Akbarpur, Ambedkar Nagar

Akbarpur
Ambedkar Nagar
city
Akbarpur
Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 26°26′00″N 82°32′25″E / 26.43333°N 82.54028°E / 26.43333; 82.54028Coordinates: 26°26′00″N 82°32′25″E / 26.43333°N 82.54028°E / 26.43333; 82.54028
Country  India
State Uttar Pradesh
District Akbarpur
Government
 • Body Municipal Board
Elevation 133 m (436 ft)
Population (2011)
 • Total 111,594
Languages
 • Official Hindi
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN 224122
Telephone code 915271
Vehicle registration UP-45
Sex ratio 1000/937 ♂/♀
Website ambedkarnagar.nic.in

Akbarpur is a city and a municipal board in Ambedkar Nagar district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Ambedkar Nagar District. Akbarpur is the birthplace of Ram Manohar Lohia (1910–1967), who was a renowned Indian freedom fighter and a socialist political leader. Ashrafpur Kichhauchha a famous village in Ambedkar Nagar district about 25 km from Akbarpur city embraces the shrine of the illustrious 13th Century Chisti Sufi saint Ashraf Jahangir Semnani[1] which is visited by millions of devotees every year irrespective of religion, ethnicity and gender.

Geography

Lohia bhavan Akbarpur

Akbarpur, is situated on the banks of Tamsa River. According to Ramayana, it is the place where King Dashratha shot Shravan Kumar, and the place is called Shravan kshetra . The ashram of sage Shringi Rishi was also situated here. According to Ramayana, Lord Rama's son Kusha drives Shravasti. The Rajbhar King drives its eastern part. In Ramayan Lord Rama battled to many Rajbhar Kings. Shiv Baba is a spiritual place where people comes pilgrimage. It is situated just 50 km from holy place Ayodhya.

The River Tamasa (Tons), divides the city of Ambedkarnagar into the two parts Akbarpur and Shahzadpur, with the latter being the main commercial centre of the city. Lorepur part of Akbarpur City is also noted for the Palace of Lorepur State, and Imambargah of Lorepur State.

Demography

According to provisional reports of the Census of India, the population of Akbarpur in 2011 was 111,594; of which male and female are 57,560 and 54,034 respectively. The sex ratio of Akbarpur city is 939 per 1000 males. The total literates in Akbarpur city are 75,062 of which 42,208 are males while 32,854 are females, the average literacy rate of Akbarpur city hence is 76.94 percent of which male and female literacy was 83.89 and 69.54 percent. Total children (0-6) in Akbarpur city are 14,037 as per figure from Census India report in 2011. There were 7,247 boys while 6,790 are girls. Child sex ratio of girls is 937 per 1000 boys. Akbarpur city is governed by Municipal Corporation and is situated in Uttar Pradesh State..UT.[2]

Religions in Akbarpur
Religion Percent
Hindus
 
 75%
Muslims
 
 24%
Jains
 
 0.4%
Others†
 
 0.6%
Distribution of religions
†Includes Sikhs (0.2%), Buddhists (<0.2%).

Education

Government Airstrip, Akbarpur
Akbarpur Junction

Highest secondary school in the city is St Peters School and it only ICSE board school in whole district.The condition of higher education has been improved since various colleges have been set up. The Ramabai Government Women Post Graduate College,[3] Akbarpur, was established in 1997 for providing opportunities mainly to rural scholars along with urban scholars in the area of higher education in different streams. BNKB Degree College is one of the private managed and government aided college for co-education, which offers several degree programs. Many government secondary schools (Junior High School and Rajkiya Intermediate College) have been opened in the town for providing education opportunities. There is also an ICSE, English medium Inter College named as St. Peter's Inter College, which was founded in 1984 and it celebrated its 25 years of excellence in 2009. There is also one government engineering college and a medical college. Mahamaya Engineering College, an agriculture recently opened. www.spsakbarpur.org.

There is a famous CBSE college in Jalalpur Ambedkar Nagar named Radiant college and Narendra dev intermediate college affiliated to u.p board.

Engineering Colleges

Medical College

Notable Schools

Economy

Ambedkar Nagar is noted for Tanda Terricot. Major economic activities in the district are power looms and farming. The district also has a thermal power station belonging to the NTPC. There is also a cement manufacturing plant belonging to the Jaypee Group (Jaypee Ayoudha Grinding Unit). The district has one sugar factory called the Akbarpur Sugar Mill, which is situated near Mijhaura, about 10 km from the district headquarters. Many rice mills are present in Akbarpur. Agro Industries including rice mill and power and distribution transformer manufacturing industries are available in Akbarpur.

People

See also

References

  1. ↑ 'Hayate Makhdoom Syed Ashraf Jahangir Semnani(1975), Second Edition(2017) ISBN 978-93-85295-54-6, Maktaba Jamia Ltd, Shamshad Market, Aligarh 202002,India
  2. ↑ "Akbarpur City". census2011.co.in.
  3. ↑ http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/51149108.jpg
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