?Ulhasnagar Maharashtra • India
Ulhasnagar
Coordinates: 19°13′N 73°09′E / 19.22, 73.15
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
Area • Elevation	• 19 m (62 ft)
District(s)	Thane
Population	472,943 (2001)
Codes • Pincode • Telephone • Vehicle	• 421001-5 • +STD code 0251 • MH-05
Website: www.umc.gov.in

Coordinates: 19°13′N 73°09′E / 19.22, 73.15 Ulhasnagar is a city located on coast of the West India, approximately 60 kilometers (37 miles) northeast of the City of Mumbai (Bombay), in the Thane district in the state of Maharashtra. Ulhasnagar, also referred as Sindhunagar, has an estimated population of 472,943 people (2001)^[1]. The name derives from the Ulhas river which flows through it. , Maharashtra (Marathi: महाराष्ट्र , IPA:  , English: ) is Indias third largest state in terms of area and second largest in terms of population after Uttar Pradesh. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Locator_Dot. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... A time zone is a region of the Earth that has adopted the same standard time, usually referred to as the local time. ... Location of Mirzapur and the 82. ... The geography of India is diverse, with landscape ranging from snow-capped mountain ranges to deserts, plains, rainforests, hills, and plateaus. ... Basic Definition In geography, the elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or some other fixed point). ... The divisions of a district. ... Thane is a district in northern Maharashtra in India. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 - A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall appears in Seattles Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous... A Postal Index Number or PIN or Pincode is the post office numbering or post code system used by the Indian Postal Service (similar to the ZIP Code in the United States). ... For the past decade or so, telecommunication activities have gained momentum in India. ... Licence plates on the back of a taxi in Kolkata. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... A map of West India. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ... , “Bombay” redirects here. ... Thane is a district in northern Maharashtra in India. ... India is a federal republic comprised of twenty-eight states and seven union territories. ... , Maharashtra (Marathi: महाराष्ट्र , IPA:  , English: ) is Indias third largest state in terms of area and second largest in terms of population after Uttar Pradesh. ... The Ulhas River is a river of western India. ...

Over the years, the city has grown a reputation for lawlessness, and is known for its gang warfare; it is said that "There was a time when there would be a killing in Ulhasnagar every Tuesday."^[2] While it's image has improved in recent times, it remains one of the cities that has continuously sent a gangster to the legislature; don Pappu Kalani has won four state elections here, two of them while he was in jail on charges including several murders^[3]. Pappu Kalani (b. ...

Geography and Demographics

Ulhasnagar is located at 19.22° N 73.15° E^[4]. It has an average elevation of 19 metres (62 feet). The metre (American English:meter) is a measure of length. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ...

As of 2001 India census^GRIndia, Ulhasnagar had a population of 472,943. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Ulhasnagar has an average literacy rate of 76%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 80%, and female literacy is 70%. In Ulhasnagar, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age. 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 - A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall appears in Seattles Magnuson Park, placed by an anonymous... 1870 US Census for New York City A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ...

History

After the partition of India, over 100,000 Sindhi refugees from the newly created West Pakistan were relocated to deserted military camps five kilometres from Kalyan. The area was converted into a township in 1949, and named Ulhasnagar by the then Governor-general of India, C. Rajagopalachari. This article is under construction. ... Sindhis (सिन्धी, سنڌي) are an Indo-Aryan language speaking socio-ethnic group of people originating in Sindh which is part of present day Pakistan. ... Kalyan (Marathi: कल्याण) is a city in the part of the Konkan (or Kokan) region included in Maharashtra state, and a major railway junction in the vicinity of Mumbai, India. ... The Governor-Generals Flag (1885–1947) depicted the Star of India on a Union Flag. ... Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari (Tamil: சக்ரவர்தி ராஜகோபாலாச்சாரி) (b. ...

A suburban railway station was built in 1955. Five years later in January 1960 Ulhasnagar Municipality was formed, with Arjun K. Ballani as first chief, and a municipal council was nominated. In 1965, elections to this council were held for the first time. Now this 22 square kilometer area has 350,000 people of Sindhi descent, the largest enclave of this ethnic group in India. The town lies outside Mumbai city but within the Mumbai Conurbation. , “Bombay” redirects here. ... The Mumbai Conurbation comprises the metropolitan city of Mumbai, its six sister cities - Thane, Navi Mumbai, Mira-Bhayandar, Kalyan-Dombivali, Ulhasnagar and Bhiwandi-Nizampur as well as several other towns and villages. ...

The Sindhi community flourished as a business group, though it became well known for its duplicate products, often on the borders of legality for a good part of the 70s and 80s ‘Made in USA’ meant ‘Made in Ulhasnagar Sindhi Association’. While this helped the local businesses flourish for a while, the city was seen as nothing more than a counterfeiters’ paradise and soon the rot set in. Illegal construction, unauthorized industrial units and high levels of pollution, all began to plague the town^[5].

