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Udham Singh Nagar district

{{Short description|District in Uttarakhand, India}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}

{{Use Indian English|date=June 2017}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Udham Singh Nagar

| nickname =

| settlement_type = District of Uttarakhand

| image_skyline = {{Photomontage

|size = 250

|photo1a = The ruins of Temple by the Pandava's in Kashipur.jpg

|photo1b = Nankana sahib, kashipur (3).jpg

|photo2a = Metropolis city rudrapur (2).jpg

|photo2b = Baigul Dam Lake 01.jpg

|photo3a = Sunset at Crops Research Center, Pantnagar.jpg

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| image_caption = Clockwise from top-left: Palace of Dronacharya, Gurudwara Nanakana Sahib in Kashipur, Baigul Dam, Crops Research Center at Pantnagar, Metropolis city in Rudrapur

| image_map = Udham Singh Nagar in Uttarakhand (India).svg

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| map_caption = Location in Uttarakhand

| coordinates = {{coord|28.98|N|79.40|E|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}

| subdivision_type1 = State

| subdivision_name1 = Uttarakhand

| subdivision_type2 = Division

| subdivision_name2 = Kumaon

| established_title =

| established_date =

| founder = Udham Singh Nagar has been carved out of Nainital.

| named_for = Udham Singh

| seat_type = Headquarters

| seat = Rudrapur

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| unit_pref = Metric

| area_footnotes = {{cite web|title=DISTRICT UDHAM SINGH NAGAR AT A GLANCE|url=https://www.cgwb.gov.in/old_website/District_Profile/Uttarakhand/UdhamSinghNagar.pdf|access-date=2024-05-10 |language=en-US}}

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| area_total_km2 = 2542

| elevation_footnotes =

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| population_total = 1,648,902

| population_as_of = 2011

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| population_density_km2 = auto

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| demographics_type1 = Languages

| demographics1_title1 = Official

| demographics1_info1 = Hindi{{cite web|title=52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India|url=http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf|website=nclm.nic.in|publisher=Ministry of Minority Affairs|access-date=22 December 2018 |page=18|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525141614/http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf|archive-date=25 May 2017}}

| demographics1_title2 = Additional official

| demographics1_info2 = Sanskrit{{cite news|last=Trivedi |first=Anupam |title=Sanskrit is second official language in Uttarakhand |url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/sanskrit-is-second-official-language-in-uttarakhand/story-wxk51l8Re4vNxofrr7FAJK.html |newspaper=Hindustan Times |date=19 January 2010 |access-date=30 August 2017}}{{cite news|title=Sanskrit second official language of Uttarakhand|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-otherstates/Sanskrit-second-official-language-of-Uttarakhand/article15965492.ece |work=The Hindu |date=21 January 2010 |access-date=30 August 2017}}

| demographics1_title3 = Regional

| demographics1_info3 = Khari Boli, Kumaoni, Tharu, Punjabi, Bengali, Urdu, Bhojpuri

| timezone1 = IST

| utc_offset1 = +5:30

| postal_code_type =

| postal_code =

| registration_plate = UK 06, UK 18

| website = {{URL|usnagar.nic.in}}

| footnotes =

| leader_title = District Magistrate

| leader_name = Mr. Uday Raj Singh, IAS{{Cite web |title=District Magistrate Of Udham Singh Nagar {{!}} District Udham Singh Nagar, Government Of Uttarakhand {{!}} India |url=https://usnagar.nic.in/whos-who/ |access-date=2024-05-10 |language=en-US}}

