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Mughalsarai | |
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City | |
Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar | |
Location in Uttar Pradesh, India | |
Coordinates: 25°18′N 83°07′E / 25.3°N 83.12°E | |
Country | India |
State | Uttar Pradesh |
District | Chandauli |
Named for | Mughals Deen Dayal Upadhyaya |
Government | |
• Body | Municipal Council |
• Chairman | Sonu Kinnar (independent)[1] |
• MLA | Ramesh Jaiswal (BJP)[2] |
Elevation | 65 m (213 ft) |
Population (2011)[3] | |
• Total | 109,650 |
Language | |
• Official | Hindi[4] |
• Additional official | Urdu[4] |
• Regional | Bhojpuri |
Time zone | UTC+05:30 (IST) |
PIN | 232101 |
Telephonic Code | 05412 |
Vehicle registration | UP 67 XX XXXX |
Mughalsarai (/ˌmuːɡhælˈsɑːreɪɪ/; English: Mughal Tavern[5]), officially known as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar,[6] is a city and a municipal board in the Chandauli district of Uttar Pradesh. Located around 16 kilometres (10 miles) from Varanasi, it is an important railway junction.[7]
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page).Its importance as a railway junction can well be understood by the fact that more than 50 passenger trains and over 150 goods trains pass through it within 24 hours. The amount of coal passing through Mughalsarai was about 39,000 tons daily in 1960 and the wagons carrying coal from this end to other stations numbered 1,729 per day.