Amethi (district)

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Amethi
District अमेठी जिला
District map
State Uttar Pradesh
Division : Faizabad
Administrative headquarters : Gauriganj
Area : 3063 km²
Residents : 150,000 (as of 2013)
Population density : 49 people / km² people / km²
Website : http://www.amethi.nic.in/

The district of Amethi ( Hindi : अमेठी जिला ; until 2012 district of Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar , Hindi: छत्रपति शाहूजी महाराज नगर ) is a district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . The administrative center is Gauriganj , the largest city is Amethi .

The Amethi District is located in the Awadh (Oudh) region in central Uttar Pradesh. Neighboring districts are Sultanpur in the east, Pratapgarh in the south, Raebareli in the west, Barabanki in the northwest and Faizabad in the north. It has an area of ​​3063 km².

Administrative division

Tehsils

The district is divided into 4 tehsils :

history

The Amethi district was created on July 1, 2010 from parts of the Sultanpur and Raebareli districts. The new district received the three Tehsils Amethi, Gauriganj and Musafirkhana from Sultanpur, and the two Tehsils Salon and Tiloi from Raebareli. Originally the district was named Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar . The name referred to the Shahu (Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj) called Maharaja of Kolhapur (1884-1922), who is venerated by the Dalit movement for the social reforms he has initiated. The name of the newly founded district corresponded to the program of the BSP politician Mayawati , who was then ruling in Uttar Pradesh, who renamed numerous districts of the state after icons of the Dalit movement. Since the district is largely congruent with the constituency of Amethi, from which Mayawati's political rival Rahul Gandhi was elected to the Indian parliament, the Lok Sabha , the renaming of the district to Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj was considered a symbolic political success of Mayawati. After the BSP was replaced in 2012 by the Samajwadi Party in government, the new head of government Akhilesh Yadav initiated the renaming of Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar in Amethi district in July 2012 . In 2013 the Tehsil Salon was removed from the district and incorporated into the Rae Bareli district.

The last Indian census in 2011 was carried out according to the old administrative structure, therefore no population data is available for the Amethi district.

Web links

Commons : Amethi District  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.amethi.nic.in/
  2. ^ The Hindu, July 1, 2010: "Uttar Pradesh gets one more district". ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thehindu.com
  3. ^ The Times of India, September 1, 2010: "Victory for Mayawati, can rename Amethi as Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar".
  4. ↑ The Times of India, July 24, 2012: "Akhilesh renames UP districts named after dalits by Mayawati".
  5. ↑ Amethi to remain district, but with one less tehsil . The Indian Express. June 7, 2013.