Jayapur
| Jayapur जयापुर |
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| SANSAD ADARSH GRAM under the constituency of Indian Prime Minister | |
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jayapur
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 Jayapur
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| 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.
Languages
- Hindi and Bhojpuri are spoken in jayapur village and written in Devanagari scripts.
References
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Kachahariya village | Singhai village | Birsinghpur village | |
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| Gotawa village | Pachai village | Jakkhini village221305 |
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