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District in Uttarakhand, India
District of Uttarakhand in IndiaUdham Singh Nagar district District of Uttarakhand Dronacharya , Gurudwara Nanakana Sahib in Kashipur , Baigul Dam, Crops Research Center at Pantnagar , Metropolis city in Rudrapur Coordinates: 28°59′N 79°24′E / 28.98°N 79.40°E / 28.98; 79.40 Country India State Uttarakhand Division Kumaon Founded by Udham Singh Nagar has been carved out of Nainital. 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, Tharu,
Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST )Vehicle registration UK 06, UK 18 Website usnagar
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
Kashipur Jaspur Bajpur Gadarpur Rudrapur Kichha Sitarganj Nanakmatta Khatima Cities in Udham Singh Nagar district
Rudrapur Kashipur Jaspur Bajpur Gadarpur Dineshpur Pantnagar Kichha Sitarganj Nanakmatta 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 Udham Singh Nagar district is divided into nine Vidhan Sabha constituencies:
Bajpur Assembly constituency Kashipur Assembly constituency Rudrapur Assembly constituency Kichha Assembly constituency Sitarganj Assembly constituency Khatima Assembly constituency Gadarpur Assembly constituency Nanakmatta Assembly constituency Jaspur Assembly constituency 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
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Location in Uttarakhand
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Udham Singh Nagar district
