Rewari
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Rewari is a city and a municipal council
in Rewari district
in the India
n state
of Haryana
. It is located in south-west Haryana around 82 km (51 mi) from Delhi
and 51 km (31.7 mi) from Gurgaon
.
, the king donated the city “Rewa-Wadi” as dowry to her daughter. In the course of time, the name Rewa-Wadi became Rewari.
.
Rewari city was in Rewari district, a district of Delhi
province during Akbar's time that included several parts of the modern other districts of Haryana
and Rajasthan
. It was made a tehsil
of Gurgaon district by the British in 1862. Following Rao Tula Ram's unsuccessful fierce and violent revolt, Rewari was included in Punjab, where it continued until 1972, when it was included in Mahendragarh
district. Rewari was included in newly formed Rewari district in 1989. The district now has three tehsils: Rewari, Bawal
and Kosli
.
Hemu
(1501–1556), Hem Chandra or King Hem Chandra Vikramaditya was a Bhargava Brahmin educated and brought up in Rewari. His haveli (house) still stands in the Qutabpur area in Rewari city. He became Chief of the Army and Prime Minister of Adil Shah in 1553. In the three years 1553–56 he won 22 battles from Punjab to Bengal. Hemu defeated Moghul king Akbar's army at Delhi on 6 October 1556, and declared himself King of Delhi. However, his reign lasted only one month. He was defeated by Akbar's army at the Second Battle of Panipat on 5 November 1556 and beheaded.
Hemu also developed a cannon foundry in Rewari, laying the foundation of a metalwork industry in brass, copper sheets and utensils manufacture for which Rewari is still known.
was born on 9 December 1825 at Rampura, then seat of power in Rewari. He led a revolt in 1857 against the rule by British East India Company
in India supported by persons of all faiths. Many persons were killed in the fight at Narnaul
(Nasibpur) on 16 November 1857 at Nasibpur and Rao Tula Ram was defeated. Rao Tula Ram escaped to Afghanistan after an unsuccessful revolt, but Gopal Dev continued the struggle.
Yadavs from Rewari city have sizeable presence in the Indian army
and para-military forces. Kumaon Regiment of Indian Army has large numbers from this community.
ranges as well as sandy dunes in the district affect the city's climate.
Rewari is a part of the National Capital Region
.
Rain falls from July to September. A little rain is experienced during winter also. Average annual rainfall in Rewari city is 553 millimetre. Rain-fed Sahibi river that originates in Rajasthan passes through Rewari and falls in Najafgarh
lake in Delhi. Extremely heavy rains in 1978 flooded Sahibi (and Rewari) which in turn flooded Delhi. A barrage was then constructed at Masani village on junction of NH8 and NH71B to impound the water coming from Rajasthan. However, the barrage has hardly collected any water as the rains have not been heavy for the last 30 years and Rajasthan has built check-dams upstream on Sahibi. A canal has been constructed in 2009 to carry excess rain water to the barrage to recharge the ground drinking water for Rewari town. The canal takes off from the existing canal near the Kendriya Vidyalaya, Rewari.
The nearest airport is Indira Gandhi International Airport
, New Delhi, about 60 km away.
. This allowed metre gauge trains from Rajasthan to continue up to Delhi Sarai Rohilla on the remaining track. The second track from Rewari to Delhi was converted to broad gauge in 2009 as all the metre gauge tracks from Rewari to cities in Rajasthan had been converted to broad gauge by then. Thus all the railway tracks from Rewari have been converted to broad gauge obviating the need for change of trains at gauge-change stations such as Delhi and Ahmedabad.
Rewari is a major junction on the Indian railway network and has connections to major cities in India by direct trains. Five railway lines connect it to the various cities and a sixth has been laid that is planned to become operational in 2012 after approval from Commissioner of Railway Safety. Plans for the seventh line to provide a connection to Palwal
and Khurja
have been under consideration for over two decades but remain undecided as of September 2011.
Rewari is a major transit station for freight traffic from Bombay and Kandla
ports in western India towards Delhi and northern states of Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh
and Jammu-Kashmir. As the Kandla
-Ahmedabad
-Rewari railway track is not electrified, freight trains (goods trains) with containers double-stacked ply on this route and take the containers further north from Rewari. Double-stacked container freight trains can carry almost 4000 tons per rake which is almost twice of the load a normal goods train can haul. The Delhi-Rewari-Ajmer railway line has double track since 2011 and the doubling of Rewari-Ahmedabad railway track has been approved and will take a few years for execution.
