage Transport Museum is situated on a plot at Tauru Gurgaon, near Manesar. A built-up area of over spread over four floors houses the exhibition galleries, library and reference centre, conference rooms, mini auditorium, the museum shop, and a restaurant facility.

Military Significance

The operations and training headquarters of the National Security Guards is located in Manesar near NH 48.

Quarantine site

In January 2020, the

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set up a quarantine camp in Manesar for suspected cases of

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. 300 Indian students airlifted from

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district of China were quarantined and observed for 14 days, after which those with no symptoms were allowed to go home.

Economy

Some of the industrial units functioning in Manesar are:
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References

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