Malout is a town, just outside of Muktsar Sahib city in the Muktsar district of the Indian state of Punjab. It is in the southern Punjab "cotton belt", where production per kilometer is one of the highest in India. Malout is on NH-354 and NH-9 and NH-7, which connects Fazilka to New Delhi. The boundaries of Haryana and Rajasthan are 30 kilometres (19 mi) and 65 kilometres (40 mi), respectively, from the town. Malout is 55 kilometres (34 mi) from the border with Pakistan, and has been affected by military incidents.

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Malout
Town
National Highway 9 in Malout, Muktsar district, Punjab, India
Malout Location in Punjab, India
Coordinates: 30.190°N 74.499°E / 30.190; 74.499
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Muktsar
Government
• Type	Municipal Council
• Body	Malout Municipal Council
Population  (2011)
• Total	81,406
Languages
• Official	Punjabi, Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	152107[1]
Telephone code	1637
Vehicle registration	PB-53

History

Royals of Bajaj caste founded a fort here, Kacha Kot, leading to popular name Bajaj Fort. With the passage of time people started calling the city Bajaj Mahal and later Malout.

The Britishers set up a base there to import and export glucose which Indians call normally mal to Karachi. At that time this city was very famous as Mal out centre.

Malout was founded 400–500 years ago, and the origin of its name is uncertain. In 1917, the British government established the Bathinda–Karachi railway line; the Malout railway station was built the following year. The town was incorporated on 19 March 1920. A seven-member committee purchased land, which was divided into shopping and residential areas.^{[citation needed]}

On 17 November 1921, Firozpur district commissioner J. C. Koldsitrimiu established a water-storage and -purification tank system in Malout. Edward, Prince of Wales, visited the region that day and the system was named in his honour.^{[citation needed]}

Malout began growing, and the town had a post office, telephone exchange, guest house and cemetery by the end of 1940. With cotton producers and the agricultural machinery industry, Malout and its nearby villages were known as the cotton capital of Punjab.[2]^{[failed verification]}

Climate

The region's temperature varies widely by season. Summer temperatures reach 48–50 °C (118–122 °F), and winter temperatures fall to 1–2 °C (34–36 °F). The western Himalayas in the north and the Thar Desert in the south and southwest primarily determine the climate. The south-western monsoon brings nearly 70 percent of the annual rainfall from July to September. Most of the district has an arid (tropic) moisture regime, according to soil-classification criteria. Soil-moisture computations using the Newhall mathematical model indicate that the region has a "weak aridic" moisture regime (Van Wambeke, 1985).^{[full citation needed]}

Political representation

Baljit Kaur, MLA of Malout Assembly Constituency, was elected in 2022.

Commerce and industry

Malout is known for its agricultural-equipment manufacturing industry. Agricultural equipment made in the town is sold throughout Punjab and the rest of India. Other major industries in the region are cotton cultivation and apparel manufacturing; the clothing business in Malout dates back several centuries.^{[citation needed]}

Education

Malout Institute of Management and Information Technology is a government engineering college, and Guru Teg Bahadur Khalsa Institute of Engineering and Technology is a private college. The town has government senior secondary schools for boys and girls, and a number of English-language private schools. D. A. V. Edward Ganj Senior Secondary Public School is one of Malout's oldest schools. Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa Senior Secondary School and S. D. Senior Secondary School are the oldest private schools, and Sacred Heart Convent School offers an ICSE curriculum. The D.A.V. College Managing Committee offers graduate and post-graduate courses.^{[citation needed]}

Notable residents

• Rohit Bansal, chief executive officer and co-founder of Snapdeal[3]
• Kamalpreet Kaur, Indian Athlete^{[citation needed]}

References

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