Friday 8 April 2011

Jind

Jind is a small town located in the Haryana state in the Indian Nation. Jind is one of the oldest districts of the state and this fact makes the town important from the historical and political point of view. The Jind district is one of the four major districts falling in the Jat belt. Most of the natives of this place are known as Jat who does the agriculture activities mainly. In the pre independence times, the town was a princely state of the province. It is assumed that the town had existed since the times of Pandava's, which were the incarnations of God in the pre historic times. The famous Jayanti Devi Temple in the town is supposed to be built by the Pandava's during the Mahabharata war.

Located at an average elevation of 227 meters, the town is mostly flatland and has big agricultural farmlands. The town had remained the capital of the province for a long time and it was a princely state famous because of its ruler Raja Gajpat Singh who ruled it till 17789. The rulers changed since then many a times and the last ruler of the town was Maharaja Sir Ranbir Singh Rajendra Bahadur.

The Jind district is one of the most famous industrial areas of the country. The small town has many small and medium sized industrial establishments. The town hosts a milk plant and a bottling plant of the top oil marketing company of the country. Other than the above stated large industrial plants, the town boasts of several other industries like paper, oil, flour mils, metal, gypsum board, disposal syringes and needles, steel and leather etc. Jind is also famous for its home grown businesses that have employed almost every villager and provided them with a permanent source of income.

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