Kant is a town and 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 ...
of
Shahjahanpur district
Shahjahanpur district is a districts of Uttar Pradesh India. It is a part of Bareilly division. It was established in 1813 by the British Government. Previously it was a part of district Bareilly. Geographically the main town is Shahjahanpur ...
in the Indian
state of
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...
.
Geography
Kant is located at . It has an average elevation of 485 metres (147 feet).
Kant was headquarters of British academy in 1940. It is the most growing town of Shahjahanpur just 10 km away from the main Shahjahanpur city. One freedom fighter belongs to Kant.
Demographics
India
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
, Kant had a population of 27,137. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Kant has an average literacy rate of 87%, higher than the national average of 74%: male literacy is 88%, and female literacy is 86%. In Kant, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Educational institutions
The following institutions
are running in the town area of Kant to promote education level of the public:
* Govt Degree College established in 2016 under central govt scheme RUSA.
* Maan Sharde Shiksha Mandir Inter College Kant, Shahjahanpur,
* Junior high school, Junior High School, (Old), Kant, Shahjahanpur.
* Junior High School (New), Patti Mohalla, Kant, Shahjahanpur.
* Vinoba Bhave Inter College, Kant, Shahjahanpur.
* Government, Rajkeey Inter college, Kant, Shahjahanpur.
* Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Kant, Shahjahanpur.
* Oxford
public school
Public school may refer to:
* State school (known as a public school in many countries), a no-fee school, publicly funded and operated by the government
* Public school (United Kingdom), certain elite fee-charging independent schools in England an ...
, Kant, Shahjahanpur.
* Islamiya schoolT
* Tarawati Inter College, Kamalnayanpur (kant)
* Board of Secondary Education Kant Shahjahanpur U.P.
References
Cities and towns in Shahjahanpur district
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