Ghumarwin

Ghumarwin
Town
Ghumarwin
Location in Himachal Pradesh, India
Ghumarwin
Ghumarwin (India)
Coordinates: 31°26′09″N 76°42′43″E / 31.4358402°N 76.7118645°E / 31.4358402; 76.7118645Coordinates: 31°26′09″N 76°42′43″E / 31.4358402°N 76.7118645°E / 31.4358402; 76.7118645
Country  India
State Himachal Pradesh
District Bilaspur
Population (2011)
 • Total 7,899
Languages
 • Official Hindi and Pahari
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)

Ghumarwin is a town and a municipal council in Bilaspur district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.

It has become a major cultural and educational hub of Bilaspur. It is a rapidly emerging city located on a sharp small river (Seer khud) bank in a small valley which diverts towards Bilaspur. The town celebrates a famous four-day fair at the dawn of summer in First week of April. The town is a tehsil and home to rapidly expanding entrepreneurship. Ghumarwin is also famous for its variety of sweet preparation and local cuisines.Along with this Ghumarwin is the home for coffee farms in north India for the first time . Dr. Vikram Sharma presently member Coffee Board Of India is known as father for coffee in Himachal Pradesh . He started experimenting with coffee cultivation 18 years ago . Now the whole himachal is going to be a coffee state which started from Coffee Farms Manjhoti (a village of ghumarwin) . Situated on Shimla-Kangra NH88 it is well connected to rest of neighbouring states. HRTC busses and Taxis operate to nearly all possible routes on each sides.

Demographics

As of 2001 India census,[1] Ghumarwin had a population of 5720. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Ghumarwin has an average literacy rate of 78%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 80%, and female literacy is 76%. In Ghumarwin, 11% of the population is under 6 years.

Notable people

  1. Sanjay Kumar, Param Vir Chakra awardee
  2. Rattan Chand, Senior Bureaucrat

Educational institutions

  1. Govt. Sr. Sec. School, Talyana
  2. Jai him jyoti sr. Sec. School, talyana
  3. Matrix-Academy ghumarwin
  4. Swami Vivekanand Government College:.It offers UG and PG courses like BA/BSc/BCom and MA/MSc. .
  5. Government Senior Secondary School (Boys & Girls)
  6. Government Senior Secondary School (Girls)
  7. D.A.V. Public School
  8. College of Education
  9. Him Sarvodya Senior Secondary School
  10. Vision Convent School
  11. S.V.M High School
  12. Om Shanti Public School
  13. Govt Senior Secondary School Dadhol
  14. Minerva Public Sr. Sec. School
  15. Adarsh High School Ghumarwin
  16. kendreya vidyalaya Ghumarwin
  17. navalok adarsh vidyalaya khansra(mehrin kathla)
  18. Shivalik Publik School Marhana.Tel Ghumarwin
  19. YEN Law college ( under construction camps site) Dakhiut Dangar Ghumarwin
  20. GSSS Panoh

Thomson public school Ghumarwin

Beautiful view of the city comes from Harlog (near telecom towers) Earlier it was part of Kingdom of Maharaja NAND CHAND.

References

  1. ↑ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. Retrieved 2008-11-01.

govt SS School Morshighi


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