The Rewari-Delhi railway line is planned to be electrified. Electric trains (EMU) may run between Delhi and Rewari when the track is electrified.
-Rohtak
-Jhajjar
-Rewari) and NH71B (Rewari-Dharuhera
-Sohna
-Palwal
). State highways connect Rewari to all major towns in Haryana and adjacent districts of Rajasthan.
There are frequent bus services between Rewari and Delhi, as well as other towns of Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan.
s. Built in 1893, a decade before the Old Delhi Railway Station, it was the only loco shed in North India
for a long time and part of the track connecting Delhi with Peshawar
. After steam engines were phased out of Indian Railways in early 1990s, the shed remained in neglect for many years, before it was revived in December 2002 by Indian Railways as a heritage museum. The Rewari steamers have been rented out for various film shoots, and a part of the film Gandhi, My Father
was shot here.
Ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games
, the shed was further refurbished as a heritage tourism
destination, its heritage edifice was restored and a museum was added by the Indian Railways
exhibiting Victorian-era artefacts used on the Indian rail network, along with the old signalling system, gramophones and seats. The engines will also be available for live demonstrations.
community in 1890 in the building now known as Bhargava Boarding House located near Bharawas Gate. The nearest college was in the nearby princely state of Alwar until independence. Ahir College was set up in 1945 by Rao Balbir Singh, a descendant of Rao Tula Ram. Kishanlal Public College is another educational institute. Shishu Shala was the first English school, established in 1950 in Model Town.
A Kendriya Vidyalaya
(Central School) has existed in Rewari since 1980. A Sainik School
is started in the year 2009. It is temporarily housed in Rewari city awaiting completion of construction of its permanent campus at village Pali-Gothra, west of the city.
A postgraduate regional centre of Rohtak University (MDU) has been set up in Mirpur village.
Several private colleges have been set up around Rewari in the last decade to teach engineering, management, law, and nursing though the quality of education in some of them is low as in the rest of the country.
Real estate development of agricultural land into houses and offices near Gurgaon town from 1970s to 1990s and further south-west towards Manesar
in the current decade has led to similar development in Dharuhera
and adjacent Bhiwadi
of Alwar district of Rajasthan.. Sale of land has put huge amounts of money in the hands of farmers and changed their life style.
Rewari Town Regional Development Plan has earmarked about 40 sectors for residence, commerce and industry between Rewari town, NH8 and NH71B (the road connecting Rewari town to NH8). Most of the sectors fall in villages and private developers are buying agriculture land for development of plots and buildings. Some land has been acquired by the government and four residential sectors have been developed in Rewari city.
is a mega infra-structure project of USD 90 billion with the financial & technical aids from Japan, covering an overall length of 1,483 km between the political capital and the business capital of India, i.e., Delhi and Mumbai. It will initially link Rewari to Mumbai. The western part of DFC (Rewari-Delhi-Mumbai) is now under consideration and is estimated to cost Rs.240 billion (24,000 crore). It has been broken up into two phases, the first of which will extend from Rewari to Vadodara
(Baroda) in Gujarat. A regional Mass Rapid Transport Service (MRTS) with a feeder service is likely to come up between Gurgaon and Rewari to enhance connectivity between Delhi and the developing manufacturing hubs in the NCR.
. During the time of Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya (Hemu) cannons were cast in Rewari for the army of Sher Shah Suri
.
Municipal council
A municipal council is the local government of a municipality. Specifically the term can refer to the institutions of various countries that can be translated by this term...
in Rewari district
Rewari District
Rewari district is one of the 21 districts of Haryana state, India. The administrative headquarters of this district, Rewari city is the biggest city in this district. It is located in southern Haryana...
in the India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n state
States and territories of India
India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.-List of states and territories:...
of Haryana
Haryana
Haryana is a state in India. Historically, it has been a part of the Kuru region in North India. The name Haryana is found mentioned in the 12th century AD by the apabhramsha writer Vibudh Shridhar . It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, and by Rajasthan to the west and south...
. It is located in south-west Haryana around 82 km (51 mi) from Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
and 51 km (31.7 mi) from Gurgaon
Gurgaon
Gurgaon is the second largest city in the Indian state of Haryana. Gurgaon is the industrial and financial center of Haryana. It is located 30 km south of national capital New Delhi, about 10 kilometers from Dwarka Sub City and 268 km south of Chandigarh, the state capital...