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Udham Singh Nagar is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. Rudrapur is the district headquarter. The district consists of nine Tehsils named Bajpur, Gadarpur, Jaspur, Kashipur, Khatima, Kichha, Nanakmatta, Rudrapur, 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 on 29 September 1995,{{Cite book|last=धामी|first=भगवान सिंह|title=यूकेपीडिया|publisher=समय साक्ष्य|year=2021|isbn=978-93-90743-32-2|location=देहरादून|pages=162}}{{Cite book|last=सकलानी|first=शक्ति प्रसाद|title=तराई रुद्रपुर का इतिहास और विकास|publisher=गौरव प्रकाशन|year=1996|location=दिल्ली|pages=473}} by Mayawati government out of Nainital District. It is named for freedom fighter and Indian revolutionary Udham Singh.{{cite web | last=Singh | first=Anand Raj | title=Mayawati may create new district to tame old foe | website=The New Indian Express | date=12 March 2015 | url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/article398789.ece | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604045449/http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/article398789.ece | url-status=dead | archive-date=4 June 2016 | access-date=14 May 2016}}

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

  1. Jaspur
  2. Kashipur
  3. Bajpur
  4. Gadarpur
  5. Rudrapur
  6. Kichha
  7. Sitarganj
  8. Nanakmatta
  9. Khatima

Cities in Udham Singh Nagar

  1. Rudrapur
  2. Kashipur
  3. Khatima
  4. Sitarganj
  5. Kichha
  6. Jaspur
  7. Bajpur
  8. Gadarpur
  9. Dineshpur
  10. Pantnagar
  11. Nanakmatta
  12. Sultanpur

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:

  1. Bajpur Assembly constituency
  2. Kashipur Assembly constituency
  3. Rudrapur Assembly constituency
  4. Kichha Assembly constituency
  5. Sitarganj Assembly constituency
  6. Khatima Assembly constituency
  7. Gadarpur Assembly constituency
  8. Nanakmatta Assembly constituency
  9. Jaspur Assembly constituency

Demographics

{{historical populations|11=1901|12=1,31,811|13=1911|14=1,31,608|15=1921|16=1,12,634|17=1931|18=1,12,804|19=1941|20=1,18,733|21=1951|22=1,36,446|23=1961|24=3,01,681|25=1971|26=4,51,717|27=1981|28=6,68,751|29=1991|30=9,24,856|31=2001|32=12,35,614|33=2011|34=16,48,902|percentages=pagr|footnote=source:{{Cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/2011census/PCA/A2_Data_Table.html|title=Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India|website=www.censusindia.gov.in|access-date=23 December 2019}}|align=middle}}

According to the 2011 census Udham Singh Nagar district has a population of 1,648,902,{{cite web |title=Census of India: Udham Singh Nagar district |url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=61805 |website=www.censusindia.gov.in |access-date=23 December 2019}} roughly equal to the nation of Guinea-Bissau{{cite web | author = US Directorate of Intelligence | title = Country Comparison:Population | url = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070613004507/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 13 June 2007 | access-date = 1 October 2011 | quote = Guinea-Bissau 1,596,677 July 2011 est. }} or the US state of Idaho.{{cite web|url=http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text.php|title=2010 Resident Population Data|publisher=U. S. Census Bureau|access-date=30 September 2011| quote =Idaho 1,567,582}} 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.

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{{bar percent|Hinduism|darkorange|66.98}}

{{bar percent|Islam|green|22.58}}

{{bar percent|Sikhism|darkkhaki|9.87}}

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= Languages =

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|caption = Languages of Udham Singh Nagar district (2011)

