Jayapur

Jayapur
जयापुर
Village
SANSAD ADARSH GRAM under the constituency of Indian Prime Minister

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jayapur
Jayapur

Location in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Coordinates: 25°12′59″N 82°49′24″E / 25.2163225°N 82.8232959°E / 25.2163225; 82.8232959Coordinates: 25°12′59″N 82°49′24″E / 25.2163225°N 82.8232959°E / 25.2163225; 82.8232959
Country  India
State Uttar Pradesh
District Varanasi
Assembly Segment Sevapuri
Block Aaraji Line
Gram Panchayat Code 74
Government
  Gram Pradhan Narayan Singh Patel
  Ex-Gram Pradhan Durgavati Devi
Population
  Total 4,200
Languages
  Official Hindi AND Bhojpuri
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 221305
Telephone code +91-0542
Sex ratio 1000/944/
Avg. annual temperature 26 °C (79 °F)
Avg. summer temperature 40 °C (104 °F)
Avg. winter temperature 18 °C (64 °F)
updated by: Vikas Singh Nirmal

Jayapur is a village in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is situated near about 28 km from the Varanasi cantt railway station and near about 7 km from the Rajatalab railway station in the Sevapuri assembly segment and Aaraji Line Block. This Place is situated at the border of the Varanasi District and Mirzapur District. Jayapur is surrounded by Arajiline Tehsil towards East, Shikhar Tehsil towards South .

The nearby Villages to Jayapur are Chandapur ( 1 km ), Panchai (1 km ),jakhini ( 3 km ), Singhai ( 1 km ), Narsara ( 2 km ), Marui ( 2 km ), Jamua ( 5 km).

The village comes under the constituency of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who adopted the village on 7 November 2014 under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana ("MP's model village scheme").[1] The village was already adopted by the Rashtriya SwayamSevak Sangh (RSS) under its ideal village scheme in 2002.

History

According to ancestors of this village, jayapur is nearly 400 years old village.According to BHU's political science department's HoD, Prof KK Mishra, in 17th century, when Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was said to be on temple-demolition spree, his soldiers caught attention of an old temple of Lord Hanuman in the village.

Demographics

Jayapur is a typical Uttar Pradesh village with a population of about 4,200. The population has a mix of Patels, Bhumihars, Brahmins, Musahar, Yadavs, Bania, Kumhar and Dalits..The village is dominated by Patels and Bhumihars. Majority population of this village are dependent upon agriculture. Jayapur has 268 hectares cultivable agriculture land.In this village there are some engineers, some Doctors, some army Soldiers[2] also.Literacy rate of this village is 76.36 per cent (among men, 89.12 per cent; among women, 61.27 per cent).[3]

Divisions

There are three villages in Jayapaur panchayat that are Jayapur, Manikpur and Musepur.

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