Business grew, and the Ulhasnagar turnover was estimated at Rs. 1,000 crores (US$ 200 million) in 1995. The duplicate goods image is largely gone today, but the lawlessness continued, particularly in illegal construction, unauthorized industrial units, and high levels of pollution. Consequently, politicians started to charge money to look the other way, and by 1999, each corporator in the municipality was said to be making 5 to ten lakhs in "protection money"^[6]. RS has different meanings depending on the context: Republika Srpska, one of the two political entities that compose the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ... A crore is a unit in the Indian numbering system, still widely used in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan. ...

Gang Wars

Naturally musclepower and organized crime also emerged, often under political patronage. The president of the local unit of Indian National Congress, Dudhichand Kalani, and his brother Keemat Kalani, who ran a number of liquor distilleries, employed a gang headed by Chiman Tejwani^[5], while the opposing parties, under politician Gop Behrani, employed the services of Govind Vachani and Gopal Rajwani. It is reported that both gangs were connected to the Dawood Ibrahim gang. Use was also made of the media, and hush money were regularly paid to journalists^[6]. Violence flared up occasionally, and a journalist was hacked to death in August 1983. Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party and abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. ... Gopal Rajwani (d. ... Dawood Ibrahim ( दाऊद ईबराहिम ) (b. ...

In April 1989, Dudhichand Kalani was murdered, allegedly by the Vachani gang. This led to reprisal killings - as many as 22 murders in five months ^[5]. A figure that emerged in this gang warfare was Pappu Kalani, the nephew of Dudhichand, who soon took over the Tejwani gang. Pappu Kalani joined the Indian National Congress, while rival gangster Gopal Rajwani joined the Shiv Sena. In April 1985, Pappu Kalani had Gopal arrested in an extortion case ^[7], and Rajwani eventually jumped bail and went to Dubai under Dawood Ibrahim's protection. Pappu Kalani (b. ... Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party and abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. ... Gopal Rajwani (d. ... SS election symbol Shiv Sena or शिव सेना (meaning Army of Shiva, referring to Shiva) is a political party in India founded on June 19, 1966 by Bal Thackeray, who is the president of the party. ... Dawood Ibrahim ( दाऊद ईबराहिम ) (b. ...

In 1986, Pappu Kalani was elected president of the Ulhasnagar Municipal Council (UMC), and the same year, he joined the state legislature as a candidate of the Indian National Congress. Indian National Congress (also known as the Congress Party and abbreviated INC) is a major political party in India. ...

In February and April 1990, nephews of Gop Behrani, Ghanashyam and Inder Bhateja were shot dead, despite having been given state police protection^[8]. In 1992, when the political winds changed, Pappu Kalani was arrested for these murders and in eight other cases, and he was jailed under the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA). He spent nine years in jail. However, since he has not been sentenced to more than two years for any crime by a court, he was free to fight elections. Thus, despite being in jail, he kept winning the assembly seat from Ulhasnagar. The Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, commonly known as TADA, was an Indian law active between 1985 and 1995 (modified in 1987) for the prevention of terrorist activities. ...

Meanwhile, in January 2000, arch rival Gopal Rajwani was shot dead in a hail of bullets as he was coming out of a car at the magistrate's court to attend a case^[7].

In 2004, Pappu Kalani again won the assembly elections, as a candidate of the Republican Party of India (Athavale)^[2]. The Republican Party of India (Athvale) is a political party in India, a splinter group of the old Ambedkarite Republican Party of India. ...

In 2005, the Bombay High Court ordered the demolition of 855 illegal structures, Pappu Kalani, whose livelihood depended on permitting illegal constructions, passed a law permitting most of them to be legalized^[9].

In the municipal elections of 2007, despite very little electioneering by opposing groups, Pappu Kalani's group mustered only 15 seats (out of 76) in the election, and it is thought that the influence of musclepower may have waned considerably in Ulhasnagar^[10].

References

1. ^ Mumbai Councils
2. ^ ^{a b} Dionne Bunsha. "The States: Dons in a new role", The Hindu, 2004-12-17. Retrieved on 2007-05-24. 
3. ^ Tanushree Chakraborty. "Pappu Kalani is free: bluster intact, not his base", Indian Express, September 06, 2001. Retrieved on 2007-05-24. 
4. ^ Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Ulhasnagar
5. ^ ^{a b c} Girish Kuber. "Pappu's Ulhasnagar gambit may backfire", Economic Times, 2007-01-09. Retrieved on 2007-05-24. 
6. ^ ^{a b} Yogesh Pawar. "Three Ps rule Ulhas: Pelf, Politicians & Pappu", Indian Express, 1999-03-03. Retrieved on 2007-05-24. 
7. ^ ^{a b} Jake Khan, Ulhasnagar. "Sena leader Gopal Rajwani shot dead", India Abroad, 2000-01-25. Retrieved on 2007-05-27. 
8. ^ "Tada charges against Kalani dropped in Bhateja murders", Indian Express, 1999-10-28. Retrieved on 2007-05-24. 
9. ^ Pappu Kalani : Hero of Ulhasnagar (December 28, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-05-24.
10. ^ "Beginning of the end for Kalanis?", Indian Express, 2007-02-09. Retrieved on 2007-05-24. 

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External links

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• Ulhasnagar Online Business Directory
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