Jayapur | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Official Name: | Sansad Adarsh Gram under the constituency of Indian Prime Minister |
Image Alt: | http://img.amarujala.com/2015/03/31/jayapur-6-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-551ae73f1b2fc_exlst.jpg |
Pushpin Map: | India Uttar Pradesh#India |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India |
Coordinates: | 25.2163°N 82.8233°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | India |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Uttar Pradesh |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Varanasi |
Subdivision Type3: | Assembly segment |
Subdivision Name3: | Sevapuri |
Subdivision Type4: | Block |
Subdivision Name4: | Aaraji Line |
Subdivision Type5: | Gram panchayat code |
Subdivision Name5: | 74 |
Population Total: | 4200 |
Governing Body: | Gram panchayat |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Leader Title1: | Gram Pradhan |
Leader Name1: | Narayan Singh Patel |
Leader Title2: | Ex-Gram Pradhan |
Leader Name2: | Durgavati Devi |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Demographics Type1: | Languages |
Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
Demographics1 Info1: | Hindi and Bhojpuri |
Timezone1: | IST |
Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
Postal Code Type: | PIN |
Postal Code: | 221305 |
Area Code Type: | Telephone code |
Area Code: | +91-0542 |
Blank1 Name Sec1: | Sex ratio |
Blank1 Info Sec1: | 1000/944♂/♀ |
Blank1 Name Sec2: | Avg. annual temperature |
Blank1 Info Sec2: | 26°C |
Blank2 Name Sec2: | Avg. summer temperature |
Blank2 Info Sec2: | 40°C |
Blank3 Name Sec2: | Avg. winter temperature |
Blank3 Info Sec2: | 18°C |
Jayapur is a village in Varanasi tehsil, Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is about 28 km from the Varanasi cantt railway station and 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 the east and Shikhar Tehsil towards the 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), Gotva (1 km), and 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.
According to the ancestors of this village, Jayapur is nearly 400 years old. According to BHU's political science department's HoD, Prof KK Mishra, in the 17th century, when the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was said to be on a temple-demolition spree, his soldiers caught attention of an old temple of Lord Hanuman in the village.
The total population of this village is around 4200 and there are a total of 401 houses.
The literacy rate of this village is 76.36 per cent (among men, 89.12 per cent; among women, 61.27 per cent).[2]
There are four villages in Jayapaur panchayat: Jayapur, Manikpur,Musepur and jayapur(donwar k pura).
Hindi and Bhojpuri are spoken in Jayapur village and written in Devanagari scripts.