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Chandauli is a town and a nagar panchayat in Chandauli district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Chandauli District.
Geography
Chandauli is located at Template:Coord.[1] It has an average elevation of Template:Convert. It comes under Varanasi division of Uttar Pradesh. It is located about 30 kilometers from Varanasi. Mughalsarai, a major railway junction between Northern and Eastern India is located in Chandauli district. Chandauli Majhwar railway station serves Chandauli.
Media
Gaon Giraw is the first weekly and first daily Hindi newspaper of the district. Chandauli Samachar is the first online portal of the district.
Notable people
- Rajnath Singh, current Defense Minister of India and former Home Minister of India, born in Bhabhaura, a small village in Chandauli District
- Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India, born in Mughalsarai
- Babu Prasiddh Narain Singh, first graduate of Varanasi and founder of boarding houses in more than 28 districts in North India. First MLC from Banaras (1921) , first elected chairman of Banaras District Board.Administrator of Chaupansi Collage , Jodhpur ; RBS collage , Agra; Udai Pratap Singh Collage, Varanasi. Founder-editor of 'Kshatriya-Mitra' published from Varanasi/Kashi(U.P.)
Distance of Chandauli from important cities
- Varanasi – 30 km
- Allahabad – 155 km
- Gwalior – 623 km
- Lucknow- 320 km
- Kanpur – 350 km
- Ghazipur – 50 km
- Mirzapur – 80 km
- Jaunpur – 90 km
- Azamgarh – 125 km
- Gorakhpur – 210 km
- Patna – 230 km
- Gaya – 230 km
- Ranchi – 400 km
- Jharsuguda – 824 km
- New Delhi – 810 km
- Kolkata – 670 km
- Madhupur Sonbhadra – 85 km
- Parasi Kalan – 15 km
References
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