Jayapur

Jayapur जयापुर
Village
SANSAD ADARSH GRAM under the constituency of Indian Prime Minister
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jayapur
Jayapur Jayapur Location in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Coordinates: 25°12′59″N 82°49′24″E / 25.2163225°N 82.8232959°ECoordinates: 25°12′59″N 82°49′24″E / 25.2163225°N 82.8232959°E
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Varanasi
Assembly Segment	Sevapuri
Block	Aaraji Line
Gram Panchayat Code	74
Government
• Body	Gram panchayat
• 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 . http://www.wikivillage.in/village/uttar-pradesh/varanasi/arajiline/jayapur#updates 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.

Population

Total population of this village is around 4200 and there are total 401 houses in this village.

Village News

Village website and updated news details of Jayapur village.

^[2] http://www.wikivillage.in/village/uttar-pradesh/varanasi/arajiline/jayapur#updates

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^[3] also.Literacy rate of this village is 76.36 per cent (among men, 89.12 per cent; among women, 61.27 per cent).^[4]

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

1. "Modi in Varanasi says Jayapur has adopted me, not the other way around".
2. http://www.wikivillage.in/village/uttar-pradesh/varanasi/arajiline/jayapur#updates
3. "In 2003, an army personnel Ajay Kumar Singh from the village attained martyrdom while fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir.'". The Times of India.
4. "PM Modi Congratulates Students From Jayapur Village for Topping Exam scored 94.16 per cent, the most by any student in the district". NDTV.com.

External links

• Official Website of Adarsh Gram Jayapur - Prime Minister's adopted village