.
Etymology
During the Mahabharata period in ancient India, a king named Rewat had a daughter named Rewati. The father used to call her Rewa, and founded a city "Rewa Wadi" named after her. [Wadi and wada mean a neighbourhood (small and big respectively) in Hindi and many other Indian languages.] When Rewa married Balram, elder brother of Lord KrishnaKrishna
Krishna is a central figure of Hinduism and is traditionally attributed the authorship of the Bhagavad Gita. He is the supreme Being and considered in some monotheistic traditions as an Avatar of Vishnu...
, the king donated the city “Rewa-Wadi” as dowry to her daughter. In the course of time, the name Rewa-Wadi became Rewari.
Current history
Rewari town was again founded in village Rampura by Rao Nand Ram, an Ahir leader of Garhi Bolni twin villages. His son Rao Bal Krishna rose to the position of a mansabdar (who maintained two thousand troops) under AurangzebAurangzeb
Abul Muzaffar Muhy-ud-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb Alamgir , more commonly known as Aurangzeb or by his chosen imperial title Alamgir , was the sixth Mughal Emperor of India, whose reign lasted from 1658 until his death in 1707.Badshah Aurangzeb, having ruled most of the Indian subcontinent for nearly...
.
Rewari city was in Rewari district, a district of Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
province during Akbar's time that included several parts of the modern other districts of Haryana
Haryana
Haryana is a state in India. Historically, it has been a part of the Kuru region in North India. The name Haryana is found mentioned in the 12th century AD by the apabhramsha writer Vibudh Shridhar . It is bordered by Punjab and Himachal Pradesh to the north, and by Rajasthan to the west and south...
and Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...
. It was made a tehsil
Tehsil
A Tehsil or Tahsil/Tahasil , also known as Taluk and Mandal, is an administrative division of some country/countries of South Asia....
of Gurgaon district by the British in 1862. Following Rao Tula Ram's unsuccessful fierce and violent revolt, Rewari was included in Punjab, where it continued until 1972, when it was included in Mahendragarh
Mahendragarh
Mahendragarh is a town and a municipal committee in Mahendragarh district in the north Indian state of Haryana.-Geography:Mahendragarh is located at...
district. Rewari was included in newly formed Rewari district in 1989. The district now has three tehsils: Rewari, Bawal
Bawal
Bawal is a municipality of Rewari district in the state of Haryana, India. Bawal comes under the National Capital Region of India and is strategically located on the National Highway 8, about 14 km from Rewari, 60 km from Gurgaon and about 100 km from Delhi.- Geography :Bawal is...
and Kosli
Kosli
Kosli is a Tehsil in District Rewari of state Haryana in India. It is situated 80 km from Delhi in National Capital Region .According to Mahabharat, Tomar Clan was once a part of Yadav Clan...
.
Medieval
Hemu
Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, Hemu Vikramaditya or simply Hemu was a Hindu Emperor of India during the sixteenth century, in medieval times...
(1501–1556), Hem Chandra or King Hem Chandra Vikramaditya was a Bhargava Brahmin educated and brought up in Rewari. His haveli (house) still stands in the Qutabpur area in Rewari city. He became Chief of the Army and Prime Minister of Adil Shah in 1553. In the three years 1553–56 he won 22 battles from Punjab to Bengal. Hemu defeated Moghul king Akbar's army at Delhi on 6 October 1556, and declared himself King of Delhi. However, his reign lasted only one month. He was defeated by Akbar's army at the Second Battle of Panipat on 5 November 1556 and beheaded.
Hemu also developed a cannon foundry in Rewari, laying the foundation of a metalwork industry in brass, copper sheets and utensils manufacture for which Rewari is still known.
Modern
The nineteenth-century freedom fighter Rao Tula RamRao Tula Ram
Rao Tula Ram was one of the key leaders of the Indian rebellion of 1857, in Haryana, where he is considered a state hero....
was born on 9 December 1825 at Rampura, then seat of power in Rewari. He led a revolt in 1857 against the rule by British East India Company
East India Company
The East India Company was an early English joint-stock company that was formed initially for pursuing trade with the East Indies, but that ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and China...
in India supported by persons of all faiths. Many persons were killed in the fight at Narnaul
Narnaul
Narnaul is a city, a municipal council and headquarter of Mahendragarh district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is one of the very few districts in India with the name of the district different from the name of the main town in the district.- Geography :...
