Social,
Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
Backwardness : 380
Sex Ratio Rank : 64
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 -2006)
Disability : 149 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 205 (Census 2001)
Minority : Yes
Challenges of the district : Our research with local communities
The main problem we face is of migrant laborers.
Ghaziabad is dominated by many industries. People from all over
the country come in search of jobs. This leads to lot of pressure
on the resources. The issues of slums, lack of hygiene and sanitation
are on the rise.
Child Labor is invasive.
In the rural areas, the quality of education and the condition of
the school is very unfortunate.
Brief About Ghaziabad District
Before 14th November 1976 Ghaziabad was the Tehsil of District
Meerut. The then chief minister Mr. N.D.Tiwari decalered Ghaziabad
as a district on 14th November 1976, on the birth anniversary
of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehry, the first prime minister of India. From
then Ghaziabad has moved forward leaps and bounds on the social,
economic, agriculture and individual front.
Ghaziabad, the headquarter of the district of
the same name, lies on the Grand Trunk road about a mile east
of the Hindon river in Lat. 280 40' North and Long. 770 25' East,
19 Kms. east of Delhi and 46 Kms. south-west of Meerut with which
it is connected by a metalled road. Other roads lead north-wesr
to Loni and Baghpat and east to Hapur and Garhmukteshwar. Buses
run at freequent intervals from here to Delhi, Meerut,Aligarh,Bulandshahar,
Moradabad, Lucknow and to other districts also. It is an important
station on the Northern Railway where railway lines, from Delhi
to Calcutta, Moradabad and Saharanpur meet, connecting it with
many important cities of India.
As it's boundary is adjacent to Delhi, it acts
as the main entrance of Uttar Pradesh and that is why it is also
called the GATEWAY OF U.P.
From Ghaziuddinnagar
to Ghaziabad
The place was founded in 1740 by the vizir, Ghazi-ud-din,
who called it Ghaziuddinnagar after himself and built a spacious
sarai consisting of 120 rooms of masonry with pointed arches.Only
the gate , a few portions of the boundary wall and a massive pillar
about fourteen feet in height remains now, the precincts now being
inhabited. His masoleum still stands in the city but is in a bad
state of preservation. The Jat raja, Surajmal, killed near the
city by the Rohillas in 1763. An encounter between the freedom
fighters and a small British force took place here in May, 1857,
in which the former were defeated while trying to hold the Hindon.
After the opening the railway line the name of the place was shortened
to Ghaziabad.
Geographical Location
The district of Ghaziabad is suitated in the middle of Ganga-
Yamuna doab. In shape it is roughly rectangular, its lenght is
72 Kms. and its breadth is 37 Kms. On the north it is bouned by
the district of Meerut, on the south by that of Bulandshahar &
Gautambudh Nagar and on the south- west by the national capital
Delhi State and on the east by the district Jyotibaphule nagar.
Ganga, Yamuna and Hindon are the main rivers
flowing through the district and they are filled with water throughout
the year. Other than these there are some small rainfed rivers,
prominent among them is the Kali river. Apart from these rivers
the Ganaga Canal flows through the district and irrigation work
is carried out through different branches of Canal. The Ganga
canal also caters the drinking water needs of the people of ghaziabad
as well as Delhi.
Area & Population
The total area of the district (according to CENSUS 1991) was
2590.0 sq. kms. but after the formation of the new district Gautam
budh Nagar , it becomes 1933.3 sq. kms.
According to the census of 1991 the population
of the district is 22,47,434. The density of the population per
sq kms. is 1,127 and the population is 464.7 % higher than what
it was ninety years ago.
Ghaziabad is a growing industrial city. Its population
having increased from 5,81,886 (in 1901) to 27,03,933 (in 1991)
mainly on account of its rapid industrilization and its proximity
to Delhi. A large number of persons reside here but carry on their
trades in Delhi or are employed there
In the last twenty years Ghaziabad has expanded
more than any other city. Before the formation of Ghaziabad district
on 14th November 1976 it was a town of tehsil status of district
Meerut but after it became a district it developed very fast and
its population too increased in that proportation.
According to the 1991 census, total population
of Ghaziabad district was 22,47,434, out of which 4,83,630 people
are of schduled caste and 149 are of schduled tribe. There were
15,30,081 males and 12,05,397 females. Off all 9,40,469 people
lived in villages and 18,55,009 people lived in the urban areas.
According to the 1991 census there were 9,80,938
literate people in the district out of which 6,62,402 were males
and 3,18,536 females. Glancing at the urban population and comparing
it with the previous census of the district, it is clear that
the rural population has decreased considerably. It seems rapid
establishment of new industrial institutions were the main reason
for it. Increase in the urban population of Ghaziabad can be attributed
to the influx of people to the city for earning their bread and
butter and secondly as the residential problem of the Delhi metropolice
is increasing, a large number of people are leaving it to settle
in the nearby areas. As Ghaziabad is the most suitable place its
urban population has increased rapidly.
Climate
As it is connected to National capital Delhi, its temprature and
rainfall are similar to Delhi. Rajasthan's dust storms and snowfall
in the Himalayas, Kumaon and Garhwal hills name their impact in
the weather regularly. The monsoon arrives in the district during
the end of the June or the first week of July and normally it
rains till october.
As in other districts of northern India mainly
three seasons- summer, winter and rainy prevail here but sometimes
due to severe snowfall in the Himalayas and Kumaon Hills adverse
weather can also seen.
There is one municipal corporation (Ghaziabad),
five municipal councils (Muradnagar, Modinagar, Hapur, Garhmuketeshwar
and Pilkhua) and six town panchayats (town area Loni, Niwari,
Patla, Dasna, Babugarh and Faridnagar) in the district. Ghaziabad
was given the status of municipal corporation on 31st August 1994.
There are 580 villages in the district out of which 535 villages
are inhabited and 45 are non-inhabited.
