Malout

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Malout
Town
National Highway 9 in Malout, Muktsar district, Punjab, India
Malout Location in Punjab, India
Coordinates: 30°11′24″N 74°29′56″E / 30.190°N 74.499°E / 30.190; 74.499
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Muktsar
Government
• Type	Municipal Council
• Body	Malout Municipal Council
Population  (2011)
• Total	81,406
Languages
• Official	Punjabi, Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	152107[1]
Telephone code	1637
Vehicle registration	PB-53

Malout is a town, just outside of Muktsar Sahib city in the Muktsar district of the Indian state of Punjab. It is in the southern Punjab "cotton belt", where production per kilometer is one of the highest in India. Malout is on NH-354 and NH-9 and NH-7, which connects Fazilka to New Delhi. The boundaries of Haryana and Rajasthan are 30 kilometres (19 mi) and 65 kilometres (40 mi), respectively, from the town. Malout is 55 kilometres (34 mi) from the border with Pakistan, and has been affected by military incidents. Malout is also well known for the MIMIT college in which students from all over India comes to pursue UG and PG degrees. Malout Institute of Management and Information Technology (MIMIT), A Government Engineering and Management College in Malout, affiliated to I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, and approved by AICTE.