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Sironj
India officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second most populous country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world. India is a union of twenty-eight states and seven federally-governed union territories. New Delhi is the capital of India.
Sironj is a town lying in the Vidisha district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Sironj is a small town in Vidisha district of Madhya Pradesh. It is a block or sub district, along with five more blocks in the district Vidisha of Madhya Pradesh.
It is about 120 kilometers North of Bhopal, the Capital of Central Indian State of Madhya Pradesh. Although it lies in the Vidisha district and is about 85 kilometers from Vidisha town, which is the district headquarters it is much easier to reach Sironj from Bhopal then from Vidisha, on account of better roads and more frequent buses plying between Bhopal and Sironj.
It takes about 3.5 hours by a public transport bus to reach Sironj from Bhopal. These buses are available from Berasia bus stand of Bhopal. The nearest railway station is Ganj Basoda, 45 kilometers east of Sironj, which lies on the main Mumbai-Delhi railway route.
Terrainwise, Sironj is a mixture of undulating hilly tracts coupled with black cotton soil plains. The area was once full of forests but now almost completely devoid of them, barring the forests on the fringes of the block in remote villages. Sironj has a mixed population of Hindus, Muslims and Jains. While the villages are dominated mostly by Hindus, in the town, the Hindus and Muslims are almost in equal numbers. There is a considerable Jain population in Sironj. Most of the inhabitants of Sironj are traders, surrounded by the agriculturist community of about 300 villages that surround it.
Main crops of Sironj area are Wheat, maize and gram in winters and Soyabean and lentils in rains. The wheat from Sironj and other parts of Vidisha are famous throughout India and are sold at premium prices in the markets of Delhi. The Soyabean from this area forms the backbone of the Soya-oil industry based at Indore.
It can also be considered as the preeminent, historical and potential tourism destination that enjoys a very positive reputation with worldwide travelers to become one of the most visited places.
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