14 Facts About Kanpur

Kanpur or Cawnpore is an industrial city in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India.

Nestled on the banks of Ganges River, Kanpur stands as the major financial and industrial centre of North India and the ninth-largest urban economy in India.

Kanpur was an important British garrison town until 1947, when India gained independence.

In 2018, Kanpur was considered by the World Health Organization as the city with the world's worst air pollution.

Kanpur division which consists of seven districts, and is headed by the divisional commissioner of Kanpur, who is an Indian Administrative Service officer of high seniority, the commissioner is the head of local government institutions in the division, is in charge of infrastructure development in his division, and is responsible for maintaining law and order in the division.

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Kanpur district administration is headed by the district magistrate of Kanpur, who is an IAS officer.

Kanpur municipality was established on 22 November 1861, and was upgraded to a municipal corporation in 1959.

The local government of Kanpur is governed under the Municipal act for the state, Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959.

Kanpur is a notified metropolitan area by UP Government under Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and therefore has a chief metropolitan magistrate, who is assisted by several metropolitan magistrates.

The current ADG, Kanpur Zone is Avanish Chandra, and IG, Kanpur Range is Alok Singh.

The city of Kanpur has one representative member of parliament in Lok Sabha for Kanpur, Satyadev Pachauri.

Kanpur Central is a major railhead and is among the busiest railway stations in the country.

UPSRTC Inter State Bus Station of Kanpur officially named as the "Shaheed Major Salman Khan Bus Station".

Altough all the efforts were made for better education still Kanpur is far backward in the sense of future prosper of the students as the large number of students are unable to speak english language and compel to work in the private sector with low salary amount.