Sahaspur

This article is about the town in Uttar Pradesh. For the town in Uttarakhand, see Sahaspur, Uttarakhand.
Sahaspur
Town
Sahaspur is located in Uttar Pradesh
Sahaspur
Sahaspur
Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
Sahaspur is located in India
Sahaspur
Sahaspur
Sahaspur (India)
Coordinates: 29°07′15″N 78°37′15″E / 29.12083°N 78.62083°E / 29.12083; 78.62083
Country India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictBijnor
Elevation
199 m (653 ft)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total
24,463
Languages
 • OfficialHindi

Urdu

English
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registrationUP20
Websiteup.gov.in

Sahaspur is a town and a nagar panchayat in Bijnor district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Geography

Sahaspur has an average elevation of 199  metres (653  feet).

Demographics

The Sahaspur city is divided into 15 wards for which elections are held every 5 years. According to the 2011 census of India, the population of 24,463 of which 12,822 are males while 11,641 are females.

The population of Children with age of 0-6 is 3719 which is 15.20% of total population of Sahaspur (NP). In Sahaspur Nagar Panchayat, Female Sex Ratio is of 908 against the state average of 912. Moreover, Child Sex Ratio in Sahaspur is around 972 compared to Uttar Pradesh state average of 902. The literacy rate of Sahaspur city is 60.60% lower than the state average of 67.68%. In Sahaspur, Male literacy is around 64.05% while female literacy rate is 56.76%.

Religion Sahaspur (2011)

  Hinduism (8.54%)
  Islam (91.16%)
  Sikhism (0.01%)
  Jainism (0.00%)
  Christianity (0.11%)
  Buddhism (0.00%)
  Other or Not stated (0.18%)

Languages

Languages of Sahaspur (2011)[2]

  Hindi (60.70%)
  Urdu (40.25%)

Hindi and Urdu are the official languages.[3] At the time of the 2011 Census of India,60.70% of the population of the sahaspur spoke Hindi, 40.25% Urdu as their first language.[2]

Notable people

References

  1. ^ Census of India 2011: Uttar Pradesh. District Census Handbook, Bijnor: Village and Town Wise Primary Census Handbook. p 30.
  2. ^ a b "Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Uttar Pradesh". www.censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
  3. ^ "52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
  4. ^ Rai, Ankur Sharma Rajat (4 April 2016). "NIA officer Mohammed Tanzil shot dead as children watched". India Today. Retrieved 21 March 2022.