Jewar, along with Noida and Dadri, is one of the 3 sub-divisions of GB Nagar district, each headed by a SDM.
Jewar falls under Jewar Assembly constituency represented by a MLA.
Noida, Dadri, Jewar, Khurja and Sikandrabad falls under the Gautam Buddha Nagar Lok Sabha constituency, represented by an MP.
People
Demographics
As of 2011 Indian Census, Jewar had a total population of 32,269, of which 17,188 were males and 15,081 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 5,095. The total number of literates in Jewar was 18,184, which constituted 56.4% of the population with male literacy of 63.8% and female literacy of 47.9%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Jewar was 66.9%, of which male literacy rate was 75.9% and female literacy rate was 56.7%. The Scheduled Castes population was 7,087. Jewar had 4623 households in 2011.[1]
Culture
Around 1 km west of Jewar is an ashram and an old temple of the Maharshi. Other temples in the town is the Devi Mandir and the Daau ji Mandir[7] famous for the Dau ji Mela held every year in the month of September.[8][9]
Jewar town does not have any railway station. The nearest railway stations are Khurja Junction, Chola and Dankaur on Delhi-Kanpur section of Indian railways. On the west side of Jewar is Palwal in Haryana state. The Palwal railway station which is situated on the Delhi-Agra chord is around 28km from Jewar.
In 2023, the Government of India started planning to construct a new railway line from Chola station to Palwal station, via Jewar.
