Karai is a village in
Akhand Nagar
Akhand Nagar is a community development block in Kadipur tehsil of Sultanpur district, Uttar Pradesh, India. It consists of 106 inhabited villages with a total population of 168,686 people in 25,112 households.
Akhand Nagar situated in 22 ...
block of
Kadipur
Kadipur is a town, tehsil and a nagar panchayat in Sultanpur district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is located a short distance from the bank of the Gomti River, at a crossroads between two roads heading from Sultanpur to Surapur and ...
tehsil in
Sultanpur district,
Uttar Pradesh,
India.
As of 2011, it has a population of 1,399 people, in 196 households.
It has one primary school and no healthcare facilities and it does not host a regular market or a weekly
haat.
It belongs to the
nyaya panchayat of
Sajampur.
The
1951 census recorded Karai as comprising 1 hamlet, with a total population of 426 people (217 male and 209 female), in 71 households and 71 physical houses.
The area of the village was given as 364
acre
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s.
6 residents were literate, all male.
The village was listed as belonging to the
pargana
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of
Aldemau and the
thana of
Dostpur
Dostpur is a town and a nagar panchayat in Sultanpur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. The town borders Sultanpur and Ambedkarnagar. Purvanchal Expressway passes near the town.
Geography
Dostpur town area have very critical posi ...
.
The
1961 census recorded Karai as comprising 2 hamlets, with a total population of 451 people (218 male and 243 female), in 79 households and 75 physical houses.
The area of the village was given as 364 acres.
The
1981 census recorded Karai as having a population of 766 people, in 110 households, and having an area of 147.31
hectares.
The main staple foods were listed 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 Karai as having a total population of 953 people (479 male and 474 female), in 127 households and 110 physical houses.
The area of the village was listed as 143.11 hectares.
Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 217, or 23% of the total; this group was 55% male (120) and 45% female (97).
Members of
scheduled caste
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s numbered 301, or 31.5% of the village's total population, while no members of
scheduled tribes
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were recorded.
The
literacy rate of the village was 34% (193 men and 57 women, counting only people age 7 and up).
200 people were classified as main workers (199 men and 1 woman), while 0 people were classified as marginal workers; the remaining 753 residents were non-workers.
The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 161 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 20 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 0 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 0 in mining and quarrying; 0 household industry workers; 0 workers employed in other
manufacturing, processing, service, and repair roles; 0
construction workers; 1 employed in trade and commerce; 17 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 1 in other services.
References
{{Sultanpur district
Villages in Sultanpur district