Kandela

Kandela is a village in Shamli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.It is located on the Shamli-Panipat highway. It is around 100 km from Delhi, 32 km from Panipat,72 from Meerut and 71 km from Saharanpur. The nearest towns are Shamli and Kairana nearest towns at a distance of 6 km each, connected by a 2 km long sub-road to the Shamli-Panipat highway. Kandela includes four patties (small independent villages), i.e. Kandela, Shekhupura, Hingokhedi and Jaganpur. They are under tahshils named Shamli and Kairana. They have independent local administrative bodies. In this village all modern facilities are available such as banks, Girls Intermediate college, many government and private schools, co-operative society, veterinary hospital, mandi samiti, and even local radio frequency, RCC roads,water tank, 33/11 Kv Sub-Power station & Water supply system etc. In this village there is a higher education college for girls Ch. Man singh government girls college. Peace in Kandela that used to be the talk of the day is now seeming reality. People are very education conscious and value education a lot.The population of this village is approximately 14500 and sex ratio is about 850 and 17 castes live there like Gurjar (chauhan), Bairagi (Syami), Jhimmar (Kashyap), Muslims (Sekh and Dhobi), Baniye/aggarwal (JINDAL), Jains, Chamars(dalit), Bhangis(valmiki), Darji (tailor), Dhobi (washerman), Nayi (barber), Luhars (iron smith), Badhais (carpenter), Sunar (goldsmith), Brahmans, Jogis and Bhat.