Kekri
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Kekri is a city and a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in Ajmer district
Ajmer district
Ajmer District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The city of Ajmer is the district headquarters.Ajmer District has an area of 8,481 km², and a population of 2,180,526 ,Three main groups are; Hindu 1,869,044, Muslim 244,341, Jains 47,812...

 in the India
India
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n state
States and territories of India
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 of Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

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Geography

Kekri is located at 25.97°N 75.15°E.

Earlier this city was known as Kankawati Nagari, named on the Name of princess kankawati, but now it is known as Kekri.This city is a pioneer in the field of religious, education and games.

Eminent scholar of Jain philosophy pandit Milapchand Kataria research work and for writing kekri City is well known throughout the country.

In village Baghera Digamber Jain temple of Sri Shantinath bhagwan is well known in the India. Here for Popularity away Shraddhaloo come continuously.Here was established chamatkari pratima of Sri Shantinath bhagwan is khadkasan in The temple.

It is having mainly an industrial area, Agricultural Mandi (Market Yard), Oil Mills, Woolen yarn mills and some Other industries.

There are so many Mandirs (temples) like Charbhuja Mandir, Bijasan Mata Mandir,shri, shantinath ji digambar Jain Mandir, Laxminath Ji Mandir, Shiv Mandir,Kekradheesh Mandir, mehandipur balaji mandir etc.

The main source of water supply is Bisalpur Dam
Bisalpur Dam
Bisalpur Dam is a gravity dam on the Banas River near Deoli in Tonk district, Rajasthan, India. The dam was completed in 1999 for the purpose of irrigation and water supply....

. Here for Bisalpur Dam Rajasthan's largest water filter plant has been established.

It is centrally situated among Rajsthan's major cities Ajmer, Jaipur, Kota, Bhilwara and Tonk..

There is Govt. Sr. sec. School (separate for boys and girls),M.L.D. school, Govt. College, Alok Science College, Gurukul Commerce and Art Collage, ITI. BEd. and lots of other English and Hindi medium schools.

There are many other institutes also for computers and other courses like Krishna Computers.
There is one health care center or Govt. Hospital and other private nursing homes are also nearly located to it.

There are Two Local News Channels.

Kekri is 80KM from Ajmer and 130KM from Jaipur.

Demographics

Kekri had a population of 34,129. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Kekri has an average literacy rate of %, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 74%, and female literacy is 51%. In Kekri, 15% of the population is under 6 years of age. now coming soon IT Hub at kekri

There are 10 mobile network - BSNL, Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Reliance, Tata Indicom, Tata Docomo, MTS India, Cheers, and Aircel.
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