Sirhind-Fatehgarh Sahib
| Sirhind-Fatehgarh Sahib ਸਰਹਿੰਦ-ਫ਼ਤਿਹਗੜ੍ਹ |
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| State : | Punjab | ||
| District : | Fatehgarh Sahib | ||
| Sub-district : | Fatehgarh Sahib | ||
| Location : | 30 ° 37 ' N , 76 ° 23' E | ||
| Height : | 273 m | ||
| Area : | 11.5 km² | ||
| Residents : | 58,097 (2011) | ||
| Population density : | 5052 inhabitants / km² | ||
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Sirhind-Fatehgarh Sahib ( Panjabi ਸਰਹਿੰਦ-ਫ਼ਤਿਹਗੜ੍ਹ ) is a city in the Indian state of Punjab .
geography
The city lies between Ludhiana and Ambala on the national highway NH 1 . 30 km south is the city of Patiala , 40 km east of Chandigarh . Sirhind-Fatehgarh Sahib is on the Ludhiana – Ambala railway line.
The city of Sirhind-Fatehgarh Sahib has the status of a Municipal Council . It is the administrative center of the Fatehgarh Sahib district .
At the 2011 census, the population of Sirhind-Fatehgarh Sahib was 58,097. 10 years earlier it was 49,825.
history
Sirhind-Fatehgarh Sahib was established on April 8, 1998 when the two neighboring cities of Sirhind and Fatehgarh Sahib were merged. The latter was then still a Nagar Panchayat and has been the seat of its administration since the district was founded (since April 13, 1992).
On January 29, 1950, there was a serious railway accident in Sirhind when an express train and a freight train collided. 63 people died, about half were Indian soldiers.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.census2011.co.in
- ↑ Gazetteer Fatehgarh Sahib, Chapter XIV (Local Self-Government) . Dept. of Revenue, Rehabilitation and Disaster Management, Govt. of Punjab. Archived from the original on May 29, 2016. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 29, 2016.
- ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 126.
