Firozpur district explained

Firozpur district
Native Name:	Firojpur district
Settlement Type:	District
Coordinates:	30.94°N 74.62°W
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	India
Subdivision Type1:	State
Subdivision Name1:	Punjab
Founder:	Firoz Shah Tughluq
Named For:	Firoz Shah Tughluq
Seat Type:	Headquarters
Seat:	Firozpur
Unit Pref:	Metric
Area Total Km2:	2406.84
Area Rank:	230th
Population Total:	1001931
Population As Of:	2011
Population Density Km2:	auto
Demographics Type1:	Languages
Demographics1 Title1:	Official
Timezone1:	IST
Utc Offset1:	+5:30
Postal Code:	City - 152001, Cantt - 152002
Registration Plate:	PB 05
Blank1 Name Sec1:	Literacy
Blank1 Info Sec1:	69.80%
Demographics1 Info1:	Punjabi
Blank2 Name Sec1:	No. of villages
Blank2 Info Sec1:	639
Blank3 Name Sec1:	Lok Sabha constituency
Blank3 Info Sec1:	1
Blank4 Name Sec1:	Vidhan Sabha constituency
Blank4 Info Sec1:	4

Firozpur district, also known as Ferozepur district, is one of the twenty-three districts in the state of Punjab, India. Firozpur district comprises an area of .

Firozpur (Ferozepur) is the capital city of the district. It is situated inside ten gates—Amritsari Gate, Wansi Gate, Makhu Gate, Zira Gate, Bagdadi Gate, Mori Gate, Delhi Gate, Magjani Gate, Multani Gate, and Kasuri Gate.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census the undivided Firozpur district had a population of 2,029,074.^[1] This gives it a ranking of 230th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of 380PD/sqkm. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 16.08%. Firozpur has a sex ratio of 893 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 69.8%. (This data is before the creation of Fazilka district.)^[2]

After bifurcation of Fazilika district, the residual district has a population of 1,001,931. Scheduled Castes made up 42.85% of the population.^[3]

Gender

The table below shows the sex ratio of Firozpur district through decades.

Sex ratio of Firozpur district^[4] !Census year!!Ratio

2011	893
2001	885
1991	895
1981	884
1971	876
1961	840
1951	835
1941	810
1931	814
1921	802
1911	778
1901	826

The table below shows the child sex ratio of children below the age of 6 years in the rural and urban areas of Firozpur district.

Child sex ratio of children below the age of 6 years in Firozpur district^[5] !Year!!Urban!!Rural

2011	838	845
2001	813	825

Religion

Religious
group! colspan="2"

2011^[6]
	1,090,815
	906,408
	19,358
	6,844
	1,143
	454
Others	4,052
Total Population	2,029,074

Religious
group! colspan="2"

1901^[7]	1911^[8] ^[9]		1921^[10]		1931^[11]		1941^[12]
	447,615		418,553		482,540		515,430		641,448
	279,099		273,832		306,350		244,688		287,733
	228,355		262,511		302,761		388,108		479,486
	1,908		3,342		5,365		7,070		12,607
	1,090		1,401		1,211		1,411		1,674
	4		18		15		24		28
	0		0		6		1		1
	0		0		0		0		13
Others	1		0		0		0		86
Total population	958,072		959,657		1,098,248		1,156,732		1,423,076

Tehsil! colspan="2"

									Others		Total
Firozpur Tehsil	53,520		160,371		70,782		3,847		745		1,021		290,286
Zira Tehsil	18,863		137,586		50,209		3,801		349		11		210,819
Moga Tehsil	30,531		66,855		181,454		823		32		68		279,763
Muktsar Tehsil	46,169		115,350		106,270		948		313		529		269,579
Fazilka Tehsil	138,650		161,286		70,771		1,612		235		75		372,629

Language

At the time of the 2011 census, 93.01% of the population spoke Punjabi and 5.67% Rajasthani as their first language.^[13]

Politics

No.	Constituency	Name of MLA	Party		Bench
75	Zira	Naresh Kataria		Government
76	Firozpur City	Ranveer Singh Bhullar		Government
77	Firozpur Rural (SC)	Rajnish Dahiya		Government
78	Guru Har Sahai	Fauja Singh Srari		Government

Administration

The district is administratively into the following tehsils:^[1]

• Firozpur
• Zira
• Guru Har Sahai

List of Sub-Tehsils of Firozpur

• Makhu
• Talwandi Bhai
• Mamdot
• Mudki

Blocks of district Firozpur

• Firozpur
• Ghall Khurd
• Guru Har Sahai
• Makhu
• Mamdot
• Zira

Vidhan Sabha Seats in Firozpur

• Firozpur
• Firozpur Rural
• Guru Har Sahai
• Zira

Notable people

• Mohinder Singh Randhawa, a historian, civil servant, botanist, and author
• Harvinder Sahota, an Indian American cardiologist, researcher and inventor, known for the invention of Perfusion Balloon Angioplasty known as "Sahota Perfusion Balloon"
• Kamaljeet Sandhu, an athlete, first Indian woman to win an individual gold medal in Asian games and receiver of Padma Shri award.
• Man Mohan Sondhi, researcher in speech processing and signal processing who worked at Bell Laboratories, famous for his research on echo cancellation.
• Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa, first Hazoori Ragi to awarded the Padma Shri, highly regarded ragi with knowledge of all 31 Raags of Guru Granth Sahib.
• Sada Kaur, Rani of Sarkar-e-Khalsa.
• Gerry Whent, founder and first chief executive of Vodafone.
• Mahabali Shera, Indian professional wrestler.
• Bano Qudsia, a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist
• Verma Malik, an active freedom fighter during the British Raj, a lyricist in bollywood and punjabi movies, poet.
• Frederick Currie (cricketer), an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

External links

• Web site: District Ferozepur . 2007-10-18.
• Ferozepur. 10. 281–282.

Notes and References

1. http://ferozepur.nic.in/html/population.html Population - Firozpur Online
2. Web site: District Census Hand Book – Firozpur . . Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
3. Web site: Demography District Ferozepur, Government of Punjab India . 2022-10-19 . en-US.
4. Web site: District-wise Decadal Sex ratio in Punjab . Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India . 21 January 2022 . 20 November 2023.
5. Web site: Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India . 21 January 2022 .
6. Web site: Table C-01 Population by Religious Community: Punjab . censusindia.gov.in . Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
7. Web site: Census of India 1901. [Vol. 17A]. Imperial tables, I-VIII, X-XV, XVII and XVIII for the Punjab, with the native states under the political control of the Punjab Government, and for the North-west Frontier Province. ]. saoa.crl.25363739 . 23 March 2024 . 1901 . 34.
8. Web site: Census of India 1911. Vol. 14, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables. . saoa.crl.25393788 . 23 March 2024 . 1911 . 27.
9. Web site: Census Of India 1911 Punjab Vol XIV Part II . 23 March 2024 . 1911 . 27 . Kaul, Harikishan.
10. Web site: Census of India 1921. Vol. 15, Punjab and Delhi. Pt. 2, Tables. . saoa.crl.25430165 . 23 March 2024 . 1921 . 29.
11. Web site: Census of India 1931. Vol. 17, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables. . saoa.crl.25793242 . 23 March 2024 . 1931 . 277.
12. Web site: Census of India, 1941. Vol. 6, Punjab . saoa.crl.28215541 . 23 March 2024 . 1941 . 42 . India Census Commissioner . 6 .
13. Web site: Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Punjab . censusindia.gov.in . Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.