Khurja

Khurja is a city and a metropolitan board in the Bulandshahr area in the Indian territory of Uttar Pradesh. It is arranged around 85 km from Delhi. Khurja supplies a huge segment of the earthenware production utilized in the nation, thus it is now and again called The Ceramics City. The town is additionally popular for its extraordinary sweet, known as "khurchan". The name Khurja is gotten from the Urdu word kharija meaning, dropped or denounced, as the income for this town was postponed in light of the fact that this land included numerous marshes and the horticultural conceivable outcomes were uncommon.

Khurja is presently well known for its pottery. With more than 500 industrial facilities delivering earthenware works, its horizon is dabbed with stacks. Khurja had a populace of 98,403. Guys establish 53% of the populace and females 47%. Khurja has a normal education rate of 57%, lower than the national normal of 60.5%: male proficiency is 65%, and female proficiency is 55%. In Khurja, 16% of the populace is under 6 years old. The historical backdrop of Khurja stoneware returns to around fourteenth century, when some withdrawing injured troopers from Timur's armed force chose to remain. Some of these officers were potters and they carried this specialty with them.