Jhajjar district

Jhajjar (: झज्‍जर) is one of the nineteen  of ,.

Jhajjar district was carved out of  on,. The district headquarter is situated in. Other towns in the district are and. Bahadurgarh was founded by Rathi Jats and formerly known as Sharafabad. It is situated 29 km from Delhi and had developed into an important industrial canter.

The total area of Jhajjar district is 1,890 km² and its population is 7,09,000. The district consists of 2 industrial areas with 2408 plots. The basic industries are, glass, chemicals, engineering, electrical & electronics. There are 48 large and medium units 213 small scale units with the total investment of Rs. 3400 million ($ 76.5 million) and workforce of 8248. Major crops grown here are, and. The total irrigated agricultural land is about 670 km².

The town is said to have been founded by Chhaju and Chhajunagar was changed to Jhajjar. It is also derived from Jharnaghar, a natural fountain. A third derivation is from Jhajjar, a water vessel, because the surface drainage of the country for miles around runs into the town as into a sink.

SSI units
In Jhajjar Distt. there are 1818 SSI units registered as of,. The total approximate investment of these units is 9550.01 lakhs and total employment in these units is 12153. it will connected by rail soon.

Large and medium units
There are 35 large and Medium units in the District which are engaged in the manufacturing. No plot is available for allotment. At the one stage all the plots had been in working condition but at present only 56 plots are working.

Beri used to be a fifty years ago. It was the home land of some families of clan of the  they had adopted the profession of oil extraction after embracing  perhaps during the  and came to be known as the teli family of beri.