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District in Uttarakhand, India

District of Uttarakhand in India

Udham Singh Nagar district
District of Uttarakhand
Clockwise from top-left: Palace of Dronacharya, Gurudwara Nanakana Sahib in Kashipur, Baigul Dam, Crops Research Center at Pantnagar, Metropolis city in Rudrapur
Location in Uttarakhand
Coordinates: 28°59′N 79°24′E / 28.98°N 79.40°E / 28.98; 79.40
Country	India
State	File:..Uttarakhand Flag(INDIA).png Uttarakhand
Division	Kumaon
Headquarters	Rudrapur
Government
• District collector	Yugal Kishore Pant IAS
Area
• Total	2,908 km (1,123 sq mi)
Population
• Total	1,648,902
• Density	570/km (1,500/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Hindi
• Additional official	Sanskrit
• Regional	Kumaoni
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	UK 06, UK 18
Website	usnagar.nic.in

Udham Singh Nagar District is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. Rudrapur is the district headquarters. This district consists of nine Tehsils named Bajpur, Gadarpur, Rudrapur, Jaspur, Kashipur, Kichha, Khatima, Sitarganj, Nanakmatta. 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 on 29 September 1995, by Mayawati government out of Nainital District. It is named for freedom fighter and Indian revolutionary Udham Singh.

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

Tehsils in Udham Singh Nagar district

Cities in Udham Singh Nagar district

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 Udham Singh Nagar district is divided into nine Vidhan Sabha constituencies:

Demographics

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1901	131,811	—
1911	131,608	−0.02%
1921	112,634	−1.54%
1931	112,804	+0.02%
1941	118,733	+0.51%
1951	136,446	+1.40%
1961	301,681	+8.26%
1971	451,717	+4.12%
1981	668,751	+4.00%
1991	924,856	+3.30%
2001	1,235,614	+2.94%
2011	1,648,902	+2.93%
source:

According to the 2011 census Udham Singh Nagar district has a population of 1,648,902, roughly equal to the nation of Guinea-Bissau or the US state of Idaho. 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. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population was 238,264 (14.45%) and 123,037 (7.46%) respectively. There were 308581 households in the district in 2011.

Religions in Udham Singh Nagar district (2011)
Religion			Percent
Hinduism			66.98%
Islam			22.58%
Sikhism			9.87%
Other or not stated			0.57%

Languages

Languages of Udham Singh Nagar district (2011)

Hindi (62.37%) Punjabi (10.09%) Bengali (7.86%) Urdu (6.38%) Kumaoni (5.22%) Bhojpuri (3.65%) Tharu (2.88%) Others (1.55%)

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%). The two Tharu languages spoken are Buksa (mostly in the development blocks of Bajpur and Gadarpur), and Rana (in the areas of Khatima and Sitarganj).

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

"District Magistrate Of UdhamSinghNagar | District UdhamSinghNagar, Government Of Uttarakhand | India". Retrieved 4 July 2023.
^ "Census of India: Udham Singh Nagar district". www.censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
"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.
Trivedi, Anupam (19 January 2010). "Sanskrit is second official language in Uttarakhand". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
"Sanskrit second official language of Uttarakhand". The Hindu. 21 January 2010. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
"Kumaoni". Ethnologue. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
धामी, भगवान सिंह (2021). यूकेपीडिया. देहरादून: समय साक्ष्य. p. 162. ISBN 978-93-90743-32-2.
सकलानी, शक्ति प्रसाद (1996). तराई रुद्रपुर का इतिहास और विकास. दिल्ली: गौरव प्रकाशन. p. 473.
Singh, Anand Raj (12 March 2015). "Mayawati may create new district to tame old foe". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
"Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India". www.censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 1 October 2011. Guinea-Bissau 1,596,677 July 2011 est.
"2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 30 September 2011. Idaho 1,567,582
"Table C-01 Population by Religion: Uttarakhand". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 2011.
^ "Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Uttarakhand". www.censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
Pant, Jagdish (2015). "Buksa/Buksari". In Devy, Ganesh; Bhatt, Uma; Pathak, Shekhar (eds.). The Languages of Uttarakhand. People's Linguistic Survey of India. Vol. 30. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. pp. 3–26. ISBN 9788125056263.
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. Vol. 30. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan. pp. 163–76. ISBN 9788125056263.

External links

Official website

Places adjacent to Udham Singh Nagar district

Nainital district

Champawat district

Udham Singh Nagar district

Nepal

v t e Populated places in Udham Singh Nagar district
Cities and towns	Bajpur Bandia Dineshpur Gadarpur Jaspur Kachnal Gosain Kashipur Kela Khera Khatima Kichha Mahua Dabra Haripura Mahua Kheraganj Nagla Pantnagar Rudrapur Shaktigarh Sitarganj Madnapur Sultanpur
Villages	Bigwara Jogither Nagla Kanthgri Kolada Ramnagar, Bajpur Ramnagar Jaspur Ramnagar Kashipur Ramnagar Range

State of Uttarakhand

State capitals: legislative: Dehradun (winter); Bhararisain (summer); judicial: Nainital

Government

Symbols	Day Emblem Song Motto
Executive	Governor Chief Minister Council of Ministers Cabinets Chief Secretary Gazette Agencies Departments Disaster Response Force Fire and Emergency Services Provincial Armed Constabulary Forest Department Police Department Public Service Commission Provincial Civil Service Provincial Police Service Provincial Forest Service
Legislature	Legislative Assembly History Speaker Leader of the Opposition
Judiciary	High Court Chief Justice Judges Bar Council Lok Adalat Lokayukta

