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Kamptee is a suburb of Nagpur city and a municipal council in Nagpur district in the state of Maharashtra. It is part of the Nagpur metropolitan region development authority. It is the administrative center for Kamptee taluka. It is below the confluence of the Kanhan River with the rivers Pench River and Kolar.
| 2001 Census India 2001. | 42626 | 41718 | 84344 | - | 37.514 | 39.600 | 0.328 | 0.273 | 21.994 | 0.261 | 0.011 | 0.019 |
| 2011 Census India 2011. | 43470 | 43323 | 86793 | 2.904 | 34.135 | 43.175 | 0.279 | 0.212 | 21.784 | 0.184 | 0.008 | 0.222 |
The city is home to nearly 40 mosques. The Badi Masjid mosque is 130 years old, while the Kolsatal mosque is over a 100 years old. The Shia Haidry Jama Masjid and Maula Ali Dargah which are located in Husainabad, were constructed more than 130 years ago.
The temple Ram-Mandir was built in the 19th century by the father of P. Damodar Naidu of Kamptee. Jagdish Swami Mandir is present in the Juni Oli locality.
Churches were also established in Kamptee. The area hosts a Roman Catholic establishment of the Order of St. Francis de Sales, with a church and convent. The Immaculate Conception Church, the oldest church in central India, was built in 1820 and sits in the cantonment area.
Buddhists built the Dragon Palace Temple in 1999. Around 1,000,000 Buddhists annually gather at Dragon Palace. A Jain temple is around one thousand years old. It is full of sculptures and carvings; it depicts the Ramayana and the Mahabharat. A 1,000-year-old Jain mandir is at Lala oli. It is said that the Shikar of the Jain temple is nearly 300 years old. The temple was renovated by the Bhosale King of Nagpur in the eighteenth century. An idol in the image of Jain Tteerthankar Munisuvatnath was found hidden in a small room below the temple. This is the atishay of the temple. On 20 August 2016, one more underground room was discovered during temple renovation.
Kamptee has produced poets, authors and scholars, who were proficient in Hindi, Marathi and Urdu.
Kamptee has a primary school named Cantonment Board Hindi Primary School, a central government school. It provides quality education to children who can afford school fees.
The School of Home Science, once run by Shri Ramakrishna Samskriti Peeth, was founded by Mr B.N. Sen and operated by Mr. B.T. Adwani. It is now operated by the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission.
St. Joseph Convent has graduated actors such as Shahbaz Khan.
M.M. Rabbani High School and Junior College were established by Sheikh Hussain Rabbani in 1932. It produced National award winners Yaseen Quddusi and Ilyas Quddusi. It produced the politician Shameem Faizee. St. Joseph convent is a 156-year-old institution.
Indira High school and junior college were founded by Mr. Arjunlal Kastry.
MSBVEE is an autonomous body governed by the Maharashtra State Government. It provides courses in vocational education. Regulation VOC-2012/591 recognized MSBVE Certification as equivalent of HSC and as "Alternate Qualification" to ITI Courses. This places students completing MSBVE class XII at par with other students of HSC to take admission to graduation/degree courses for university in India and abroad.
Regulation G.R. No. VOC-2012/697 changed the certificate program from MSBVE to "MSBVEE Diploma". Rabbani ITI & Junior College is the first institute from Kamptee to be recognised by MSBVEE for running this course in Mechanical Engineering,Electrician, and Motor Vehicle Mechanic.
This city has a computer education center named Maxim.
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