JAIPUR CITY GUIDE

JAIPUR CITY GUIDE

Rajasthan’s state capital is Jaipur and it is the largest capital of in the Northern India and it was established by Maharaja Sawai jai Singh II the King of Amber in the year 1727 and today it has a population over 3 million and Jaipur is popularly known as the Pink City of India. Jaipur has unique set of streets which is wide from most of the Indian roads and the urban billets are divided into an array of grids and networks.  The famous Hawa Mahal is a palace within a complex with gardens and a small water tank inside its enclosure. The Nahargarrh Fort is the presidential palace of the King and is at the peak of the Northwest corner of the mountain in the city. Jantar Mantar is an observatory that has a world importance in heritage and also includes the Golden Triangle which is the part of the promotional unit of tourism in India along with Delhi and Agra and Jaipur is extremely famous and popular destination for the tourists visiting India and Rajasthan and also a very popular destination for vacation amongst the Indians as well for its rich and varied culture and the forts that draws our attention with such Rajput style of architecture. The city of Jaipur is maintained by the civic authorities and the head of the Municipality is the CEO of the Rajasthan Administrative Service which has 91 wards and is corresponded by a member who has been elected by the Corporation.

Jaipur was established by Raja Jai Singh II of Amer who was the king from 1688-1743 and founded Jaipur in 1727 and made Dausa as the capital which was 51 kilometres away from Jaipur. The shortage of water and ever growing population made the Raja to shift his capital to Jaipur and referred to many architects in order to lay the plan of structuring the city of Jaipur. It was under Vidyadhar Bhattacharya primarily the accounts clerk of the Amer reserves was later promoted to the rank of being the Chief architecture of Jaipur and developed the city according to the Hindu scientific laws of laying the foundation of building a city namely the Vastu Shastra. It took four years for the construction of palaces and roads of the city and the city was bifurcated into nine blocks of which two belonged to the state head and the rest of the seven blocks were for the public at large. During the visit of the price of Wales, the King ordered to get the entire city painted into pink colour and thus the city gets its name, this gives a different and distinct appearance to the city. The city started growing at a rapid pace with industries started settling up in the 19^th century and industries of metals and marble were the primary industries and through it the famous Madrasa Hunree was developed and established as a school for art and culture in the year 1868. In the year 1865 the Sanskrit College came into existence and along with it the King also furnished funds for the school towards the empowerment and academics and making woman educated in the year 1867 and opened a girl’s school. The Rajput was a wealthy clan and the Marwari’s being the natives were a society of bankers and money lenders. The Maharaja named Rishabh Bhawani Singh a member of the King’s family was laid to rest in 2011 following failure of multiple organs.

Jaipur experience a semi-arid type of a climate being in the desert region it has all the desert type of a climate being very hot during the day time and cool after sunset. The temperature rises to a maximum of 48degrees Celsius during the summer months and comes down to 15degrees Celsius during the winter months. Very light woollens are required during the cold months. The region experiences rainfall as less as just 26 inches per year and mostly during the monsoon seasons between June to September with thunderstorms but with no flood like situation.

As per the 2011 Census the population of Jaipur is 03,073,350 which is a 31.2% rise in the population in a decade and according to the National Bureau of Crime records Jaipur has the highest number of crimes committed all across India and is the third highest in the list of thirty five cities of India which is one million and more than any other crime rate number in the country.

Jaipur is ranked thirty first as the most Emerging Global Outsourcing Cities of Indian sub-continent as laid down according to a survey held in the year 2008. Companies like Genpact, Deutsche Bank Group Jaipur, and the BPO of Infosys have all their software development centred here at Jaipur. Jaipur has the largest IT SEZ for the Mahindra in the country and it’s a venture that is jointly operated by the Mahindra group of company as well as RIICO. It is almost 3 thousand acres and the largest job provider in Jaipur. The Gaurav Tower is a primary activity centre for economic movement in the city of Jaipur.

Jaipur is a major tourist place destination in India and is ranked as the seventh best place to visit in Asia as laid down by the Conde Nast traveller readers Choice Survey in the year 2008. The CNN’s world’s most expensive hotel suites according to 2012 are in Jaipur and that is The Presidential Suite of the Raj Palace hotel which bills an individual for US$ 45,000 per night.

City of Jaipur can be reached by either of the three ways of transportation since it is well connected by the national Highways for the road service which links to almost all the major cities with city buses being operated from the city terminus and is also in the zone of Indian railways of the North Western Zone and connects Delhi and all the major metro cities of the country. Jaipur International Airport is ten kilometres away from Jaipur city and it is in a satellite town of Sanganer which has a large fleet of domestic and international flights.

The major places of interest in the city of Jaipur are like the famous Hawa Mahal, Jal Mahal, City Palace, Jantar Mantar, Amer Fort, Jaigarh Fort, Nahargarh Fort, Sri Kali Mandir, Jaipur Zoological Botanical Garden and the Sanganeri Gate. The Town hall has been converted into a museum and it narrates the Rajasthan culture, Albert hall Museum, Jawaharlal kala Kendra and Ravindra Manch are the few centres of development of culture in the city of Jaipur.

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