History

Ancient
kingdoms

Medieval
kingdoms

Colonial
Uttarakhand

Company rule	Ceded and Conquered Provinces North-Western Provinces Agra Presidency
Crown rule	United Provinces of Agra and Oudh United Provinces of Agra and Oudh United Provinces

Contemporary
Uttarakhand

Geography
and
ecology

Geological
features

Mountains	Great Himalayas Garhwal Himalayas Sivalik Hills Mountain peaks Bugyals Lakes
Plains	Bhabar Terai Doab Ganges Basin

Ecoregions

Highlands	Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests Himalayan subtropical pine forests
Lowlands	Western Himalayan broadleaf forests Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests Terai–Duar savanna and grasslands Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests

Demographics

Ethnic
groups

Indo-Aryans	Garhwalis Kumaonis Jaunsaris Buksas Tharus
Tibeto-Burmans	Bhotiyas Shaukas Rajis Jads Banrawats
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes	Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes

Languages

Official

Spoken

Indo-Aryan	Garhwali Kumaoni Jaunsari Bangani Buksa Tharu
Tibeto-Burman	Rongpo Byangsi Chaudangsi Darmiya Raji Rawat Jad

Administrative
divisions

Urban	Districts Tehsils Urban Local Bodies Municipal Corporations
Rural	Parganas Community Development Blocks

Politics

Tourism

Monuments	World Heritage Site Nanda Devi and Valley of Flowers National Parks Ramsar Wetland Asan Barrage Monuments of National Importance State Protected Monuments Temples Tourist attractions in Dehradun
Chardham circuit	Gangotri Yamunotri Yamunotri Temple Badrinath Badrinath Temple Kedarnath Kedarnath Temple Sapta Badri Panch Kedar Panch Prayag Gomukh
National parks	Gangotri Govind Pashu Vihar Jim Corbett Nanda Devi Rajaji Valley of Flowers

Sports

v t e Kumaon
Division headquarters: Nainital
Main articles	B. C. T. Kumaon Engineering College HMIS Kumaon Kumaon Express Kumaon Institute of Information Technology Kumaon Kingdom Kumaon Railway Kumaon Regiment Kumaon snowtrout Kumaon University Kumaoni cuisine Kumaoni Holi Kumaoni language Kumaoni people Kumaoni Rajput Lakes of Kumaon Man-Eaters of Kumaon (movie)
Districts	Almora Bageshwar Champawat Nainital Pithoragarh Udham Singh Nagar
Major cities	Haldwani Rudrapur Kashipur Ramnagar Pithoragarh Nainital Almora Ranikhet Bageshwar Champawat

v t e Minority Concentrated Districts in India
Andaman and Nicobar Islands	Nicobar
Arunachal Pradesh	Changlang East Kameng Lower Subansiri Papum Pare Tawang Tirap West Kameng
Assam	Barpeta Bongaigaon Cachar Darrang Dhubri Dima Hasao Goalpara Hailakandi Kamrup Karimganj Kokrajhar Morigaon Nagaon
Bihar	Araria Darbhanga Katihar Kishanganj Purnia Sitamarhi West Champaran
Delhi	North East Delhi
Haryana	Gurgaon Sirsa
Ladakh	Leh
Jharkhand	Gumla Pakur Ranchi Sahibganj
Karnataka	Bidar Kalaburagi
Kerala	Wayanad Malappuram
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal
Maharashtra	Buldhana Hingoli Parbhani Washim
Manipur	Chandel Churachandpur Senapati Tamenglong Thoubal Ukhrul
Meghalaya	West Garo Hills
Mizoram	Lawngtlai Mamit
Odisha	Gajapati
Sikkim	North Sikkim
Uttar Pradesh	Amroha Baghpat Bahraich Balrampur Barabanki Bareilly Bijnor Budaun Bulandshahr Ghaziabad Kheri Lucknow Meerut Moradabad Muzaffarnagar Pilibhit Rampur Saharanpur Shahjahanpur Shrawasti Siddharthnagar
Uttarakhand	Haridwar Udham Singh Nagar
West Bengal	Bardhaman Birbhum Cooch Behar Dakshin Dinajpur Howrah Kolkata Maldah Murshidabad Nadia North 24 Parganas South 24 Parganas Uttar Dinajpur
Source: "List of 90 Minority Concentration Districts" (PDF). www.minorityaffairs.gov.in. Retrieved 2 September 2020.

v t e Hindu temples in Uttarakhand
Almora	Golu Devta Temple Jagnath Temple
Bageshwar	Bagnath Temple Baijnath Group of Temples
Chamoli	Badrinath Temple Kalpeshwar Temple Rudranath Temple Tungnath Temple
Champawat	Baleshwar Temple
Dehradun	Lakhamandal Mahasu Devta Temple Bharat Temple Tapkeshwar Mahadev Temple
Haridwar	Chandi Devi Temple Daksheswar Mahadev Temple Har Ki Pauri Mansa Devi Temple Maya Devi Temple
Nainital	Garjiya Devi Temple
Pauri Garhwal	Dhari Devi Temple Neelkanth Mahadev Temple Raghunath Binsar Mahadev Tarkeshwar Mahadev
Pithoragarh	Berinag Temple Patal Bhuvaneshwar
Rudraprayag	Guptakashi Temple Kedarnath Temple Madhyamaheshwar Temple Rudraunath Temple Triyuginarayan Temple
Tehri Garhwal	Chandrabadani Temple Rudreshwar Mahadev Temple Surkanda Devi Temple
Udham Singh Nagar	Moteshwar Mahadev Temple Balsundari Temple
Uttarkashi	Gangotri Temple Yamunotri Temple