Shamli

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Shamli is a city, tehsil and a municipal board in Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh. According to legend, Shamli is the place where Krishna took a night's halt while going for his last attempt of truce thus avoiding Mahabharata, hence was its previous name "Shyama vali". This small suburb is also famous for the Hanuman tilla, a temple by legend built by the great warrior Bhima.

This is an agriculture cum industrial township with sugar as the major produce.It also has an old sugar factory known as "Sir Shadi Lal Upper Doab Sugar Mill".
Ruskin Bond's experience long time ago in this small town inspired him to write a story called "Time Stops at Shamli".

Geography

Shamli is located at 29.45|N|77.32|E|^[1]. It has an average elevation of 248 metres . The small city lies on the roads linking some major cities in this area, such as Delhi, Meerut,Karnal,Panipat Baghpat , Baraut and Saharanpur. The area lies to the east of the Yamuna river flowing through Karnal. The area has a very fertile land called 'Doab' meaning "a place lying in the deltas of two rivers", i.e. The Ganga and The Yamuna . The area is a major center of sugar cultivation and hence an area which attracts the sugar industries. This town is home to Hindus,Muslims,Sikhs Christians,Jain people.

Shamli used to be a small town but now it is expanding very fast and the latest Mayawati government has unveiled plans of declaring it a district. Shamli is 30 kms from Muzaffarnagar towards Baraut. This small town has an interesting feature that despite its small size, it has 10 movie halls. People are very fond of watching movie. This small town also has a sugar mill which is the source of properity of the people of the nearby areas.

Hanuman Tilla is the temple of Lord Hanuman.... It is said that the temple was established by Lord Krishna.. Now there are about 20 temples in the Hanuman Tilla campus...

Demographics

As of 2001 India ate of 64%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 70%, and female literacy is 57%. In Shamli, 15% of the population is under 6 years of age.

References

1. ↑ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Shamli

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