(Nasibpur) on 16 November 1857 at Nasibpur and Rao Tula Ram was defeated. Rao Tula Ram escaped to Afghanistan after an unsuccessful revolt, but Gopal Dev continued the struggle.
Yadavs from Rewari city have sizeable presence in the Indian army
Indian Army
The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...
and para-military forces. Kumaon Regiment of Indian Army has large numbers from this community.
Location
Rewari is adjacent to Rajasthan and, therefore, has dust storms in summer. Rugged hilly terrain of AravaliAravalli Range
The Aravalli Range literally meaning 'line of peaks', is a range of mountains in western India and eastern Pakistan running approximately 800 km from northeast to southwest across states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Gujarat and Pakistani provinces of Punjab and Sindh...
ranges as well as sandy dunes in the district affect the city's climate.
Rewari is a part of the National Capital Region
National Capital Region (India)
The National Capital Region in India is a name for the conurbation or metropolitan area which encompasses the entire National Capital Territory of Delhi as well as urban areas ringing it in neighbouring states of Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan...
.
Climate
Rewari has a dry, semi-arid climate. The mean minimum and maximum temperature range from 6 °C to 41 °C during January (winter) and May–June (summer) respectively. The summer temperature can go up to 46 °C from May to July. Winter is from November to February and the temperature can fall to 2 °C in December and January.Rain falls from July to September. A little rain is experienced during winter also. Average annual rainfall in Rewari city is 553 millimetre. Rain-fed Sahibi river that originates in Rajasthan passes through Rewari and falls in Najafgarh
Najafgarh
Najafgarh is located at the outskirts of the southwestern part of New Delhi, India.It has a mixture of Rural and Urban population from New Delhi and Haryana.-Overview:...
lake in Delhi. Extremely heavy rains in 1978 flooded Sahibi (and Rewari) which in turn flooded Delhi. A barrage was then constructed at Masani village on junction of NH8 and NH71B to impound the water coming from Rajasthan. However, the barrage has hardly collected any water as the rains have not been heavy for the last 30 years and Rajasthan has built check-dams upstream on Sahibi. A canal has been constructed in 2009 to carry excess rain water to the barrage to recharge the ground drinking water for Rewari town. The canal takes off from the existing canal near the Kendriya Vidyalaya, Rewari.
Demographics
As of the 2011 India census, Rewari city had a population of 140,864 (compared to 100,946 in 2001 and 75,342 in 1991) showing 40% growth in 2001-11 decade against 34% growth in 1991-2001 decade. Males constituted 53% and females 47% of the population. Sex ratio (female:male) was just 886. The sex ratio was worse at just 785 for the 0 to 6 year age-group. Rewari had an average literacy rate of 78%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. Male literacy is 83%, and female literacy is 73% (compared to 79% and 67% respectively in 2001). In Rewari, 11.3% of the population is under six years of age.Air
Indira Gandhi International Airport
Indira Gandhi International Airport is the primary international airport of the National Capital Region of Delhi, India, situated in West Delhi, 16 km southwest of New Delhi city centre. Named after Indira Gandhi, the former Prime Minister of India, it is the busiest airport in India in...
, New Delhi, about 60 km away.
Railway
Rewari was first connected by a railway line in 1873, when the first meter gauge railway track in India was opened. This track was laid between Delhi and Rewari. The gauge was converted to broad gauge in 1992 for one of the tracks under Project UnigaugeProject Unigauge
Project Unigauge is an ongoing exercise by Indian Railways to standardise most of the rail gauges in India at 1676 mm broad gauge....
. This allowed metre gauge trains from Rajasthan to continue up to Delhi Sarai Rohilla on the remaining track. The second track from Rewari to Delhi was converted to broad gauge in 2009 as all the metre gauge tracks from Rewari to cities in Rajasthan had been converted to broad gauge by then. Thus all the railway tracks from Rewari have been converted to broad gauge obviating the need for change of trains at gauge-change stations such as Delhi and Ahmedabad.
