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Food & Cuisines
Nagda has a variety of foods and cuisines. City starts its day with the Tea, Poha, Jalebi, Samosa & kachodi.
The Ratlami Sev is a common snacks often serves with meal and dinner. Dal baati is the food of the
MALWA. It is commonly served at all festivities, including religious occasions, wedding ceremonies, and
parties . "Dal-Baati ", is a combination of two different food items - Dal (lentils), Baati. It is a typical
Malwa dish. Dal is made of lentils and can be little bit spicy. Baati baked or a grilled ball of wheat flour
dough.Ghee is an important ingredient in all the two items.
Social Activities
People of city often show their commitments and interests in the social welfare and social activities.
Currently bunch of NGOs like SNEH (Special Need Education Home), Social welfare clubs like Lions
Club Nagda are being run in city since many years.Apart away of them many local platforms like Kirana
Vayapari Sang,Jeevdaya Manav Smiti are also available which represent their commitments towards the
mankind. These clubs are conducting various charity programs like 'Rehabilitation camps','Free heath
checkups', 'Blood banks','Free distribution of Handicapped Tricycle for disabled people','Water huts','Free
Study material distribution for poor children's','Free food facility in the hospitals' &'Free blanket
distribution program for homeless people' etc.
Education
People of Nagda are very conscious about education for their childrens. City has many schools like
AGOSHDEEP International Public School (http://www.agoshdeep.com/AERP/), Bharat commerce school,
Aditiya Birla Public School,Fatima Convent School,Grasim HS School,jigyasa convent school, Global
Academy,Gurukul vidhya mandir H.S. School.In which ABPS School is the pioneer of many successful
people of malwa region and across the country.
Higher Education
Most colleges in Nagda are affiliated to the Vikram University .City's most prominent college isNagda
Government College near Rupeta village.
Jobs
The main source of the jobs is Grasim industries. Apart away of jobs people do own business like retail
stores . Nagda has sufficient numbers of transports corporations and ferms to fulfill demand and supply of
industrial raw materials in the area. Youths of the city have to go outside for higher study and job search
due to lack of opportunities. Now City has affected by Brain Drain. Most of the youth are heading towards
Indore, Pune, Bangalore, Delhi, and Mumbai for better opportunities.
Picnic Spots
Nagda has many good Picnic spots like Birla Mandir, Atal Garden, Banbna Taalab, Mukestewar Mahadev
Mandir, DelanPur, & Nayan Dam.
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Transportation
Railway
Nagda is situated on the basin of river Chambal. It is an important halt for all trains that are bound for
Jaipur, Mumbai,Delhi & Bhopal. The main lines passing through Nagda Junction are : Mumbai- New
Delhi line via Kota Junction ( broad gauge line).
Air
Nagda has a one Air strip which is rarely used by Grasim Management & Politician at their visit. The
nearest airport locates in Indore above 110 KM from the city.
Road
The Road Transport has improved a lot after many efforts of local leaders Thaverchand Gehlot (Cabinet
minister in the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment in Narendra Modi's government 2014 )Dilip
Gurjar (Ex MLA)& Dilip Shekhawat(MLA).
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Now Nagda has better and easy connectivity with NH79 via
jaora. The distance between Nagda and other important cities are following : Nagda to Indore 110KM
(Time 2:15 Hours) Nagda to Ujjain 60 KM (Time 1:00 Hour ) Nagda to Ratlam 44 KM (Time 0:45 Hour )
Nagda to Jaora 42 KM (Time 0:40 Hour )
Pollution
Due to having a major industrial area. City is continuously affected by Air pollution and it has become
serious concern for people.It is causing of many diseases and damaging to other living organisms such as
food crops around city area.
References
1. ^ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including
cities, villages and towns (Provisional)"
(http://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999).
Census Commission of India. Archived from the original (http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?
stad=A&state5=999) on 2004-06-16. Retrieved 2008-11-01.
2. ^ matter of discussion, these names are being written for their good political will, not for any political advantages
and it should be consider for betterment of an area.
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