Rampur Maniharan is a town and a nagar panchayat

Nagar Panchayat

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 in Saharanpur district

Saharanpur District

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 in the India

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 of Uttar Pradesh

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Rampur Maniharan is situated 22 km from Saharanpur

Saharanpur

Saharanpur is a city and a Municipal Corporation in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. It is the administrative headquarters of Saharanpur District as well as Saharanpur Division...

 on the Saharanpur-Delhi highway, and has bus and rail connections to Delhi

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. There are several colleges in Rampur Maniharan, including the Ram Rati Gupta Polytechnic. Students from many different states attend for higher education in agriculture and sciences.

Education

The town has Agriculture College,Gocher Krishi Inter College(G.K.I.C.) and Gochar Mahavidyalaya(G.M.V.) which is managed by the Akhil Bhartiya Gurjar Vidya Pracharini Sabha,an organisation of the Gurjar Community. The land for this college was donated by the former Raja of Landhaura, Pradhan Shri Maharaj Singh Verma,a Gurjar. The colleges were founded by the eminent social reformer, Ch. Multan Singh Verma, without whom this was impossible.

Demographics

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, Rampur Maniharan had a population of 24,811. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Rampur Maniharan has an average literacy rate of 56%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 64%, and female literacy is 47%. In Rampur Maniharan, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age. The people of Rampur Maniharan are predominantly Muslims, Gujjars. There are about 95 Villages of Gujjar gautra Panwar (Khubbad) around the town. Famous villages near Rampur are Nalhera Gujjar, Ghathera, Jandehra, Slempur, Mundikheri, Chakwali, Jagrolly,Umri Kalan etc.