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Moradabad मुरादाबाद مُرادآباد
city
Moradabad Railway Station entrance
Nickname: Brass City
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Moradabad
Area
• Total	3,493 km (1,349 sq mi)
Elevation	198 m (650 ft)
Population
• Total	889,810
• Density	250/km (660/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Hindi, Urdu, English, Khariboli, Haryanvi, Punjabi, Kumaoni
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	244001
Telephone code	0591
Vehicle registration	UP 21
Website	www.moradabad.nic.in

Moradabad pronunciation (Template:Lang-hi, Template:Lang-ur), is a city, commissionary, and a municipal corporation in Moradabad district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It was established in 1600 by prince Murad, the son of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan;

Moradabad is situated at a distance of 167 km (104 mi) from the national capital, New Delhi and 262 miles (421 km) north-west of the largest city of state i.e. Kanpur., on the banks of the Ramganga River (a tributary of the Ganges). The city is nicknamed Pital Nagri, ("City of Brass") for its famous brass handicrafts industry. It is also divisional headquarters of Northern Railway (NR).

History

In 1632, the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan appointed Rustam Khan, the governor of Kather Sambhal to capture it and he set up a fort at this place and named it as Rustam Nagar. Later on it was named as Moradabad after Shah Jahan's son Murad Baksh, and this name persists. Physical development of the city was started after the construction of a Jama Masjid on the orders given by Shah Jahan to Rustam Khan in 1637.

For the early history of Moradabad see History of Bareilly. It passed into the possession of the British in 1801. The population in 1901 was 1,191,993.

In 1980, the city witnessed Hindu-Muslim riots, which left hundreds of people dead.

Geography

The city of Moradabad is on a ridge west of the river Ramganga, about 650 feet above sea-level.Moradabad railway station is on a line built by Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway, 868 miles from Kolkata.

The city is divided into enclaves, vihars and sectors. It is on NH 24, which is a four-lane highway that connects New Delhi to Lucknow.

Demographics

In the 2011 census of India, Moradabad city had a population of 889,810. The municipality had a sex ratio of 908 females per 1,000 males and 12.4% of the population were under six years old. Effective literacy was 70.65%; male literacy was 74.05% and female literacy was 66.90%. The languages spoken in Moradabad city are Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and English.

Industry

The town forms a large centre of trade in country produce. It has a special industry in ornamental brass ware, sometimes plated with lac or tin, which is then engraved. Cotton weaving and printing are also carried on.

The government is investing a lot of money to improve infrastructural facilities to promote the industrial activities at Moradabad like 24-hour un-interrupted power supply, construction of by-pass road, proposal for widening and making the four-lane Delhi-Moradabad Road. About 450 acres of land has been acquired to develop a new industrial area for export-oriented units at Pakbara to Dingarpur Road. Thus this is good opportunity for entrepreneurs to establish their projects.

Handicrafts industry

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Moradabad is a major handicrafts manufacturing and exporting center famous for its brass handicrafts and thus is known as 'Brass City'. The modern, attractive, and artistic brass ware, jewelry and trophies made by skilled artisans are the main crafts. The brass ware is exported to countries like the USA, Britain, Canada, Germany and the Middle East. There are about 600 export units and 5000 industries in the district. Moradabad exported goods worth Rs. 4000 crore in FY12-13. With increasing prices of Brass exporters are also focusing on other metals such as Steel and Aluminium. Mentha is also exported in several crores from Moradabad. Due to increase of exports and popularity in, especially, Europe, America, Italy and other countries, a large number of exporters are establishing their units and started their export. Moradabad is one of them seven industrial corridors declared by the state government in industrial policy 1999-2002. Moradabad also has an SEZ spread on 450 acres of land.

Education

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Playschools

• Kangrooz Playschool,Civil Lines, Moradabad.

