Khatauli is a city and
nagar palika in
Muzaffarnagar district in the Indian state of
Uttar Pradesh. A part of
National Capital Region, the town is situated 100 km away from the national capital
New Delhi.
Khatauli lies on the
National Highway 58 which is an important route for trade and commerce and also a main route for the many Hindu pilgrim places like
Haridwar,
Rishikesh
Rishikesh, also spelt as Hrishikesh, is a city near Dehradun in Dehradun district of the Indian state Uttarakhand. It is situated on the right bank of the Ganges River and is a pilgrimage town for Hindus, with ancient sages and saints meditati ...
,
Kedarnath,
Badrinath and many hill stations like
Dehradun
Dehradun () is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and is governed by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, with the Uttarakhand Legislative As ...
,
Mussoorie, and
Chopta. Khatauli was declared as
Tehsil in 2007. The town lies on Delhi - Saharanpur (via Meerut) railway route.
Khatauli came into news because of a train accident on 19 August 2017 caused by human negligence. As many as 14 coaches of the Puri Haridwar Kalinga Utkal Express went off track.
History
Khatauli is listed in the
Ain-i-Akbari
The ''Ain-i-Akbari'' ( fa, ) or the "Administration of Akbar", is a 16th-century detailed document recording the administration of the Mughal Empire under Emperor Akbar, written by his court historian, Abu'l Fazl in the Persian language. It for ...
as a
pargana
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under the
sarkar of
Saharanpur
Saharanpur is a city and a municipal corporation in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is also the administrative headquarters of Saharanpur district.
Saharanpur city's name was given after the Saint Shah Haroon Chishti.
Saharanpur is declared as on ...
, producing a revenue of 3,624,588
dams for the imperial treasury and supplying a force of 300 infantry and 40 cavalry.
Attractions
Khatauli's Triveni
sugar mill
A sugar cane mill is a factory that processes sugar cane to produce raw or white sugar.
The term is also used to refer to the equipment that crushes the sticks of sugar cane to extract the juice.
Processing
There are a number of steps in pro ...
is the largest in Asia in terms of production and storage capacity. The mill has been operational since 1933. Khatauli is a large, rural town and offers some tourist attractions. Khatauli's position on the banks of the upper
Ganga
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canal serves as the area's main tourist attraction. Khatauli is also known for its combination of cultural influences from the Hindu, Muslim, Jain, Christian and Sikh religions.
There are nine Jain temples in the town. There is also a PG College named KK Jain PG College. Many students complete their higher education and gain respective degrees in several fields every year.
Demographics
As per the
2011 census, Khatauli municipality had a population of 4,33,910 and the urban agglomeration had a population of 1,04,108. The municipality had a
sex ratio of 898 females per 1,000 males and 15% of the population were under six years old. Effective literacy was 73%; male literacy was 83% and female literacy was 63%.
The tehsil has 70%
Hindu
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s, 25%
Muslim
Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...
s,4%
Sikh
Sikhs ( or ; pa, ਸਿੱਖ, ' ) are people who adhere to Sikhism, Sikhism (Sikhi), a Monotheism, monotheistic religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Gu ...
s, 0.2%
Christians and 0.8%
Jains.
Khatauli is governed by a municipal council. The city's population is 4,33,910; the urban population is 1,04,108, of which 54,756 are males and 49,352 are females. The majority of the population speaks
Hindi.
Voting: There are approximately 50,000
Dalits in Khatauli assembly seat.
[Singh, Kanwardeep & Rai, Sandeep (3 December 2022)]
"Uttar Pradesh: Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad campaigns for RLD-SP"
''The Times of India''.
See also
*
2017 Khatauli train derailment
On 19 August 2017, the Kalinga Utkal Express train derailed near Khatauli in Muzaffarnagar district of Uttar Pradesh, India causing fatalities: 23 people were killed and 156 others were injured. This accident was the fourth major passenger train ...
References
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Villages in Muzaffarnagar district