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Malout | |
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Coordinates: 30°11′24″N74°29′56″E / 30.190°N 74.499°E | |
Country | India |
State | Punjab |
District | Muktsar |
Government | |
• Type | Municipal Council |
• Body | Malout Municipal Council |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 81,406 |
Languages | |
• Official | Punjabi, Hindi |
Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
PIN | 152107 [1] |
Telephone code | 1637 |
Vehicle registration | PB-53 |
Malout is a town, just outside of Muktsar Sahib city in the Muktsar district of the Indian state of Punjab. It is in the southern Punjab "cotton belt", where production per kilometer is one of the highest in India. Malout is on NH-354 and NH-9 and NH-7, which connects Fazilka to New Delhi. The boundaries of Haryana and Rajasthan are 30 kilometres (19 mi) and 65 kilometres (40 mi), respectively, from the town. Malout is 55 kilometres (34 mi) from the border with Pakistan, and has been affected by military incidents. Malout is also well known for the MIMIT college in which students from all over India comes to pursue UG and PG degrees. Malout Institute of Management and Information Technology (MIMIT), A Government Engineering and Management College in Malout, affiliated to I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, and approved by AICTE.
Bhatti Rajputs founded a fort Malout here. Before Partition 1947, it was the village Of Muslim Bhatti Rajputs. The Britishers set up a base there to import and export glucose which Indians call normally mal to Karachi. At that time this city was very famous as Mal out centre.
Malout was founded 400–500 years ago, and the origin of its name is uncertain. In 1917, the British government established the Bathinda–Karachi railway line; the Malout railway station was built the following year. The town was incorporated on 19 March 1920. A seven-member committee purchased land, which was divided into shopping and residential areas.[ citation needed ]
On 17 November 1921, Firozpur district commissioner J. C. Koldsitrimiu established a water-storage and -purification tank system in Malout. Edward, Prince of Wales, visited the region that day and the system was named in his honour.[ citation needed ]
Malout began growing, and the town had a post office, telephone exchange, guest house and cemetery by the end of 1940. With cotton producers and the agricultural machinery industry, Malout and its nearby villages were known as the cotton capital of Punjab. [2] [ failed verification ]
The region's temperature varies widely by season. Summer temperatures reach 48–50 °C (118–122 °F), and winter temperatures fall to 1–2 °C (34–36 °F). The western Himalayas in the north and the Thar Desert in the south and southwest primarily determine the climate. The south-western monsoon brings nearly 70 percent of the annual rainfall from June to September. Most of the district has an arid (tropic) moisture regime, according to soil-classification criteria. Soil-moisture computations using the Newhall mathematical model indicate that the region has a "weak aridic" moisture regime (Van Wambeke, 1985).[ full citation needed ]
[diljeet]], MLA of Malout Assembly Constituency, was elected in 2022.
Municipal committee does not own any land or any place but despite than committee asks for annual rent of the shops near by area shops of Municipal committee. Legally committee has no right to ask any rent against any shop.
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