Roorkee
Roorkee City | |
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City | |
| Roorkee City | |
From top: Main Administrative Building of IIT Roorkee, The East India Company-era (1854) Ganeshpur Bridge over the Ganges Canal and St. John's Church. | |
Roorkee City Location in Uttarakhand, India | |
| Coordinates: 29°52′29.49″N 77°53′23.74″E / 29.8748583°N 77.8899278°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Uttarakhand |
| District | Haridwar |
| Founded | 1842 |
| Municipality | 1868 |
| Founded by | Proby Cautley |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal Corporation |
| • Body | Roorkee Municipal Corporation |
| • Mayor | Anita Agarwal (BJP) |
| • Lok Sabha MP | Trivendra Singh Rawat (BJP) |
| • MLA | Pradip Batra (BJP) |
| • Municipal Commissioner | Rakesh Chandra Tiwari, PCS |
| • Rank | 5 |
| Elevation | 275 m (902 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Metro | 132,889 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| • Native | Khariboli |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 247667 |
| Telephone code | +91-1332 |
| Vehicle registration | UK-17 |
| Sex ratio | 1.12 ♂/♀ |
Roorkee (Rūṛkī; Hindi: [ɾuːɽkiː]), formerly also anglicized as Rurki, is a city and municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of the state of Uttarakhand, India. It is 31 km (19 mi) from Haridwar, the district headquarters. It is spread over a flat terrain under the Sivalik Hills of the Himalayas. The city is developed on the banks of the Ganges Canal, its dominant feature, which flows from north–south through the middle of the city.
Roorkee is home to Asia's Second engineering college the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, formerly known as Thomson College of Civil Engineering. Roorkee is also known for the Roorkee Cantonment, one of the country's oldest military establishments and the headquarters of Bengal Engineer Group since 1853.