Raebareli (District)

Raebareli District रायबरेली जिला
State	Uttar Pradesh
Division :	Lucknow
Administrative headquarters :	Raebareli
Area :	4609 * km²
Residents :	3,405,559 * (2011)
Population density :	739 * inh / km²
Website :	raebareli.nic.in
*) Figures refer to the Raebareli district before the Amethi district split off in 2010.

The Raebareli district ( Hindi : रायबरेली जिला ; also Rae Bareli ) is a district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . The administrative center is the eponymous city of Raebareli .

geography

The Raebareli district is located in the Awadh (Oudh) region in central Uttar Pradesh and is part of the Lucknow division . Neighboring districts are Barabanki in the north, Amethi in the east, Pratapgarh in the southeast, Fatehpur in the south, Unnao in the west and Lucknow in the northwest.

Before the Amethi district split off in 2010, the Raebareli district had an area of ​​4609 km². The area belongs to the flat and intensively agriculturally used Ganges plain . In the south the Ganges , the largest river in India, forms the border of the district. In addition, the district is traversed by the Sai , a tributary of the Gomti .

The Raebareli district is divided into the five Tehsils Maharajganj, Raebareli, Lalganj, Dalmau, Unchahar and. The two Tehsils Salon and Tilo came to the Amethi district in 2010.

history

The Raebareli district was created by the British after they annexed the princely state of Oudh , to which the area had previously belonged, as a result of the Indian uprising of 1857 . In 1902 Oudh became part of the United Provinces , from which the state of Uttar Pradesh emerged after Indian independence in 1947. In 2010, the new Amethi District (originally called Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Nagar ) was formed from parts of the Raebareli and Sultanpur districts .

On November 1, 2017, an explosion at the Unchahar coal-fired power station (Feroze Gandhi Unchahar Thermal Power Station) killed over 30 people and injured another 100. They worked with around 200 people on the premises of National Thermal Power Limited (NTPC, national power plant operator) on a 500 MW power plant section that was inaugurated in April. According to the number of victims, this is the worst accident in an industrial company since the Jaipur's India Oil fire in 2009.

population

According to the 2011 census, the Raebareli district has 3,405,559 inhabitants according to the old area status (all the following information refers to the former district area including the areas that are now part of the Amethi district). Between 2001 and 2011 the population grew by 19 percent. The population density of 739 inhabitants per km² is slightly below the Uttar Pradesh average (829 inhabitants per km²). The district is very rural: only nine percent of the population live in cities (the mean for the state is 22 percent). At 67 percent, the literacy rate is close to the Uttar Pradesh average (68 percent).

According to the 2001 census , Hindus make up the majority of the residents of the district with 88 percent. There is also a Muslim minority of 12 percent.

Cities

The following list also includes those cities that have belonged to Amethi District since 2010:

city	Population (2001)
Bachhrawan	11,879
Dalmau	8,968
Yes, it's	24,366
Lalganj	21,135
Maharajganj	6,027
Parsadepur	9,614
Raebareli	169.285
salon	13,166
Unchahar	9,305

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Explosion at Indian Coal Power Plant Kills 29, Injures 85 " . Bloomberg.com. November 2, 2017
2. ↑ Census of India 2011: Primary Census Abstract - Uttar Pradesh (PDF; 1.7 MB).
3. ^ Census of India 2001: Basic Data Sheet. District Rae Bareli (28), Uttar Pradesh (09). (PDF file; 54 kB)
4. ↑ Census of India 2001: Population, population in the age group 0-6 and literates by sex - Cities / Towns (in alphabetic order) ( Memento from June 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive )

literature

• The Imperial Gazetteer of India. Volume 21: Pushkar to Salween. New edition. Clarendon Press, London 1908, pp. 25–32 , keyword: Rāe Barelī District .

Web links

• Raebareli District website