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Country
  
India

Region
  
Malwa

Time zone
  
IST (UTC+5:30)

Area
  
6.74 km²

Population
  
269,573 (2011)

Local time
  
Tuesday 12:46 PM

State
  
Madhya Pradesh

District
  
Ujjain

Telephone code
  
07367

Elevation
  
497 m

Area code
  
07367

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Weather
  
33°C, Wind SW at 6 km/h, 17% Humidity

Neighborhoods
  
Rehmani Colony, Teachers Colony, Mochipura

Badnagar or Barnagar(Hindi: बड़नगर) is a city, and a municipality in Ujjain district in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India . Badnagar is situated on the bank of river Chamla. Badnagar Tehsil Headquarters is Badnagar town. It belongs to Ujjain Division. It is located 45 km towards west from District headquarters Ujjain. 244 km from the state capital, Bhopal, towards the east and 72 km from Indore. Badnagar Tehsil is bounded by Badnawar Tehsil towards west, Depalpur Tehsil towards the south, Khachrod Tehsil towards North, Ujjain district towards the east. Indore City, Ujjain City, Ratlam City, Dhar City are the nearby cities to Badnagar. Badnagar consist of 196 villages and 108 Panchayats. This place is in the border of the Ujjain District and Dhar District. Dhar District, Badnawar, is west of this place.

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Map of Barnagar, Madhya Pradesh 456771

Badnagar is the birthplace of national poet Kavi Pradeep. Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee spent some of his childhood time in Badnagar. Another famous poet from Badnagar is Ibrahim Khan Gauri, the lyricist of hit movies of Rakesh Roshan like Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai and Koi... Mil Gaya.

Badnagar is also famous for its dishes, most famous among them being Bhutte ke Laddu, Dal Biscuit and for its guavas.

Barnagar is also famous for its fort Amla Fort.

Demographics

As of 2011 India census, Badnagar had a population of 2,69,573. Among all population no. of males are 1,37,685 and no. of females are 1,31,888. Number of literates in Badnagar are 1,69,935. Among all literates, the number of males is 1,00,562 and the number of females is 69,373. While the number of illiterates here is 99,638. 38,158 people of the population is under 6 years of age.

Climate

It is hot in summer. Badnagar summer highest day temperature is in between 30 °C to 42 °C .

Average temperatures of January is 19 °C , February is 22 °C , March is 28 °C , April is 32 °C , May is 35 °C

Transportation

Badnagar is well connected by road and rail with cities like Ujjain, Indore and Ratlam. state highway 18 (dewas to badnawar). Passes through Badnagar which connects it with Ujjain, Bhopal, Dewas and Ahmedabad via Dahod. Badnagar railway station is situated on ratlam-indore section of indian railways. Nearest airport is Indore airport.

Bank

Badnagar has branches of following banks :

  1. ICICI Bank
  2. Bank Of India
  3. Punjab National Bank
  4. Bank Of Baroda
  5. Union Bank Of India
  6. UCO Bank
  7. Canara Bank
  8. Oriental Bank Of India
  9. HDFC Bank
  10. FEDERAL Bank
  11. IDBI Bank

Badnagar has ATM facilities throughout the city.

Education

Educational institutes in Barnagar are pretty good up to higher secondary school level. Schools teaching in both English and Hindi medium are present here. There are two colleges in Barnagar- Govt. college,barnagar.

Schools

  1. Saraswati Vidhya Mandir
  2. Unique Public School
  3. St. Thomas Hr. Sec. School
  4. Jain Public School
  5. Vidhyanjali International School
  6. St.Martin School

Colleges

  1. Govt. College Barnagar
  2. navyug college

Health

Many people from nearby cities come to Badnagar for cheap medical treatment of kidney stones and other surgeries. Barnagar is well-known for its treatment of paralysis. Some hospitals are:

  1. Geeta Hospital
  2. Civil Hospital
  3. City Hospital
  4. ashok hospital
  5. Gupta hospital

Culture

Barnagar is multi-religional place where everybody lives with unity. Barnagar has many temples, mosques, gurudwaras and churches. 1 adinath jain shwetambar temple 2 fakhri masjid (dawoodi bohra 2 (Rehmani choti masjid ) 3( Badi masjid mochipura ) 4( Darulum gosia masjid)

References

Badnagar Wikipedia