Pilkhuwa

Pilkhuwa is a town and a municipal board in Hapur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.It is famous for its textile product specially bedsheet. According to the myths city got its name in British age, there was an elephant named PIL, and it was lost, when the queen soldiers were running here and there in search of the PIL (Elephant), village people used to ask what happened, they used to replied in short PIL Khuwa ( PIL Kho Gaya < PIL is lost>)the place where the queen elephant was lost named Pilkhuwa. It is mainly included in Hapur city.DemographicsAccording to the 2011 census Pilkhuwa had a population of 83,736. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Pilkhuwa has an average literacy rate of 62%, lower than the national average of 74.04%: male literacy is 71%, and female literacy is 52%. In Pilkhuwa, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.HistoryIn British India Pilkhuwa was purchased by Mr. Michael along with Meerut. Before 1976 pilkhuwa was under Meerut district on the birth anniversary of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first prime minister of India.Then chief minister Mr. N.D. Tiwari declared Ghaziabad as a district on 14 November 1976. Later on Ghaziabad was divided in two districts as Ghaziabad and Panchsheel Nagar by Bahujan Samaj Party chief minister Mayawati on 28 September 2011 and now pilkhuwa was part of Panchsheel Nagar.But Panchsheel Nagar was the newly given name to the city Hapur by Mayawati people were unhappy because of changing original name of the city. Due to political clash between Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party later on chief minister Akhilesh Yadav changed the district name to Hapur on 23 July 2012 retained the original name and finally pilkhuwa is part of district Hapur.