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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 Nehru, 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. ........More |
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