Universities

• Teerthanker Mahaveer University
• IFTM University

Hospitals

• Fortis Healthcare Moradabad
• Sri Sai Hospital
• Vivekanand Hospital Moradabad

Engineering and management colleges

• Moradabad Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Teerthanker Mahaveer Institute Of Management And Technology (TMIMT)
• Institute of Foreign Trade and Management (IFTM)
• Krishna Institute Of Management And Technology (KIMT)
• College Of Engineering Technology,Moradabad (CET)

Medical colleges

• Teerthankar Mahaveer Dental College & Research Center
• Teerthankar Mahaveer Medical College& Research Center
• Paramount Research Center
• Kothiwal Dental College and Research Center
• State K.G.K Homoeopathic medical college and hospital

Degree colleges

• Gokul Das Hindu Girls College
• V.K.S Law College
• Hindu Degree College, Moradabad
• Wilsonia Degree College
• Moradabad Muslim Degree College
• R.S.D Degree College
• M.H Degree College
• BLM Degree College Gari Chandpur Moradabad
• K.G.K College
• Dayanand Saraswati Degree College
• AMAANZWORLD Degree College

ISC/ICSE Schools

• St. Paul's College
• Wilsonia School
• Spring Fields College
• Tiny Tots College
• G.K. Welhams College
• Maharaja Agarsen Public School

CBSE/U.P. board Schools

1. Viksit Inter College, Baldev Puri Moradabad
2. Bahman Public School
3. Kamal Public School
4. Ather Ali Memorial Public School
5. Anita Inter College Gari Chandpur Moradabad
6. F. D. Inter College(Falahe Darain Inter College Moradabad)
7. Rani Pritam Kunwar School Senior Secondary (RPK BILARI MORADABAD-)Asgar Ali Khan]
8. Raghunandan National Inter College (R N inter college)
9. Parker Intermediate College
10. RGSA Girls Inter College Chandpur Moradabad
11. Delhi Public School
12. Shirdi Sai Public School
13. c.l.Gupta World School
14. S. S. Children Academy
15. Nosegay Sr. Sec. School
16. Saviour's Public School
17. RSD Academy
18. KGK Inter College
19. KCM school
20. Methodist Girls Inter College
21. Ansar inter college moradabad
22. Chitra Gupt Ineter College
23. Asian Public School
24. R R K Public School
25. Sacred Heart Convent School
26. St. Mary's School
27. St. Plus College
28. PMS Public School
29. Maharaja Agarsen Public School
30. Amtul's Public School
31. Bal Vidya Mandir
32. Chander Pal Arya Adarsh Kanya Vidyalya
33. Delhi Public School
34. Hewett Muslim Inter College (HMIC)
35. Adam & Eve's Convent School
36. Free Will Baptist School
37. Gandhi Nagar Public School Moradabad
38. Green Meadows School
39. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalya
40. Jeevan Jyoti Vidyalya
41. Kendriya Vidyalya
42. Modern Public School
43. St. Andrews Boys Junior High School
44. St. Joseph's Junior High School
45. St. Judes School
46. St. Perpetua Girls Junior High School
47. Prabha Devi Aadarsh kanya inter college
48. V.K.S. Public School
49. Shamsi Public School
50. OXFORD Public School
51. Athar Ali Memorial Public School
52. Sabira Public School
53. St. Stephen Public School
54. Kailash Chandra Memorial Senior Secondary School(K.C.M.)
55. S.S. inter college
56. ICEL Educational College
57. Depty Jagannath singh saraswati vidya mandir katghar, moradabad
58. Cambridge Public School,Lal Bagh,Moradabad
59. Moradabad Inter College, Moradabad

See also

• List of cities in Uttar Pradesh

References

1. ^ "Provisional Population Totals, Census of India 2011; Cities having population 1 lakh and above" (PDF). Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
2. Majid Husain. Understanding: Geographical: Map Entries: for Civil Services Examinations: Second Edition. Tata McGraw-Hill Education. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-07-070288-2. Retrieved 6 October 2012.
3. "Northern Railway: Moradabad Division".
4. Heilprin, Angelo and Heilprin, Louis, ed. (1906). "Moradabad". Lippincott's new gazetteer: a complete pronouncing gazetteer or geographical dictionary of the world. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: J. B. Lippincott. p. 1219. OCLC 1870625.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
5. Bareilly, India, Sheet NH 44-13 (topographic map scale 1:250,000), Series U-502, Washington, D.C.: United States Army Map Service, April 1958

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

• Moradabad (by the National Informatics Centre, Moradabad)
• "Moradabad City" article in The Imperial Gazetteer of India, 1901–1938
• Moradabad travel guide from Wikivoyage

• Moradabad
• Cities and towns in Moradabad district