Lingiyadih is a
census town
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India
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in
Bilaspur district in the
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of
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...
.
Demographics
India
census
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, Lingiyadih had a population of 15,769. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Lingiyadih has an average literacy rate of 65%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male
literacy
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is 73%, and female literacy is 57%. In Lingiyadih, 16% of the population is under six years of age.
Ligniyadih is satellite town of
Bilaspur, which was once a village located just across
Arpa River
The Arpa ( hy, Արփա, az, Arpaçay) is a river that flows through Armenia and Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan exclave. It originates in the Vayots Dzor province (''marz'') of Armenia and is a left tributary of the Aras. It is long, and has a drain ...
flowing across Bilaspur town.
For many years, there was a large brick-kiln owned by
Mulji Jagmal Sawaria
Mulji Jagmal Sawaria, Rai Saheb (1889–1956) was a noted railway contractor, miner and Kutchi people, Kutchi businessman, who established himself at Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, India.
Early life
Moolji was born in 1889 to Jagmal Gangji Saw ...
, who was also a major landholder with his brother Ranchhod Jagmal, had laid a private
narrow gauge
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line in year 1935 for transportation of bricks across Arpa River over a railway-bridge built by him connecting kiln to his work office at Jagmal Chowk in Bilaspur. This railway line was dismantled in 1948.
[Diary of Golden Days at Jharia – A Memoir and History of Gurjar Kashtriya Samaj of Kutch in Coalfields of Jharia – written by Natwarlal Devram Jethwa of Calcutta(1998):pp:41:Rai Sahib Mulji Jagmal Sawaria - Life sketch.]
References
Cities and towns in Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh
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