Palwal

 city, municipality, taluka headquarter, district headquarter

Palwal City is located in Palwal Tehsil of Palwal District in Haryana State of India. Palwal City is the District Headquarters.

The city is situated at a distance of about 60 km from Delhi on the Delhi-Mathura highway(NH-2). The latitude of the town is 28° 40' N and longitude is 76° 59' E. The area of town is 22.10 km².

It is a place of great antiquity, supposed to figure in the earliest Aryan traditions under the name of Apelava, part of the Pandava kingdom of Indraprastha, which was later restored by Vikramaditya. Its importance is mainly historical, but it is a centre for the cotton trade in the area. It is the site of a Hindu temple called "Panchvati" which is a great symbol of the religion. Mahatama Gandhi was arrested for the first time at the Palwal station. Palwal Station Have Highest Numbers Of Platforms(8) In Whole Haryana. There are many hospitals like City hospital, Bagla Nursing Home, Manav Kalyan Ultrasound Centre.

Geography

Palwal is located at 28.15°N 77.33°E.It has an average elevation of 195 metres (639 ft). It is a city of hospitals and schools. There is Geeta Bhawan located at Kalra Colony Palwal. It has a very big grain market in which trade of wheat and rice takes place and also serves a very large population of not only Haryana but the entire country. It has 25 small & big Institutes teaching for Computer Hardware,Software & Networking.

History

Ancient times

The city Palwal got its name from a demon, "Palwasur" who ruled this place during the reign of Pandavas. He was killed by Balarama, elder brother of Shri Krishna. In his memory, every year a festival is organised in palwal which is known as "Baldev Chhat Ka Mela". There is also a temple dedicated to Balaram near Municipal Office chowk.Railway Station of Palwal is the place from where Mahatma Gandhi ji were arrested first time.A historical building "Gandhi Ashram" was made in the memory of Mahatma Gandhi
Syed Yusuf Ali Palwali was a noble and rich man from Palwal during the short ruling period of Muhammad Azam Shah and died along with Muhammad Azam Shah on 19 June 1707 at the battle of Jajuwan.
In 17th century, Khan Mohammad from Palwal married his daughter with Qazi Syed Rafi Mohammad. Similarly, the son of Qazi Syed Rafi Mohammad, Mohammad Baqar, was married to Sultan Bibi from Palwal. The daughter of Mohammad Baqar, 'Khairun Nisan' was also married in Palwal to Mohammad Ikram ibn Sultan Mohammad (alias Qazi Mian of Palwal). The daughter of 'Khairun Nisan' and Mohmmad Ikram namely 'Noorun Nisan' was married with Mohammad Mureeed, son of Qazi Syed Hayatullah. Qazi Syed Mohammad Rafi also married in Palwal with Fazal Nisan, daughter of Mohammad Saeed ibn Mohammad Hussain ibn Maulana Abul Khair. These intermarriages show how deep relations were there between Palwal and Sakras.

British Period

During the British period, Palwal was a part of the Punjab Province and a part of Gurgaon district.
Many persons from Palwal participated in the 1857 revolt against the British forces. Hayat Ali and Khairat Ali were martyred along with 17 people from Palwal only. Hayat Ali after arrest from his house was taken to Delhi and hanged. All male members of his family were ordered to be hanged. Large number of arrest warrants were issued. Interestingly, Tahsildar Palwal impersonate as Bangle seller like a Political decoy, went to the house of Hayat Ali, and saved Nazeer Ali (the grandson of Hayat Ali), who was merely 2 years old, inside a basket fully covered by bangles. He then left the child in the jungles of Nageena near Palwal. Ladies from the family of Hayat Ali, followed him, took the child from jungles and with cautious ultimately reached Tijara. Amongst the 17 people who were hanged in Palwal included the son-in-law of Hayat Ali, whose name was Iradat Ali bin Rustam Ali. When British forces chased the other family members from Pinangwan. The brother of Iradat Ali from Pinangwan, namely Karamat Ali could able to survive his life and ran away to Tijara. He latterly changed his name to ‘Zamin Ali’.

Post-independence

On 15 August 1979, Gurgaon district was further divided to form a new Faridabad district, and Palwal became a part of it. Finally Palwal became the 21st district of Haryana on 15 Augest, 2008.
Palwal is now an education hub. It has 8 Engineering Colleges and other fields are available at those colleges. It has many good schools such as Saraswati Senior Secondry School . About 6 km away from main town there is a "Water Chakki" located at Chajju Nagar made in British Time & working properly from British Time.
A high tricolor was hoisted in Palwal on 24 January 2011 At Town Park By MP Of INC Mr. Naveen Jindal. The tricolor Is 100 ft high.

Education

Palwal is famous for its schools. There are many school which landmark in development and economy of Palwal. Some of the famous schools are-
The New Age Public Sr. Sec. School
JCB Modern Sr. Sec. School
Saraswati Senior Secondary School
B.K Sr. Sec. School.
Golaya Progressive School
Delhi Public School
DAV Public School
Nishant Public School
Jeevan Jyoti Sr. Sec. School
Shanti Public School
L.D. Convent Public School (Shamshabad)
There are many other which are making their presence notable on many times.
Palwal is the upcoming educational hub in the state.With more than a dozen engineering colleges, management institutes and degree colleges the palwal district is providing a high class educational contribution to the young blood of the country.
Some of the colleges in the city are:-
1.DCTM Delhi College of Technology & Management
2.Gopal Sharma Modern Vidya Niketan Institute of Engineering and Technology - GSMVNIET
3.Les Filles MVN Institute of Engineering & Technology
4.NGF College of Engineering And Technology
5.Satya College of Engineering & Technology
6.Shri Ram College of Engineering & Management
7.GGD SD College, Palwal
8.Applied college of mgt.& engineering.
9.RITM Collage of Engineering & Technology
10.AITM Advanced institute of tech. & mgmt.
11.RITM Rattan institute of tech. & mgmt.
Palwal is 366 number ranked city in India as per population census 2011 out of 500 top cities of India. This is 21st district and 16th(rank as per resourses and population)city of haryana. Palwal have its historical importance. This city have same of the historic regions to visit like Panchwati Mandir and same region of the city (banchari) is also present in the 84 kos parikrma of brij dham, so this place also came in the territory of lord krishna karmbhom. The ancient name of Palwal was Aplvaprastha which is know get modified into Palwal. One of the recent development in palwal region is the construction of KMP (western peripheral) Expressway.
Now big private players of real state like Omaxe, SRS, Era, Piyush, Crown Group were also developing there township in the city.Palwal now slowly turning out to be a education hub as near about 20 educational institutions have established there campuses very near to palwal city.
As per provisional reports of Census India, population of Palwal in 2011 is 127,931; of which male and female are 67,887 and 60,044 respectively. The sex ratio of Palwal city is 884 per 1000 males.

In education section, total literates in Palwal city are 90,937 of which 52,028 are males while 38,909 are females. Average literacy rate of Palwal city is 81.00 percent of which male and female literacy was 87.78 and 73.42 percent.

Total children (0-6) in Palwal city are 15,662 as per figure from Census India report on 2011. There were 8,614 boys while 7,048 are girls. Child sex ratio of girls is 818 per 1000 boys.

Palwal city is governed by Municipal Corporation which comes under Palwal Urban Agglomeration. Although Palwal city has population of 127,931; its urban / metropolitan population is 131,121 of which 69,560 are males and 61,561 are females.