Jagraon

Jagraon is a town and a municipal council, a rural police district and a sub-division of the Ludhiana district in the Indian state of Punjab. Jagraon is more than three centuries old. It has been thought that the city's original name was Jagar aon, meaning "a place of great flooding", although this flooding has since ceased. It could also be argued that Jagraon actually derives from a source with a suffix "-graon" being a development of the Sanskrit Grama, meaning "village" as found in the Hindi word Gaon. Jagraon is at almost the geographical centre of Punjab state, 16km from the River Satluj. It is 37km from its district headquarters Ludhiana, 29km from Moga, 31km from Nakodar, and 55km from Barnala.