Rewari is a major junction on the Indian railway network and has connections to major cities in India by direct trains. Five railway lines connect it to the various cities and a sixth has been laid that is planned to become operational in 2012 after approval from Commissioner of Railway Safety. Plans for the seventh line to provide a connection to Palwal
Palwal
Palwal is a city and a municipal council. It is the headquarters of Palwal district, the 21st district of Haryana state in northern IndiaIt is situated at a distance of 60 km from Delhi on the Delhi-Mathura highway. The latitude of the town is 28° 40' N and longitude is 76° 59' E...
and Khurja
Khurja
Khurja is a city in the Bulandshahr district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is situated around 85 km from Delhi...
have been under consideration for over two decades but remain undecided as of September 2011.
Rewari is a major transit station for freight traffic from Bombay and Kandla
Kandla
Kandla is a seaport in Kutch District of Gujarat state in western India. Located on the Gulf of Kutch, it is one of major ports on west coast. Kandla was constructed in the 1950s as the chief seaport serving western India, after the partition of India from Pakistan left the port of Karachi in...
ports in western India towards Delhi and northern states of Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh is a state in Northern India. It is spread over , and is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir on the north, Punjab on the west and south-west, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on the south, Uttarakhand on the south-east and by the Tibet Autonomous Region on the east...
and Jammu-Kashmir. As the Kandla
Kandla
Kandla is a seaport in Kutch District of Gujarat state in western India. Located on the Gulf of Kutch, it is one of major ports on west coast. Kandla was constructed in the 1950s as the chief seaport serving western India, after the partition of India from Pakistan left the port of Karachi in...
-Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad also known as Karnavati is the largest city in Gujarat, India. It is the former capital of Gujarat and is also the judicial capital of Gujarat as the Gujarat High Court has its seat in Ahmedabad...
-Rewari railway track is not electrified, freight trains (goods trains) with containers double-stacked ply on this route and take the containers further north from Rewari. Double-stacked container freight trains can carry almost 4000 tons per rake which is almost twice of the load a normal goods train can haul. The Delhi-Rewari-Ajmer railway line has double track since 2011 and the doubling of Rewari-Ahmedabad railway track has been approved and will take a few years for execution.
The Rewari-Delhi railway line is planned to be electrified. Electric trains (EMU) may run between Delhi and Rewari when the track is electrified.
Road
Rewari is connected by three national highways: NH8 (Delhi-Jaipur-Mumbai), NH71 (JalandharJalandhar
Jalandhar is a city in Jalandhar District in the state of Punjab, India. It is located 144 km northwest of the state capital, Chandigarh...
-Rohtak
Rohtak
Rohtak City is a Municipal Corporation in Rohtak district that styles itself as the "Heart of Haryana". It is located 70 km Northwest of New Delhi and 210 km South of the state capital Chandigarh at the NH 10...
-Jhajjar
Jhajjar
Jhajjar is a town in Jhajjar district in the Indian state of Haryana.-Geography:Jhajjar is located at . It has an average elevation of 220 metres .-Demographics:...
-Rewari) and NH71B (Rewari-Dharuhera
Dharuhera
Dharuhera is a census town in Rewari tehsil of Rewari district in the state of Haryana, India. Dharuhera comes under Delhi NCR region and it is an industrial hub.It was founded by Choudhary Nand Ram, a Yaduvanshi Ahir ruler of Rewari.-Geography:...
-Sohna
Sohna
Sohna is a town and a municipal committee in Gurgaon district in the Indian state of Haryana.The small town of Sohna is a tourist place, located 24 km from the city on the highway from Gurgaon to Alwar, near a vertical rock. The town derived its name from the gold dust which was found from...
-Palwal
Palwal
Palwal is a city and a municipal council. It is the headquarters of Palwal district, the 21st district of Haryana state in northern IndiaIt is situated at a distance of 60 km from Delhi on the Delhi-Mathura highway. The latitude of the town is 28° 40' N and longitude is 76° 59' E...
). State highways connect Rewari to all major towns in Haryana and adjacent districts of Rajasthan.
There are frequent bus services between Rewari and Delhi, as well as other towns of Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan.
Rewari steam locomotive shed
Rewari Steam Locomotive Shed is the only surviving steam loco shed in India housing some of India's last surviving steam locomotiveSteam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a railway locomotive that produces its power through a steam engine. These locomotives are fueled by burning some combustible material, usually coal, wood or oil, to produce steam in a boiler, which drives the steam engine...
s. Built in 1893, a decade before the Old Delhi Railway Station, it was the only loco shed in North India
North India
North India, known natively as Uttar Bhārat or Shumālī Hindustān , is a loosely defined region in the northern part of India. The exact meaning of the term varies by usage...
for a long time and part of the track connecting Delhi with Peshawar
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....
