Manesar is a
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and
municipal corporation
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Gurugram City in the
Gurugram district
Gurgaon district, officially known as Gurugram district, is one of the 22 districts of Haryana in northern India. The city of Gurgaon is the administrative headquarters of the district. The population is 1,514,432. It is one of the southern distr ...
of the state of
Haryana
Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...
,
India
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and a part of the
National Capital Region
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(NCR) of
Delhi
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. It is an industrial hub.
Its proximity to the burgeoning city of
Gurugram
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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
Gurugram
Gurgaon (pronunciation: ¡ÊŠÉ½É¡Ã£Ëw, officially named Gurugram (pronunciation: ¡ÊŠÉ¾ÊŠÉ¡É¾aËm, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest of the nationa ...
. Manesar is from
Indira Gandhi International Airport
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and is located on
National Highway 48
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, making it well connected with
New Delhi
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,
Gurugram
Gurgaon (pronunciation: ¡ÊŠÉ½É¡Ã£Ëw, officially named Gurugram (pronunciation: ¡ÊŠÉ¾ÊŠÉ¡É¾aËm, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest of the nationa ...
,
Rewari
Rewari is a city and a Municipal Council in Rewari district in the Indian state of Haryana. King of Rewari is Rao Onkar Singh.It is located in south-west Haryana around 82 km from Delhi ,
Dharuhera (Rewari),
Jaipur
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,
Ahmedabad
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and
Surat
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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
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. 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
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, 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
The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India. The terms are recognized in the Constitution of India and the groups are designa ...
population was 1,774. Manesar had 5074 households in 2011.
Industrial Model Township
Manesar is part of the
Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project (DMIC) on the
Western Dedicated Freight Corridor
The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor or Western DFC is a 1,506 km long, under-construction broad gauge freight corridor in India. It will connect Dadri in Uttar Pradesh (near Delhi) with Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra. ...
(WDFC) and is also located in the influence zone of the
Amritsar Delhi Kolkata Industrial Corridor
Amritsar (), historically also known as RÄmdÄspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultural, transportation and economic centre, located in the Majha r ...
(ADKIC) on the
Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor
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(EDFC).
Industrial Model Township, Manesar, (IMT Manesar) is a large industrial area that forms part of the DMIC. There are several large multinational companies, such as
Maruti Suzuki
Maruti Suzuki India Limited, formerly known as Maruti Udyog Limited, is an Indian automobile industry, automobile manufacturer, based in New Delhi. It was founded in 1981 and owned by the Government of India until 2003, when it was sold to the ...
,
Jaquar
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, and
Toshiba
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Eco City.
Aadhar
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's national
Data Center
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is also located here. Also
Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs under
Ministry of Corporate Affairs
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is located here,
[Haryana Review 2013](_blank)
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India Today International
Volume 5, Issues 1-12, Page 78.
Attempts by the Government of Haryana
The Government of Haryana, also known as the State Government of Haryana, or locally as the State Government, is the supreme governing authority of the Indian state of Haryana and its 22 districts. It consists of an executive, ceremonially led ...
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
Nakhrola is a village in the Gurgaon mandal, of Gurgaon District in the state of Haryana in India. it is an Ahir majority village. The population of Nakhrola is 6000 people and it is an agricultural area.
Litigation on land
HSIIDC sent notices o ...
and Naurangpur
Naurangpur is a village in Gurgaon Mandal, Gurgaon District, Haryana state, India. It is 2.940 km far from the city of Gurgaon and 252 km far from the state capital of Chandigarh. It has a population of about 3602 persons living in arou ...
) at a price set by the Punjab and Haryana High Court
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.
Manesar-Gurgaon land scam
On 17 September 2015, the Central Bureau of Investigation
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(CBI) registered a First Information Report
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under various sections of the Indian Penal Code
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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, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, 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 Supreme Court of India
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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
Proposal for new city
In 2018, the Chief Minister, Manohar Lal Khattar
Manohar Lal Khattar (born 05 May 1954) is an Indian politician serving as the 10th and current chief minister of Haryana. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a former RSS pracharak. He represents Karnal constituency in Haryana ...
, 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
Manohar Lal Khattar (born 05 May 1954) is an Indian politician serving as the 10th and current chief minister of Haryana. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a former RSS pracharak. He represents Karnal constituency in Haryana ...
announced the creation of a new municipal corporation
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in Manesar. In December 2020, the Haryana Government approved the formation of the Manesar Municipal Corporation
Manesar Municipal Corporation is the municipal corporation governing the Indian city of Manesar. New Gurugram disst Gurugram The municipal corporation mechanism in India was introduced during British rule with the formation of a municipal corpo ...
in a cabinet meeting.
Connectivity
Manesar lies on National Highway 48 and is served by many local buses and states Roadways buses and trains plying on this route. The nearest railway station is Ghari Harsaru; a major station is at Gurgaon.
Education
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.
Quarantine site
In January 2020, the Indian Army
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set up a quarantine camp in Manesar for suspected cases of Coronavirus disease 2019
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. 300 Indian students airlifted from Wuhan
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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:
Riello Power India Pvt Ltd
*Alcatel-Lucent
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* Alere Inc.
* Baxter
*BorgWarner
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* Denso Haryana
* Hero MotoCorp
* Honda Motorcycle & Scooters India
*Johnson Matthey
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History Early years
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*Keysight Technologies
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*Mankind Pharma
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*Maruti Suzuki
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*Samsung
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*Pfizer
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References
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