Maudaha is a city and a Municipal Board in Hamirpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.The district participated in the elections of 1937 which were conducted under the Government of India Act of 1935, in order to organize activities of the Congress in the district Jawaharlal Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad visited Maudaha in 1937. With the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, however, the Congress ministries resigned on the issue of India's forced participation in it. Agriculture is the main occupation of the people. Recently, during local body election in December 2017, three Gram Panchayats- Sichauli Purva, Ragaul and Fatteh purva merged with the Maudaha Municipality, formally called Maudaha Nagar Palika.
History
Maudaha is one of four tehsils of Hamirpur district of Indian State Uttar Pradesh. The town had been recognized as one of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly's region until 2012.
Geography
Maudaha is located at. It has an average elevation of 120 metres.
Demographics
Indiacensus, Maudaha is a Nagar Palika Parishad city in the district of Hamirpur, Uttar Pradesh. The Maudaha city is divided into 25 wards for which elections are held every 5 years. The Maudaha Nagar Palika Parishad has a population of 40,003 of which 21,266 are males while 18,737 are females as per the report released by Census India 2011. The population of Children with age of 0-6 is 5059 which is 12.65% of the total population of Maudaha. In Maudaha Nagar Palika Parishad, Female Sex Ratio is of 881 against the state average of 912. Moreover, Child Sex Ratio in Maudaha is around 868 compared to Uttar Pradesh state average of 902. The literacy rate of Maudaha city is 78.77% higher than the state average of 67.68%. In Maudaha, Male literacy is around 86.22% while the female literacy rate is 70.34%. Maudaha Nagar Palika Parishad has total administration over 7,152 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage. It is also authorize to build roads within Nagar Palika Parishad limits and impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction.
Economy
There is no large scale industry in Maudaha apart from a few small scale industries available but these industries are not sufficient for giving enough employment to local people. The economy is mostly dependent on farming. The city however, has a growing private commercial sector, mainly retail businesses. Most depend for their livelihood on farming. This region is in a drought-affected area. There is a big industry named as Hindustan Unilever in Bharua Sumerpur 15 km far from Maudaha.
Transport
Road transport
The available multiple modes of public transport in the city are taxis, cycle rickshaws, auto rickshaws. National Highway 86 passes through Maudaha which connects it to Kanpur and Sagar. A district major road MD510B passes through Maudaha which connects it to Banda and Muskara. Apart from the long-distance services, there are many services to nearby places within the state. There are number of daily buses to Kanpur, Rath, Delhi, Sagar, Lucknow, Jhansi, Banda, in Uttar Pradesh and to many other states.