|label1 = Hindi |value1 = 62.37 |color1 = orange

|label2 = Punjabi |value2 = 10.09 |color2 = pink

|label3 = Bengali |value3 = 7.86 |color3 = orchid

|label4 = Urdu |value4 = 6.38 |color4 = green

|label5 = Kumaoni |value5 = 5.22 |color5 = lightcoral

|label6 = Bhojpuri |value6 = 3.65 |color6 = skyblue

|label7 = Tharu |value7 = 2.88 |color7 = tomato

|label8 = Others |value8 = 1.55 |color8 = grey

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The major languages of the district according to the 2011 census are Hindi ({{sigfig|62.37|2}}%), Punjabi ({{sigfig|10.09|2}}%), Bengali ({{sigfig|7.856|2}}%), Urdu ({{sigfig|6.377|2}}%), Kumaoni ({{sigfig|5.220|2}}%), Bhojpuri ({{sigfig|3.647|2}}%), and Tharu ({{sigfig|2.881|2}}%). The two Tharu languages spoken are Buksa (mostly in the development blocks of Bajpur and Gadarpur),{{Cite book| last = Pant| first = Jagdish| year = 2015| chapter = Buksa/Buksari| pages = 3–26| title = The Languages of Uttarakhand | editor-last1= Devy| editor-first1 = Ganesh| editor-last2= Bhatt| editor-first2 = Uma| editor-last3= Pathak| editor-first3 = Shekhar| series = People's Linguistic Survey of India| volume = 30| number = 2 | place = Hyderabad| publisher = Orient Blackswan| isbn = 9788125056263}} and Rana (in the areas of Khatima and Sitarganj).{{cite web|editor-last1 = Eberhard| editor-first1 = David M.| editor-last2 = Simons| editor-first2 = Gary F.| editor-last3 = Fennig| editor-first3 = Charles D.| year=2019|title=India – Languages|edition=22nd|website = Ethnologue|publisher=SIL International|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/country/IN/languages | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190401120331/https://www.ethnologue.com/country/IN/languages | archive-date = 1 April 2019}}
{{Cite book| last = Singh| first = Sidheswar| year = 2015| chapter = Tharu| title = The Languages of Uttarakhand | editor-last1= Devy| editor-first1 = Ganesh| editor-last2= Bhatt| editor-first2 = Uma| editor-last3= Pathak| editor-first3 = Shekhar| series = People's Linguistic Survey of India| volume = 30| number = 2 | place = Hyderabad| publisher = Orient Blackswan| isbn = 9788125056263| pages = 163–76}}

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! colspan=4| Udham Singh Nagar district: mother-tongue of population, according to the 2011 Indian Census.{{Cite web |title=Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Uttarakhand|url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/10225/download/13337/DDW-C16-STMT-MDDS-0500.XLSX|website=www.censusindia.gov.in|publisher=Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India}}

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! Mother tongue code

! Mother tongue

! People

! Percentage

valign=top002007Bengali

| align=right | 129,537

| align=right | 7.9%

valign=top006030Awadhi

| align=right | 1,412

| align=right | 0.1%

valign=top006102Bhojpuri

| align=right | 60,141

| align=right | 3.6%

valign=top006195Garhwali

| align=right | 5,840

| align=right | 0.4%

valign=top006240Hindi

| align=right | 1,028,354

| align=right | 62.4%

valign=top006340Kumauni

| align=right | 86,078

| align=right | 5.2%

valign=top006439Pahari

| align=right | 2,067

| align=right | 0.1%

valign=top010011Purbi Maithili

| align=right | 1,392

| align=right | 0.1%

valign=top010014Tharu

| align=right | 47,501

| align=right | 2.9%

valign=top014011Nepali

| align=right | 1,622

| align=right | 0.1%

valign=top016038Punjabi

| align=right | 166,327

| align=right | 10.1%

valign=top019014Sindhi

| align=right | 1,142

| align=right | 0.1%

valign=top022015Urdu

| align=right | 105,148

| align=right | 6.4%

valign=top053005Gujari

| align=right | 859

| align=right | 0.1%

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| align=center | –

Others

| align=right | 11,482

| align=right | 0.7%

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| colspan=2 | Total

| align=right | 1,648,902

| align=right | 100.0%

Education

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

References

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External links

  • {{Official website|http://usnagar.nic.in}}

{{Geographic location

|Centre = Udham Singh Nagar district

|North = Nainital district

|Northeast = Champawat district

|East = {{NEP|Nepal}}

|Southeast = Pilibhit district

|South = Bareilly district

|Southwest = Rampur district

|West = Bijnor district

|Northwest = Pauri Garhwal district

}}

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