Sant Kabir Nagar district
Sant Kabir Nagar district Sant Kabir Nagar | |
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District of Uttar Pradesh | |
Sant Kabir Nagar | |
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![]() Location of Sant Kabir Nagar district in Uttar Pradesh | |
Country | ![]() |
State | Uttar Pradesh |
Division | Basti |
Headquarters | Khalilabad |
Tehsils | Khalilabad, Mehdawal, Ghanghata |
Government | |
• Lok Sabha constituencies | Sant Kabir Nagar,(Khalilabad, Dhanghata, Alapur, Khajni, Mehdawal) |
Area | |
• Total | 1,646 km2 (636 sq mi) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 1,715,183 |
• Density | 1,000/km2 (2,700/sq mi) |
Language | |
• Official | Hindi[1] |
• Additional official | Urdu[1] |
• Regional | Bhojpuri |
Demographics | |
• Literacy | 66.72 per cent |
• Sex ratio | 969 |
Time zone | UTC+05:30 (IST) |
Vehicle registration | UP-58 |
Major highways | National Highway 28 (India) |
Website | sknagar |
Sant Kabir Nagar district is one of the 75 districts of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. Khalilabad is the district headquarters. Sant Kabir Nagar district is a part of Basti division. The total area of Sant Kabir Nagar district is 1,646 km2 (636 sq mi).[2]
Economy
In 2007 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Sant Kabir Nagar one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).[3] It is one of the 34 districts in Uttar Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).[3]
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1901 | 486,935 | — |
1911 | 482,786 | −0.09% |
1921 | 507,791 | +0.51% |
1931 | 548,093 | +0.77% |
1941 | 576,478 | +0.51% |
1951 | 629,746 | +0.89% |
1961 | 652,787 | +0.36% |
1971 | 752,737 | +1.43% |
1981 | 911,052 | +1.93% |
1991 | 1,152,116 | +2.38% |
2001 | 1,420,226 | +2.11% |
2011 | 1,715,183 | +1.90% |
source:[4] |
According to the 2011 census Sant Kabir Nagar district has a population of 1,715,183,[6] roughly equal to the nation of The Gambia[7] or the US state of Nebraska.[8] This gives it a ranking of 283rd in India (out of a total of 640).[6] The district has a population density of 1,041 inhabitants per square kilometre (2,700/sq mi).[6] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 20.71%.[6] Sant Kabir Nagar has a sex ratio of 969 females for every 1000 males[6] and a literacy rate of 69.01%. 7.49% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 21.52% and 0.09% of the population respectively.[6]
Language
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 53.67% of the population in the district spoke Bhojpuri, 36.42% Hindi and 9.49% Urdu as their first language.[9]
Bhojpuri is the native language of the district.[10] The Bhojpuri variant of Kaithi is the indigenous script of Bhojpuri language.[11]
Notable residents
- Sant Kabir Das, poet
- Bhalchandra Yadava, politician
- Ram Prasad Chaudhary, politician
- Kavindra Chaudhary, politician
- Ankur Raj Tiwari, politician
- Sucheta Kripalani, First Woman Chief Minister of India, MLA from Mehndawal(1962–1967)
- Akhilesh Pati Tripathi Politician in Delhi
- Nagendra Nath Tripathi Politician
- Akhtar Hussain Aleemi, Islamic Scholar
References
- ^ a b "52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ "District Sant Kabir Nagar, Government of Uttar Pradesh | City of Sant Kabir Das | India". Retrieved 8 March 2021.
- ^ a b Ministry of Panchayati Raj (8 September 2009). "A Note on the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme" (PDF). National Institute of Rural Development. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2011.
- ^ Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901
- ^ "Table C-01 Population by Religion: Uttar Pradesh". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f "District Census Handbook: Sant Kabir Nagar" (PDF). censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 2011.
- ^ US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
Gambia, The 1,797,860 July 2011 est.
- ^ "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 30 September 2011.
Nebraska 1,826,341
- ^ a b "Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Uttar Pradesh". www.censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
- ^ Grierson, George Abraham (1881). A handbook to the Kayathi character. The Library of Congress. Calcutta, Thacker, Spink, and co.
- ^ "Bhojpuri". Ethnologue. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
External links
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- Sant Kabir Nagar district website
- Sant Kabir Nagar District Court Website
- Sant Kabir Nagar census 2011 data
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