OVERVIEW:

Dhampur  a small city and municipal board in Bijnor district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is located on the way of haridwar to moradabad at 29.30°N 78.50°E, and lies in Northern India. It is best known as the sugar processing area where the sugar factories operate processing raw sugarcane into refined sugar. One of the largest sugar industry THE DHAMPUR SUGAR MILLS LTD. originated from here. Beside this Dhampur is also known for RSM DEGREE COLLEGE which is amongst oldest Agriculture institutes in india.

HISTORY :

In 1805, Dhampur was sacked by Pindaris. The well known Indian sugar company Dhampur Sugar Mills first started operations with the established of a sugar mill having a crushing capacity of 300 tonnes of cane per day in 1933.

DEMOGRAPHIC:

As of 2001 India census,^[3] Dhampur had a population of 46,855. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Dhampur has an average literacy rate of 65%: male literacy is 68% and female literacy is 60%. In Dhampur, 15% of the population is under 6 years of age.As of the 2011 Census of India Dhampur Husainpur is a Census Town city in district of Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh.The town has population of 6,752 of which 3,567 are males while 3,185 are females. Population of Children with age of 0-6 is 1001 which is 14.83 % of total population. The Female Sex Ratio is of 893 against state average of 912. Moreover Child Sex Ratio is around 918 compared to Uttar Pradesh state average of 902. Literacy rate is 71.55%, higher than state average of 67.68%. Male literacy is around 76.75 % while female literacy rate is 65.71%. The town has total administration over 1,166 houses.

INDUSTRIES:

Most of Dhampur's economy is based on agriculture, mainly sugarcane, wheat, and rice. Hand-woven textile items produced by the weavers living in surrounding areas are known for their utility and designs. The State Government set up a Handloom Intensive Development Project at Dhampur and several production centres are located in the area, with its central office headquartered at Kanpur. One of the largest sugar producers in India, Dhampur Sugar Mills, is located here. Set up in 1933, Dhampur Sugar Mills is a publicly listed sugar manufacturer, which produces the Dhampure brand of sugar products.

EDUCATION AND LIVING STANDARD:

Dhampur is a semi urban locality so it is influenced by both rural and urban societies. Its market place is well organised and developed, which serves a large area including villages and towns. For secondary  education dhampur is a good place, having many institutions like –  Pushp Niketan School, St. Mary's Convent School, R.S.M. Inter College, K.M. Inter College, Kanya Inter College, Priyanka Modern public School, Saraswati Vidya Mandir, R.N public school and Shikhar Shishu Sadan etc. It also have one technical institution – Disha institute of science and technology. And for graduate, post graduate courses , dhampur has many degree college like RSM Degree college, Dhampur degree college, SBD girls degree college, Dhampur college of law, Lakshya college etc.

NEIGHBOURHOOD PLACES :

Dhampur is surrounded by many neighbouring villages and localities like – Jaitra, Naurangabad, Suhagpur, Purana dhampur, Mohammadpur sada etc. and consist of many colonies like Punjabi colony, durga vihar, state bank colony, teachers colony, sundar nagar, kshatriya nagar, etc.

Transport :

Transport facility from dhampur is preferably good. Train and road transport available here. Dhampur is situated on railway line which connects north region ( Punjab, J&K) to east region, so direct trains to these locations are available from here. And road transport is also quite good and safe at here. Because of national higway 74 which connects north region to east and uttrakhand public transport to nearby and some long destinations is easily available from here.

FOOD AND TASTE :

Dhampur is famous for its traditional chaat like moong daal and singhada (waternut) kachri which is available here in every season, beside this indian chaat like aaloo tikki, dahi bada, and paani poori is also famous and good in quality. Famous and old place to taste these food is Bhagat singh chowk in main market of Dhampur.