Malpura is a town with

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Tonk district Tonk district is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The city of Tonk is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district is bounded on the north by Jaipur district, on the east by Sawai Madhopur district, on ...

in the

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. Malpura is known for its Dadabadi, built by the Khartargach Sect of Shewtambar Jain in memory of 3rd Dada Gurudev Shri Jinkushalsurishwarji.Malpura is popular visiting palace in

Geography

Malpura is located at . It has an average elevation of 132

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s (401

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). Distance from Jaipur 90 km, Malpura is also Known for Avikanagar – 4 km from Malpura. It is famous for the

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(CSWRI).

Transport

Malpura is situated on by a two-lane state Highway (SH-12) Jaipur-Malpura - Kekri - Bhilwara. Also on State Highway (37A) Diggi- Malpura- Todaraisingh- Chhan. Malpura is well connected by Road Transport. State Roadways buses run regularly here. Buses to Jaipur, Ajmer, Bhilwara, Tonk, Kekri, Shahpura are available from here. The erstwhile

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railway line from Jaipur to Todaraisingh via Renwal-Phagi-Diggi-Malpura was functional. The line used to had regular train service from 1892 to 1992. In 1992 the

railway tracks was uprooted for gauge conversion to

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. The Railway had not handled the track for the future

train services. Hence currently Malpura is not connected by Rail network since 1992 and thus the nearest Railway Station is Sanganer, from Jaipur, in Jaipur District And Kishangarh, from Ajmer in Ajmer District. Jaipur international Airport is 70 km from Malpura.

Notable sights

* Onn mataji temple. *

Shri Kalyan Temple Shri Kalyan Temple also Knows as Diggi Kalyan , Shri ji is a temple in Diggi, a town in Malpura tehsil, Tonk district, Rajasthan. Kalyan ji is incarnation of lord Vishnu. The temple was supposedly built by King Digva 5600 years ago. History ...

Diggi - a famous temple which is 15 km from Malpura. Here a very ancient temple of god Kalyan (Vishnu) built by king Digva is present. *Malpura

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is headed by Smt. Sonia Manish Soni * Gunat Mata Temple

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* Bisalpur Dam - situated 48 km from Malpura. It is one of the important dams project in Rajasthan built across Banas river. * Sindholiya temple * Lamba harisingh *Beriya Balaji * Avikanagar. It is the largest sheep research centre of India located 5 km from Malpura along the Jaipur road. ''Kendriya Vidyalaya Avikanagar'' from 1st to 12th standard and'' Government Secondary School Avikanagar ''from 6th to 10th standard are also situated in the CSWRI Avikanagar campus. The director of CSWRI Avikanagar is Dr S.M.K Naqvi, who is the National fellow of National agricultural research system. He is known for his contribution in the field of small ruminant research. *Ghati Balaji * Malpura is famous for its Jain Dadabadi and Adinath Jain temple. * An important temple, Malpura dadabadi of Dada Jinkushalsuriji is there. *It has one Government hospital & many private hospital such as Rekha Devi Memorial Hospital and a nursing college. *

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founder late Shri

Karpoor Chandra Kulish Karpoor Chandra Kulish (20 March 1926 – 17 January 2006) was the founder of Rajasthan Patrika, a Hindi language newspaper of Rajasthan, India. Born in Jainism, Jain family, State Rajasthan Soda village in Malpura tehsil in Tonk district in 1 ...

is from nearby

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village. *⌊ Sindoliya Mataji Ramphool singh⌉

Villages in Malpura Mandal

Atoli, Awada, Barol, Chabrana, Chainpura, Chandsen, Chanvanndia, Desma, Devel, Dhola Ka Kheda, Dholi, Diggi, Dungri Kala, Ganwer, Hathgi, Indoli, Jhadali, Kacholia, Kadila, Kalmanda, Kantoli, Kirawal, Kurad, Lambaharising, Lawa, Malikpur, Morla, Bagri, Nagar, Pachewar, Parli, Rajpura, Rendiliya, Sindoliya, Sitarampura, Soda, Bambori, Pratppura, Ajmeri, Bawari, Sitarampura, Sodabawari, Tilanjoo, Tordi, Shree Gopalpura, Kalmanda, Malooni * Soda village is famous for being first internet panchayat in India.

Chhavi Rajawat Chhavi Rajawat was the Sarpanch of her village Soda, from Jaipur. Though holding an elected post, Chhavi is not affiliated to any political party. The Panchayats are officially supposed to be non-partisan and Panchayat elected representatives ...

is the youngest women sarpanch of her village soda. Soda is also the birthplace of Shri Ramcharan Ji Maharaj. * Diggi is famous for ancient "Shri Kalyandhani Mandir". * Dhola Ka Kheda village have an ancient hindu temple called "Gunat Mata Mandir" * Kirawal village Have a temple the goddess ma sati * Tordi village have a great dam known as Tordi sagar which made in 1887 The Dam is 1772 meter length and 14.2 meter height * Chainpura Village have a great temple of veer Teja Ji.

References

{{Tonk district Cities and towns in Tonk district