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Muradnagar is a city and a
municipal board
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in Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It lies about from Ghaziabad
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, the district headquarters, and from Delhi
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.
Muradnagar is a part of Delhi–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System
The Delhi–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System, also known as Delhi–Meerut RRTS and colloquially Rapid Rail, is a partially operational -long Higher-speed rail, rapid Rail transport, rail that will connect the National Capital Region (NCR) ...
.
Geography
Muradnagar is located at .Boundaries
Muradnagar lies on theDelhi
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-Mussoorie
Mussoorie () is a hill station and a municipal board, in Dehradun city in the Dehradun district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is about from the state capital of Dehradun and north of the national capital of New Delhi. The hil ...
National Highway ( NH-58). Parallel to this road runs the Delhi
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-Saharanpur
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Saharanpur city's name was given after the Sain ...
section of the Northern Railway. A metalled road going to Hapur
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originates from the city. Muradnagar railway station is in between Meerut
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and Ghaziabad
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stations. Most of the major express trains as well as all general passenger trains
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from Delhi
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to Meerut-Haridwar
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The city is s ...
-Dehradun
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route stop at this railway station.
Demographics
India census, According to the final data, of Muradnagar in Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation had a population of 408,643 and a sex ratio of 940 females per 1060 males. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Muradnagar had high literacy rate of 90.75% compare to Ghaziabad because Ghaziabad had a literacy rate of 84.78% and also greater than the national average of 60.5%. Male literacy is 96%, and Female literacy is 85%. 15.67% of the population was under the age of 6 years. Muradnagar have having a low dynamics with 91.50% Hindus and 5.16% are Muslims. Community present areJats
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is largest community in Muradnagar, Brahmins
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is second largest community in Muradnagar, SC/STs is third largest community in Muradnagar, Yadav
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s is fourth, Rajput
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s, Baniyas, Gujjar
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s, Muslim
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s, Prajapati
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etc. community population around 138,939 Jats
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, 49,050 Brahmin
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s including 34,050 Tyagi
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s, 41,000 SC/ST Castes, 37,950 Yadav
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s, 21,085 Muslim
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s, 20,432 Rajput
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s, 16,754 Baniyas, 13,893 Gujars, 13,076 (Prajapati
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, saini
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, bhumihar
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) etc. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 10.68% and 0.12% of the population respectively.
Khadiboli
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is the most spoken language with 65.52 percent people speak Khadiboli
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in Muradnagar. Hindi
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language is official language and largest population 30.24 percent spoke Hindi
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. Other languages such as Urdu
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and Punjabi
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, are spoken by a minority. There is a smattering of speakers of other languages due to Muradnagar is near to Ghaziabad's position in the Delhi metro area.
Rail
Delhi–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System
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known as Delhi-Meerut RRTS is an 82.15 km (51.05 mi) long under-construction semi-high speed rail connecting Delhi, Ghaziabad, and Meerut. It is partly operational, with its priority section from Sahibabad to Muradnagar opened to public on 20 October 2023.
Muradnagar RRTS Station
Murad Nagar RRTS station is an elevated RRTS station. This serves as a RRTS station for higher-speed trains on theDelhi–Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System
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that reaches speeds of upto 180 km/h.
After the trial run of Duhai - Meerut South RRTS stretch was commissioned successfully, this RRTS station was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi
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on March 6, 2024 via video conferencing
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from Kolkata
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, and began its operations along with the existing 17-km Sahibabad-Duhai stretch of the Delhi–Meerut RRTS from March 7, 2024.
References
{{Ghaziabad district Cities and towns in Ghaziabad district, India