Mawana is a city in

Meerut district Meerut district, is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Meerut is the district headquarters. Meerut district is also a part of the Meerut division. The administrative head of district of Meerut is a District Magistrate w ...

in the

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. It is 26 km from the district headquarters

Meerut Meerut (, IAST: ''Meraṭh'') is a city in Meerut district of the western part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city lies northeast of the national capital New Delhi, within the National Capital Region and west of the state capital ...

. Its name comes from the word "Muhana" which means gateway. It is supposed to be the Muhana of Hastinapur kingdom.

Hastinapur Hastinapur is a city in the Meerut district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ''Hastinapura'', described in Hindu texts such as the ''Mahabharata'' and the Puranas as the capital of the Kuru Kingdom, is also mentioned in ancient Jain tex ...

is a

Mahabharata The ''Mahābhārata'' ( ; sa, महाभारतम्, ', ) is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India in Hinduism, the other being the ''Rāmāyaṇa''. It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the Kuruk ...

period town situated 9 km from the city center.

Geography

The river

Ganga The Ganges ( ) (in India: Ganga ( ); in Bangladesh: Padma ( )). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river to which India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China are the riparian states." is ...

is 10 km from Mawana. NH-34 joints

to Mawana then Mawana to

Bijnor Bijnor is a city and a municipal board in Bijnor district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India Mawana city is divided into 25 wards for which elections are held every five years.

Demographics

As of

2011 Indian Census The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, Mawana had a total population of 81,443, of which 43,029 were males and 38,414 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 11,426. The total number of literates in Mawana was 49,395, which constituted 60.6% of the population with male literacy of 66.6% and female literacy of 54.0%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Mawana was 70.6%, of which male literacy rate was 77.8% and female literacy rate was 62.5%. The

Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes 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 8,347 and 48 respectively. Mawana had 13566 households in 2011.

Work profile

Out of the total population, 23,562 were engaged in work or business activity. Of this 20,728 were male while 2,834 were female. In the census survey, a worker is defined as person who does business, job, service, and cultivator and labour activity. Of the total 23,562 working population, 84.02% were engaged in main work while 15.98% of the total workers were engaged in marginal work.

Festivals and fairs

Mawana hosts an annual fair named ''Shaheed Chadrabhan Pradarshani''. The founder of Shaheed Chandrabhan Samiti is R. Singh (ret. DSP and freedom fighter). Mela Makhdumpur is famous for Ganga-Snan festival.

Notable people

Amar Pal Singh Amar Pal Singh (31 May 1946, Village Dhikouli, Meerut district, (Uttar Pradesh)) is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party from Uttar Pradesh. He served as member of the Lok Sabha The Lok Sabha, constitutionally the House of the People, i ...

– Former Member of Parliament, Meerut

Mawana tehsil - Meerut

This is a list of all towns and villages in Mawana Tehsil of Meerut district, Uttar Pradesh.

References

{{Meerut district Cities and towns in Meerut district