. After steam engines were phased out of Indian Railways in early 1990s, the shed remained in neglect for many years, before it was revived in December 2002 by Indian Railways as a heritage museum. The Rewari steamers have been rented out for various film shoots, and a part of the film Gandhi, My Father
Gandhi, My Father
Gandhi, My Father is a 2007 Indian film by Feroz Abbas Khan . It was produced by Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor, and released on 3 August 2007....
was shot here.
Ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games
2010 Commonwealth Games
The 2010 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games, were held in Delhi, India, from 3 to 14 October 2010. A total of 6,081 athletes from 71 Commonwealth nations and dependencies competed in 21 sports and 272 events, making it the largest Commonwealth Games till date...
, the shed was further refurbished as a heritage tourism
Heritage tourism
Cultural heritage tourism is a branch of tourism oriented towards the cultural heritage of the location where tourism is occurring...
destination, its heritage edifice was restored and a museum was added by the Indian Railways
Indian Railways
Indian Railways , abbreviated as IR , is a departmental undertaking of Government of India, which owns and operates most of India's rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India....
exhibiting Victorian-era artefacts used on the Indian rail network, along with the old signalling system, gramophones and seats. The engines will also be available for live demonstrations.
Education
Rewari has three degree colleges, two BEd colleges, thirteen secondary / higher secondary schools, one industrial training institute and one footwear training institute. Government Higher Secondary School was started in the year 1887. Hindu High School was started by the BhargavaBhargava
Bhargava is a common surname in Northern India and Maharashtra, mainly around Nashik. In Maharashtra, it is pronounced as Bhargave instead of Bhargava. It is also used as a first name in parts of southern India....
community in 1890 in the building now known as Bhargava Boarding House located near Bharawas Gate. The nearest college was in the nearby princely state of Alwar until independence. Ahir College was set up in 1945 by Rao Balbir Singh, a descendant of Rao Tula Ram. Kishanlal Public College is another educational institute. Shishu Shala was the first English school, established in 1950 in Model Town.
A Kendriya Vidyalaya
Kendriya Vidyalaya
Kendriya Vidyalaya, is a system of central government schools under the Ministry of Human Resource Development ....
(Central School) has existed in Rewari since 1980. A Sainik School
Sainik School
The Sainik Schools are a system of schools in India established and managed by the Sainik Schools Society. They were conceived in 1961 by V. K. Krishna Menon, the then Defence Minister of India, to rectify the regional and class imbalance amongst the Officer cadre of the Indian Military, and to...
is started in the year 2009. It is temporarily housed in Rewari city awaiting completion of construction of its permanent campus at village Pali-Gothra, west of the city.
A postgraduate regional centre of Rohtak University (MDU) has been set up in Mirpur village.
Several private colleges have been set up around Rewari in the last decade to teach engineering, management, law, and nursing though the quality of education in some of them is low as in the rest of the country.
Healthcare
Rewari city has a civil hospital run by the civil administration. It has fifty beds and the capacity has been planned to increase to one hundred beds. It also has a trauma centre for attending to accidents on highways. Indian Railways has a hospital near Rewari railway station. Rewari also has a number of private hospitals and nursing homes. Patients from villages come to Rewari for treatment. Rewari has an active branch of Indian Medical Association.Industry
Rewari town has a variety of industries, from cottage industries to small-scale integrated units. The traditional industries are brass metalwork and ornamental shoes (Tilledar Jooti) (The Hindi word jooti means a kind of low-rise shoe without laces. It does not cover ankles.) Rewari has kept the traditional art of Tilledar Jooti alive and is famous for such ornamental local shoes.Dharuhera-Bawal corridor on NH8
Proximity to Delhi led to development of industrial areas along NH8 from Dharuhera to Bawal in 1970s and 1980s. The growth of manufacturing units has created employment and wealth. Farmers benefited from acquisition or sale of land for industrial estates.Real estate development of agricultural land into houses and offices near Gurgaon town from 1970s to 1990s and further south-west towards Manesar
Manesar
Manesar/मानेसर is a fast growing industrial town in Gurgaon district of the State of Haryana in India, and is a part of the National Capital Region of Delhi. It has transformed from a sleepy village to one of the fastest growing townships in India. It is an upcoming area of NCR. Some of the...
in the current decade has led to similar development in Dharuhera
Dharuhera
Dharuhera is a census town in Rewari tehsil of Rewari district in the state of Haryana, India. Dharuhera comes under Delhi NCR region and it is an industrial hub.It was founded by Choudhary Nand Ram, a Yaduvanshi Ahir ruler of Rewari.-Geography:...
and adjacent Bhiwadi
Bhiwadi
-Demographics: India census, Bhiwadi had a population of 33,830. Males constitute 63% of the population and females 37%. Bhiwadi has an average literacy rate of 70%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 76% and female literacy of 53%...
of Alwar district of Rajasthan.. Sale of land has put huge amounts of money in the hands of farmers and changed their life style.
