Machhlishahr is a town in

Jaunpur district Jaunpur district is a district in the Varanasi Division of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The district headquarters is Jaunpur which is situated on the banks of the Gomti River. It is located 228 km southeast of the state capital Luck ...

in the Indian state of

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. It is situated 30 km west of district headquarters Jaunpur. NH-231 passes through the city. Machhlishahr – Janghai – Bhadohi four-lane highway is under construction which will boost the economy of the region. Machhlishahr is 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 ...

and there has been a longstanding demand for making it a

Nagar palika parishad In India, a Municipal Council (also known as Municipality, Nagar Palika, or Nagar Palika Parishad) is an Urban Local Body that administers a city of population 100,000 or more. However, there are exceptions to that, as previously Nagar Palikas co ...

. In 2020, Machhalisahar nagar panchayat has secured 33rd all India rank in

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cleanliness survey.

Geography

Machhlishahr is located at . It has an average elevation of 84

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s (275

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). It has been assigned 222143 pincode by Indian postal services.

Demographics

As of

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, Machhlishahr had a total population of 26,107, of which 13,284 were males and 12,823 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 3,886. The total number of literates in Machhlishahr was 17,205, which constituted 65.9% of the population with male literacy of 71.0% and female literacy of 60.6%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Machhlishahr was 77.4%, of which male literacy rate was 83.8% and female literacy rate was 70.9%. The

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population was 1,841. Machhlishahr had 3740 households in 2011. India

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, Machhlishahr had a population of 22‚943. Males constitute 51.5% of the population and females 48.5%. Literacy rate is Machhlishahr city is 58.3%.

Government and politics

Members of Parliament

*1952:

Ganapati Ram Ganapati Ram (26 July 1926 – 3 April 1985) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from the Machhlishahr, Uttar Pradesh as a member of the Indian National Congress The India ...

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...

*1957:

*1962:

*1967:

Nageshwar Dwivedi Nageshwar Dwivedi (16 October 1916 – 1 January 2010) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India from the Machhlishahr, Uttar Pradesh as a member of the Indian National Congress ...

*1971:

*1977:

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Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

*1980:

Sheo Sharan Verma Sheo Sharan Verma (9 January 1925 – 27 January 2010) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha the lower house of Indian Parliament from Machhlishahr in Uttar Pradesh in 1980,1989 and 1991 as a member of the Janata Dal. Verma ...

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*1984: Sri Pati Mishra,

*1989:

*1991:

*1998: Chinmayanand,

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*1999:

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Samajwadi Party The Samajwadi Party ( SP; translation: ''Socialist Party'', founded 4 October 1992) is a Socialism, socialist political party in India, headquartered in New Delhi but mainly based in Uttar Pradesh, with significant presence in other states as w ...

*2004:

Umakant Yadav Umakant Yadav (born 3 February 1954) is an Indian politician for the Machhlishahr (Lok Sabha Constituency) in Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, ...

Bahujan Samaj Party The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is a national level political party in India that was formed to represent Bahujans (literally means "community in majority"), referring to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes (OBC), alon ...

*2009:

Tufani Saroj Tufani Saroj (born 2 July 1956) is an Indian politician in 13th and 14th Lok Sabha from Saidpur, Ghazipur and 15th Lok Sabha from MachhliShahr, Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. He represents the MachhliShahr Constituency in Jaunpur ...

*2014:

Ram Charitra Nishad Ram Charitra Nishad (1 May 1964 – 3 May 2021) was a member of the Samajwadi Party and won the 2014 Indian general elections from the Machhlishahr (Lok Sabha constituency) on Bharatiya Janata Party ticket. Early life and education Ram ...

*2019: B. P. Saroj,

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Notable people

Salaam Machhalishahari Salaam Machhalishahari (1921-1972), or Salam Machhali Sheri, was an Indian Urdu-language poet. Biography Machhalishahari was born in Machhali Shahar, a city in District Jaunpur district, Jaunpur of Uttar Pradesh, on 1 July 1921. He was fluent ...

, Indian

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''

Ghazal The ''ghazal'' ( ar, غَزَل, bn, গজল, Hindi-Urdu: /, fa, غزل, az, qəzəl, tr, gazel, tm, gazal, uz, gʻazal, gu, ગઝલ) is a form of amatory poem or ode, originating in Arabic poetry. A ghazal may be understood as a ...

and

Nazm ''Nazm'' () is a major part of Urdu and Sindhi poetry that is normally written in rhymed verse and also in modern prose-style poems. is a significant genre of Urdu and Sindhi poetry; the other one is known as ''ghazal'' (). is significantly ...

writer * Mata Prasad, former Governor, Arunachal Pradesh

References

External links

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