Bakshi Ka Talab is a

nagar panchayat A nagar panchayat (town panchayat; ) or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,000 ...

town in Lucknow district of

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. It is also the headquarters of a corresponding

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, as well as a community development block of the same name. As of 2011, its population was 49,166, in 8,728 households. It consists of both residential and business settlements. Bakshi Ka Talab is an organised settlement developed by Lucknow Development Authority (LDA). It is connected to

Lucknow Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and division ...

via National Highway 24. Bakshi Ka Talab features the annual play ''Ramlila'', staged since 1972, wherein lead characters like Rama, Lakshamana and Hanumana are played by Muslim youths. This play has also been adapted into radio play "Us gaon ki ramlila" to promote communal harmony among the masses.Indian art and Culture by Nitin Singhania 2nd edition The three main commodities produced here are cement tiles and pipes,

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, and furniture. The famous Chandrika Devi Temple is located in nearby

Kathwara Kathwara is a large village in Bakshi Ka Talab block of Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh, India. As of 2011, its population is 6,740, in 1,303 households. Kathwara is a village with a long history, with legendary origins said to date back to the ...

Name and history

Bakshi Ka Talab is named after its large tank built by Bakhshi Tipur Chand, who was paymaster for

Nasir-ud-Din Haidar Shah Nasir-ud-Din Haidar Shah ( hi, नासिर उद दीन हैदर शाह , ur, ) (9 September 1803 – 7 July 1837) was the second King of Oudh from 19 October 1827 to 7 July 1837. Life He was the son of Ghazi-ud-Din Haidar ...

in the first half of the 19th century. This structure was built with flights of stairs descending to the water's surface on all four sides, and four towers marking the corners. A temple to Banke Bihari was built facing the main road, and next to it, Bakhshi Tipur Chand had a mansion built, along with a walled garden. By the turn of the 20th century, the complex had fallen into ruin. Around that time, Bakshi Ka Talab was described as being within the land belonging to Rudhoi village, to the west. It had a

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on the

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, a post office, and a village school. Bakshi Ka Talab was first upgraded to nagar panchayat status for the 2011 Census, with 23 villages being merged into the territory of the city..Currently Arun Singh Gappu is chairman of Bakshi Ka Talab Nagar Panchayat.

Demographics

As of 2011, the population of Bakshi Ka Talab town was 49,166, in 8,728 households. Children ages 0-6 numbered 6,783, making up 13.8% of the town's population. The town's

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was 910 females for every 1000 males; in the 0-6 age group it was 947. Members of

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made up 30.2% of town residents (the highest among cities in Lucknow district), and no residents were recorded as belonging to

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. The

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of Bakshi Ka Talab town was 73.8% (81.7% of males and 65.3% of females, ages 7 and up). At the block level, the population of Bakshi Ka Talab's rural areas was 239,938, which was the highest among blocks in Lucknow district.

Education

Bakshi Ka Talab has many schools includin
SR Institute of managementInstitute of Technology and Management (ITM) LucknowSt. Xavier's Inter CollegeLawrence Homan Public SchoolR.R. Group Of Institutions
There are government and private

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institutions such a
Chandra Bhanu Gupt Krishi MahavidyalayaGCRG Memorial Trust's Group of InstitutionsB.N. College of Engineering & Technology
an
ITM School of Architecture and Town Planning

Villages

Bakshi Ka Talab block contains the following 161 villages:

References

{{Lucknow district Cities and towns in Lucknow district