Bindki is a city, sub-district and a

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in Fatehpur district in the state of

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, India. It is one of the few Indian towns which has separate

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for different commodities. The markets are Bajaja Gali for

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, Sarafa Bajar for

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, Bartan Bajar for utensils, Kirana Gali for

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s, Shoe market for footwears, Fatak Bajar for

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and books, Najahi Gali for food grains, Ghihai Gali for ghee, etc. Bindki is an assembly constituency and Karan Singh Patel from BJP is the present MLA. Dayanand Inter College, Nagar Palika Nehru Inter College and Sohan Lal Dwivedi Government Girls Inter College are various inter colleges in this town. 'Bindki Road' is the nearest railway station on Delhi Howrah route, away from Bindki.

Geography

Bindki is located at . It is about from Fatehpur, from

Kanpur Kanpur or Cawnpore ( /kɑːnˈpʊər/ pronunciation (help·info)) is an industrial city in the central-western part of the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Founded in 1207, Kanpur became one of the most important commercial and military stations o ...

, from

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and from

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 ...

. It has an average elevation of . Bindki and its environs have rich and fertile regions, lying in between the

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and

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rivers. Rice is the main crop of Bindki tehsil. Nearby Chaudgra is the main industrial area.

Demographics

According to

2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, Bindki Tehsil had a population of 7,49,645 out of which 3,95,334 are males while 3,54,311 are females. The average literacy rate was 71.78% out of which male literacy was 69.47% and female literacy was 53.05%. The sex ratio was 896. Bindki Tehsil consists of 2 urban areas with urban population of 63,285 in which Bindki City had a population of 36,926 out of which males were 19,562 and females were 17,364 with the literacy rate of 77.60 per cent and

Kora Jahanabad Kora Jahanabad is a town in Fatehpur district and in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located on Kora Road, about 6 km east of Jahanabad, about 43 km south of Kanpur, 78 km west by northwest of Fatehpur, and 480 km southeast of Delhi. Local ...

Town had a population of 26,359 with 72.44% literacy however still in Bindki no commerce colleges available. The educational institutions in Bindki are dealing with science and arts faculties only. Bindki Tehsil consists of 424 villages which combines a total rural population of 6,86,360 with 71.43% literacy rate.

Notable people

Sohan Lal Dwivedi Sohan Lal Dwivedi (22 February 1906 – 1 March 1988) was an Indian poet, Gandhian and freedom fighter, known for his patriotic poems such as ''Tumhe Naman'', a poem on Mahatma Gandhi, ''Ali Racho Chand'', ''Khadi Geet'', ''Giriraj'', ''Nayanon ...

,(1906-1988) Rashtrakavi (national Hindi poet)

References

{{Fatehpur district Cities and towns in Fatehpur district