Social,
Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
Backwardness : 403
Sex Ratio Rank : 86
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 69 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 364 (Census 2001)
Minority : Yes
Challenges of the district : Our research with local communities
People lack awareness.
Inter caste marriage is denied.
The quality of education is improving. NGOS are doing a great job
in improving the quality of education. The condition of women has
not improved yet. They still succumb to violence. Women are not
literate and empowered. Female infanticide is high. Sex determination
of the unborn child is still prevalent. Government should take strict
stand on this.
Brief About Muzaffaranagar
District
A HISTORICAL OUTLINE
In pages of history and revenue records SARVAT was known as pargana
which was given as JAGIR to one of the chieftains named SAIYED MUZAFFARKHAN
by emperor SHAHJHAN. He founded the city of Muzaffarnagar in 1633
with lands of KHERA & SUJRU. His project was completed by his
son MUNAWAR LASHKAR KHAN who in turn named the city after his father
MUZAFFARKHAN.But recent finding of archeological site at village
MANDI (Tehsil SADAR) in west of river KALI takes the roots of district
Muzaffarnagar to HARAPPAN civilization. Hordes of gold ring like
objects and other precious stones prove that the site was the part
of mature HARAPPAN culture and also important center of trade during
ancient times. More excavations are being carried out by Archeological
Survey of India and in near future better picture will emerge from
these findings.Proximity with HASTINAPUR and KURUKSHEHTRA indicates
that this district was hub of activities during the MAHABHARAT era.
With exceptions of few findings of GREECO-ROMAN coins, there is
hardly any direct mention of the region for a long period of time.
But with strategic location of MUZAFFAR NAGAR, it can be safely
presumed that there were a lot of political as well as economic
activities here. RAJPUTS, TAGAS and BRAHMINS dominated the area
according to C.H.NEVILLE, I.C.S. in his compilation of Muzaffarnagar
Gazetteer. Later JATS replaced the TAGAS.Persian literature has
mention of the place during TIMUR's invasion of India. A large number
of Hindus gathered at BHOKAR HERI on the banks of river GANGA to
resist his armies according to TIMUR. But unorganized Hindu force
were defeated by him in year 1399.
GEOGRAPHICAL OUTLINE
Muzaffarnagar is located at northern part of
Uttar Pradesh. The district of Muzaffarnagar forms a portion of
division Saharanpur, and situated in the DOAB of the Ganges and
the Jamuna, between the districts of Meerut on the South and Saharanpur
on the North. On the west, the Jamuna separates it from the Panipat
and Thaneswar tahsil of the Karnal district of
Haryana; and on the east the river Ganges forms the boundary between
this district and the Bijnor tahsil of the district of same name.
It is roughly rectangular in shape, lying between north latitude
29º 11' 30'' and 29º 45' 15" and east longitude 77º 3' 45"
and 78º 7'. The greatest length of district from east to west
is sixty-one miles, and its greatest breadth from north to south
thirty-six miles. The average length and breadths are about fifty-three
and thirty-one miles, respectively. The total area in 1901 amounted
to 1,963,662 acres, or 1,662 square miles and in 2000 amounted
to 4049 square k.m.. The district is well connected by road and
railway network. National Higway-58 passes through Muzaffarnagar
city. Upper Ganga & Lower Yamuna canal lie in this district.
