Kosi Kalan

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Kosi Kalan
city
Kosi Kalan Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 27°47′N 77°26′E / 27.783°N 77.433°E / 27.783; 77.433Coordinates: 27°47′N 77°26′E / 27.783°N 77.433°E / 27.783; 77.433
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Mathura
Government
• Type	Municipality
Population  (2001)
• Total	105,684
Languages
• official	Hindi
• Regional	Braj Bhasha
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	281403
Telephone code	05662
Vehicle registration	UP85
Website	https://mathura.nic.in/

Kosi Kalan is a city of Mathura district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is about 45km from Mathura city located in 27°47′N 77°26′E NH02 delhi Agra highway well connected with mathura Agra delhi with train and road. Khurd and Kalan Persian language word which means small and big respectively when two villages have same name then it is distinguished as Kalan means big and Khurd means small with village name.

The town of Kosi Kalan is governed by a Chairperson, who is elected for 5 years. List of chairpersons of Kosi Kalan, since it was declared as Notified Area in year 1939

1. Lala Gayalal Agrawal (1939 - 1944)
2. Lalaram Agarwal (1944 - 1953)
3. Chetram Agarwal (1953 - 1956)
4. Pannalal Agarwal ( 3 Months in 1956)
5. Basant Lal Khandelwal (1956 - 1959)
6. Phool Chand Jain (1959 - 1964)
7. Hariram Bansal (1960 - 1963)
8. Babulal Agrawal (1964 - 1971)
9. Harmukh Ray Khandelwal (1971 - 1972)
10. Jagadish Prasad Agrawal (1973 - 1976)
11. Jagadish Prasad Agrawal (1976 - 1980)
12. Jagadish Prasad Agarwal (1988 - 1994)
13. Indira Sharma (1995 - 2000)
14. Roshanlal Agrawal (2001 - 2005)
15. Vandana Agarwal (2006 - 2012)
16. Bhagwat Prasad Ruhela (2012 - 2017)
17. Narendra Kumar (2017 – Current)

Demographics[]

As of 2001 India census,^[1] Kosi Kalan had a population of 45,684. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Kosi Kalan has an average literacy rate of 51%, lower than the national average of 65%: male literacy is 59%, and female literacy is 41%. In Kosi Kalan, 18% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Notable Families[]

In year 1939, Kosi Kalan was declared as Notified Area and Shri Gayalal Agrawal was nominated as 1st Chairman. His 2nd son Shri Babulal Agrawal was elected as chairman on 26th December 1964. Shri Babulal Agrawal served the board for 7 years until 2nd Jul 1971. On 20th Jul 1973, his younger brother Jagadish Prasad Agrawal was elected as chairman and he served until 4th May 1976 and again he was elected on 14th Sep 1976. Again for the 3rd time, he got a chance to manage the municipal board on 26th Nov 1988 and did so for 5 years. After a long time, the 3rd generation of the Shri Gayalal family, Mrs. Vandana Agrawal was elected as chair person on 6th Nov 2006. During her swearing-in ceremony, on 18th Nov 2006, Shri Babulal Agrawal while addressing the public suffered a cardiac arrest and expired. He was of 82 years (Date of Birth: 23 May 1924).

Shri Babulal Agrawal was connected with multiple social organizations like Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), Ramlila Sansthan, Srikrishna Gaushala etc. His funeral was attended by thousands of people. Shri Babulal Agrawal was a true social worker and did lot of good work for Kosi Kalan during his chairmanship. He did manage the whole city with incredible leadership by taking even his opponents with him. Shri Gayalal Agrawal's family, generations after generations, has been involved with various charitable works by virtue of running various schools, temples and charitable trusts etc.

Shri Gayalal Agrawal's family, in his memory, constructed a marvelous charitable trust in Kosi Kalan, which is named as "Gayalal Smriti Bhavan". This is a marvelous piece of art constructed in Marble. This is a multi story building spread in acres. It has multiple gardens, large open grounds, large halls and many rooms. This was inaugurated by Honorable Vice President of India, Sri B.D. Jatti. Shri Babulal Agrawal took active participation in developing M.B. Inter College and M.B. Girls Inter college in Kosi Kalan, which are benefiting of thousands of boys and girls every year for last many decades.

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