Kamalpur is a village in
Khiron
Khiron is a village and corresponding community development block in Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India. Located on the main Raebareli-Unnao road, Khiron is an old Muslim town that historically served as the seat of a pargana. As of 2011, t ...
block of
Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh
Raebareli district is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The city of Raebareli is the district headquarters. This district is a part of Lucknow Division in Uttar Pradesh state. The total area of Raebareli district is 3,371 S ...
, India.
It is located from
Lalganj, the tehsil headquarters.
As of 2011, it has a population of 1,118 people, in 242 households.
It has one primary school, but has no healthcare facilities, weekly
haat or permanent market.
It belongs to the
nyaya panchayat of
Tikwamau.
The
1951 census recorded Kamalpur as comprising three hamlets, with a population of 480 people (241 male and 239 female), in 95 households and 93 physical houses.
The area of the village was given as .
15 residents were literate, all male.
The village was listed as belonging to the
pargana
Pargana ( bn, পরগনা, , hi, परगना, ur, پرگنہ) or parganah, also spelt pergunnah during the time of the Sultanate period, Mughal times and British Raj, is a former administrative unit of the Indian subcontinent and each ...
of Khiron and the
thana of
Gurbakshganj.
The
1961 census recorded Kamalpur as comprising two hamlets, with a total population of 551 people (278 male and 273 female), in 108 households and 95 physical houses.
The area of the village was given as .
The
1981 census recorded Kamalpur as having a population of 737 people, in 140 households, and having an area of 184.53
hectares.
The main staple foods were given as wheat and rice.
The
1991 census
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''Census 1991'' was organised by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys in England and Wales, th ...
recorded Kamalpur as having a total population of 796 people (371 male and 425 female), in 161 households and 161 physical houses.
The area of the village was listed as .
Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 153, or 19% of the total; this group was 41% male (63) and 59% female (90).
Members of
scheduled castes made up 35% of the village's population, while no members of
scheduled tribes
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were recorded.
The
literacy rate of the village was 36% (203 men and 83 women).
232 people were classified as main workers (192 men and 40 women), while no people were classified as marginal workers; the remaining 564 residents were non-workers.
The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 182 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 43 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); no workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; no in mining and quarrying; no household industry workers; no workers employed in other
manufacturing, processing, service, and repair roles; no
construction workers; no employed in trade and commerce; no employed in transport, storage, and communications; and seven in other services.
References
{{Raebareli district
Villages in Raebareli district