Udham Singh Nagar district

Udham Singh Nagar District is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. Rudrapur is the district headquarters. This district consists of seven Tehsils named Bajpur, Gadarpur, Jaspur, Kashipur, Kichha, Khatima, Sitarganj. The district is located in the Terai region, and is part of Kumaon Division. It is bounded on the north by Nainital District, on the northeast by Champawat District, on the east by Nepal, and on the south and west by Bareilly, Rampur, Moradabad, Pilibhit and Bijnor District of Uttar Pradesh state. The district was created in October 1995 by Mayawati government out of Nainital District. It is named for freedom fighter and Indian revolutionary Udham Singh.[6]

Udham Singh Nagar district
District
Location in Uttarakhand, India
Coordinates: 28.98°N 79.40°E / 28.98; 79.40
Country India
StateUttarakhand
DivisionKumaon
HeadquartersRudrapur
Area
 • Total2,908 km2 (1,123 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total1,648,902
 • Density570/km2 (1,500/sq mi)
Languages
 • OfficialHindi[2]
 • Additional officialSanskrit[3][4]
 • RegionalKumaoni[5]
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registrationUK 06, UK 18
Websiteusnagar.nic.in

As of 2011 it is the third most populous district of Uttarakhand (out of 13), after Haridwar and Dehradun.[1]

Tehsils in Udham Singh Nagar district
  1. Kashipur
  2. Jaspur
  3. Bajpur
  4. Gadarpur
  5. Rudrapur
  6. Kichha
  7. Sitarganj
  8. Nanakmatta
  9. Khatima

Cities in Udham Singh Nagar district
  1. Kashipur
  2. Jaspur
  3. Bajpur
  4. Gadarpur
  5. Dineshpur
  6. Rudrapur
  7. Pantnagar
  8. Kichha
  9. Sitarganj
  10. Nanakmatta
  11. Khatima
  12. Sultanpur, Uttarakhand

Administrative divisions

The district lies in Nainital–Udhamsingh Nagar (Lok Sabha constituency). which includes whole Nainital district as well as Udham Singh Nagar district. For election purposes District is divided into nine Vidhan Sabha constituencies:

  1. Kashipur (Vidhan Sabha constituency)
  2. Rudrapur (Assembly constituency)
  3. Kichha (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
  4. Sitarganj (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)
  5. Khatima (Uttarakhand Assembly constituency)

Demographics
Religions in Udham Singh Nagar District[7]
Religion Percent
Hindus
 
 66.98%
Muslims
 
 22.58%
Sikhs
 
 9.87%
Others
 
 0.57%

According to the 2011 census Udham Singh Nagar district has a population of 1,648,902,[1] roughly equal to the nation of Guinea-Bissau[8] or the US state of Idaho.[9] The population in the age range of 0–6 years was 229,162. The number of literates in Udham Singh Nagar district is 1,037,839 (62.9%), with 598,525 (68.7%) male literates and 751,789 (55.6%) female literates. The effective 7+ literacy of the district is 73.1%. The sex ratio of 920 females for every 1,000 males.[1] The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population was 238,264 and 123,037 respectively. There were 308581 households in the district in 2011.[1]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901131,811—    
1911131,608−0.02%
1921112,634−1.54%
1931112,804+0.02%
1941118,733+0.51%
1951136,446+1.40%
1961301,681+8.26%
1971451,717+4.12%
1981668,751+4.00%
1991924,856+3.30%
20011,235,614+2.94%
20111,648,902+2.93%
source:[10]

Languages

The major languages of the district according to the 2011 census are Hindi (62%), Punjabi (10%), Bengali (7.9%), Urdu (6.4%), Kumaoni (5.2%), Bhojpuri (3.6%), and Tharu (2.9%).[11] The two Tharu languages spoken are Buksa (mostly in the development blocks of Bajpur and Gadarpur),[12] and Rana (in the areas of Khatima and Sitarganj).[13]

Udham Singh Nagar district: mother-tongue of population, according to the 2011 Indian Census.[11]
Mother tongue code Mother tongue People Percentage
002007Bengali 129,537 7.9%
006030Awadhi 1,412 0.1%
006102Bhojpuri 60,141 3.6%
006195Garhwali 5,840 0.4%
006240Hindi 1,028,354 62.4%
006340Kumauni 86,078 5.2%
006439Pahari 2,067 0.1%
010011Purbi Maithili 1,392 0.1%
010014Tharu 47,501 2.9%
014011Nepali 1,622 0.1%
016038Punjabi 166,327 10.1%
019014Sindhi 1,142 0.1%
022015Urdu 105,148 6.4%
053005Gujari 859 0.1%
– Others 11,482 0.7%
Total 1,648,902 100.0%

Education

Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology in Pantnagar, is located 5 km from Rudrapur.

References
  1. "Census of India: Udham Singh Nagar district". www.censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  2. "52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. p. 18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  3. Trivedi, Anupam (19 January 2010). "Sanskrit is second official language in Uttarakhand". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  4. "Sanskrit second official language of Uttarakhand". The Hindu. 21 January 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  5. "Kumaoni". Ethnologue. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  6. Singh, Anand Raj (12 March 2015). "Mayawati may create new district to tame old foe". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  7. "C-1 Population By Religious Community Data - Census 2011 - Udham Singh Nagar district, Uttarakhand". censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  8. US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Retrieved 1 October 2011. Guinea-Bissau 1,596,677 July 2011 est.
  9. "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 30 September 2011. Idaho 1,567,582
  10. "Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India". www.censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  11. C-16 Population By Mother Tongue – Uttarakhand (Report). Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  12. Pant, Jagdish (2015). "Buksa/Buksari". In Devy, Ganesh; Bhatt, Uma; Pathak, Shekhar (eds.). The Languages of Uttarakhand. People's Linguistic Survey of India. 30. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. pp. 3–26. ISBN 9788125056263.
  13. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "India – Languages". Ethnologue (22nd ed.). SIL International. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019.
    Singh, Sidheswar (2015). "Tharu". In Devy, Ganesh; Bhatt, Uma; Pathak, Shekhar (eds.). The Languages of Uttarakhand. People's Linguistic Survey of India. 30. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. pp. 163–76. ISBN 9788125056263.
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