Sarsawa is a town at the border of Haryana and a municipal board in

Saharanpur district Saharanpur district is the northernmost of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state, India. Bordering the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and close to the foothills of Shivalik range, it lies in the northern part of the Doab r ...

in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Sarsawa is a Nagar Palika Parishad town in

Nakur Nakur is a town, tehsil and a municipal board in Saharanpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Geography Nakur is located at . It has an average elevation of 261 metres (856 feet). It is located 24 km from Sahara ...

tehsil district of Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The Sarsawa city is divided into 25 wards for which elections are held every 5 years. The Sarsawa Nagar Palika Parishad has population of 18,956 of which 10,076 are males while 8,880 are females as per report released by Census India 2011.

History

Sarsawa 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 Pargana ( bn, পরগনা, , hi, परगना, ur, پرگنہ) or parganah, also spelt pergunnah during the time of the Sultanate period, Mughal times and British Raj, is a former administrative unit of the Indian subcontinent and each ...

under Saharanpur sarkar, producing a revenue of 2,516,125 dams for the imperial treasury and supplying a force of 200 infantry and 30 cavalry. Its brick fort is also mentioned.

Nearest cities

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 ...

* Yamunanagar * Chandigarh *

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 ...

* Haridwar *

Roorkee Roorkee (Rūṛkī) is a city and a municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of the state of Uttarakhand, India. It is from Haridwar city, the district headquarter. It is spread over a flat terrain under Sivalik Hills of Himalayas. The c ...

* New Delhi * Ambala *

Muzzafarnagar Muzaffarnagar is a city under Muzaffarnagar District in the Indian State of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated midway on the Delhi - Haridwar/Dehradun National Highway (NH 58) and is also well connected with the national railway network. It is kno ...

* Meerut

Demographics

At the

2011 Census of India 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 ...

, the population of children with age of 0–6 is 2466 which is 13.01% of total population of Sarsawa (NPP). In Sarsawa Nagar Palika Parishad, Female Sex Ratio is of 881 against state average of 912. Moreover, Child Sex Ratio in Sarsawa is around 820 compared to Uttar Pradesh state average of 902. Literacy rate of Sarsawa city is 79.40% higher than state average of 67.68%. In Sarsawa, Male literacy is around 85.21% while female literacy rate is 72.88%. Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 16.41% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 0.02% of total population in Sarsawa (NPP).

Tourist attractions

* Airforce Station *

ARC ARC may refer to: Business * Aircraft Radio Corporation, a major avionics manufacturer from the 1920s to the '50s * Airlines Reporting Corporation, an airline-owned company that provides ticket distribution, reporting, and settlement services * ...

* Yamuna (5 km away) * Shri bhankhandi mahadev temple * Kot- Opposite of Moh.Mirdhan Sarsawa

Transport

Sarsawa is located in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, about 98 mi (157 km) north of New Delhi, the country's capital.

Bus Stand provides interstate bus services to several cities of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab and Delhi.

Jolly Grant Airport Dehradun Airport , also known as Jolly Grant Airport, is a domestic airport serving Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand, India, located 25 km south of the city. Commercial operations began on 30 March 2008, after a runway extension to accommo ...

, and Chandigarh Airport, Chandigarh, are the nearest airports to Sarsawa, though

Sarsawa Air Force Station Sarsawa Air Force Station is located approximately from Saharanpur City, Uttar Pradesh, India and is approximately from Yamunanagar, Haryana, India. It belongs to the Western Air Command. Though the sole user of this airbase is the Indian A ...

is used for some VIP transport. Sarsawa railway station situated on

Moradabad–Ambala line The Moradabad–Ambala line (also known as Moradabad–Ambala main line) is a railway line connecting in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and in Haryana. The line is under the administrative jurisdiction of Northern Railway. History The Sc ...

having railway services to numerous major cities across the country.

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