PILKHUWA

About Pilkhuwa

Pilkhuwa is a city and a municipal board in Ghaziabad district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.It is famous for its textile product specially bedsheet. According to the myths city got its name in British age, there was an elephant named PIL, and it was lost, when the queen soldiers were running here and there in search of the PIL (Elephant), village people used to ask what happened, they used to replied in short PIL Khuwa ( PIL Khoo Gaya < PIL is lost>)the place where the queen elephant was lost named Pilkhuwa. ==Demographics and Facilities== As of 2001 India census"Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. http://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5;=999. Retrieved 2008-11-01., Pilkhuwa had a population of 67,191 (2001). Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Pilkhuwa has an...