Rewari Town Regional Development Plan has earmarked about 40 sectors for residence, commerce and industry between Rewari town, NH8 and NH71B (the road connecting Rewari town to NH8). Most of the sectors fall in villages and private developers are buying agriculture land for development of plots and buildings. Some land has been acquired by the government and four residential sectors have been developed in Rewari city.
Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor
Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor ProjectDelhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project
The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project is a State-Sponsored Industrial Development Project of the Government of India. It is an ambitious project aimed at developing an Industrial Zone spanning across six states in India...
is a mega infra-structure project of USD 90 billion with the financial & technical aids from Japan, covering an overall length of 1,483 km between the political capital and the business capital of India, i.e., Delhi and Mumbai. It will initially link Rewari to Mumbai. The western part of DFC (Rewari-Delhi-Mumbai) is now under consideration and is estimated to cost Rs.240 billion (24,000 crore). It has been broken up into two phases, the first of which will extend from Rewari to Vadodara
Vadodara
Vadodara formerly known as Baroda is the third most populated city in the Indian State of Gujarat . It is one of the four cities with the population of over 1 million...
(Baroda) in Gujarat. A regional Mass Rapid Transport Service (MRTS) with a feeder service is likely to come up between Gurgaon and Rewari to enhance connectivity between Delhi and the developing manufacturing hubs in the NCR.
Rewari metal work
Rewari is famous for its traditional metalwork, particularly brass work. The brass industry began around 1535, with the help of PortuguesePortuguese people
The Portuguese are a nation and ethnic group native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion....
. During the time of Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya (Hemu) cannons were cast in Rewari for the army of Sher Shah Suri
Sher Shah Suri
Sher Shah Suri , birth name Farid Khan, also known as Sher Khan , was the founder of the short-lived Sur Empire in northern India, with its capital at Delhi, before its demise in the hands of the resurgent Mughal Empire...
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See also
- DharuheraDharuheraDharuhera is a census town in Rewari tehsil of Rewari district in the state of Haryana, India. Dharuhera comes under Delhi NCR region and it is an industrial hub.It was founded by Choudhary Nand Ram, a Yaduvanshi Ahir ruler of Rewari.-Geography:...
- Karoli, India
- LookhiLookhiLookhi is a village located in Kosli tehsil, Rewari district, Haryana.It is situated on the Kosli - Kanina road and is equidistant from both cities. It is a large village with an approximate population of 6000 to 8000. This village has an Arya Samaj temple. Over 25 residents of Lookhi participated...
- ManesarManesarManesar/मानेसर is a fast growing industrial town in Gurgaon district of the State of Haryana in India, and is a part of the National Capital Region of Delhi. It has transformed from a sleepy village to one of the fastest growing townships in India. It is an upcoming area of NCR. Some of the...
- PataudiPataudiPataudi is a town in Gurgaon district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is located from Gurgaon, at the foot hills of the Aravali hills.Pataudi was the seat of Pataudi State which was ruled by the Nawabs of Pataudi. The 8th Nawab, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, played cricket for both England and...
- Sardar Bahadur Tafazzul Hussain KhanSardar Bahadur Tafazzul Hussain KhanTafazzul Hussain Khan was a key army personnel during the 1857 revolt. He was Risaldar of a mounted troop during 1857 Indian revolt and was entitled, 'Captain' and ‘Sardar Bahadur’ by British India....
, Jagirdar - Bakshi Ghulam HaiderBakshi Ghulam HaiderKhan Bahadur Bakhshi Ghulam Haider Khan was Faujdar of a unit at the time of Battle of Assaye, which was a major battle of the Second Anglo-Maratha War under the command of Major General Arthur Wellesley . Latterly, he became the royal chief head of the military services hence called the Mir Bakhshi...
, Jagirdar