What is "jewar"

Jewar is a city and a nagar panchayat in Gautam Buddha Nagar District in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Jewar Assembly constituency is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. It is a part of the Gautam Budh Nagar district and one of the five assembly constituencies in the Gautam Buddha Nagar (Lok Sabha constituency). First election in this assembly constituency was held in 1957 after the "DPACO (1961)" (delimitation order) was passed in 1961. After the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" was passed in 2008, the constituency was assigned identification number 63.

From the 3rd to 15th Vidhan Sabha, this constituency was reserved for candidates from scheduled caste community.