MyRoorkee.com

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Roorkee is well connected to Delhi by rail and road. It is situated on National Highway (N.H.) 58 (Delhi-Haridwar) as-well-as on N.H. 73 (Haridwar-Panchkula) and is on Amristar-Howrah main rail route. Roorkee is approximately 175 km from New Delhi and it takes 4½ hours by road. New Delhi-Dehra Dun-New Delhi Shatabdi Express and Jan Shatabdi Express stop at Roorkee. This makes it convenient to travel between Delhi and Roorkee. The nearest airport is located at Jolly Grant, Dehra Dun. However, Delhi is the preferred airport.

Latitude : 29 deg. 51 mins. North
Longitude : 77 deg. 53 mins. East
Elevation : 274 m above sea level
Average Temperatures : January : 13.8 deg C ; June : 32.2 deg C
Annual Temp. Difference : 18.4 deg C
Average Annual Rainfall : 1032 mm
Highest Temperature Recorded: 45.5 deg C ( 9th May 1956 )
Lowest Temperature Recorded : -3.3 deg C ( 26th January 1964 )
Total area : 800 hect.
Population : 80,262 ( according to 1991 census )
Literacy Rate : 68.38 % ( according to census 1991 )

Roorkee town is of considerable size , with broad metaled roads meeting at right angles and Civil Lines with shops. In the center is an open chowk or market place surrounded with good masonry houses. The outer portion are generally occupied by mud dwellings, the poorest part being to the north . where the site extends to the low valley of Solani.

The streets are lined with open saucer drains leading down to the low canal and these are regularly flushed with water pumped up from the canal.