Raipur is a village in Sareni block of

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. It is located 21 km from Lalganj, the

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headquarters. As of 2011, it has a population of 1,672 people, in 408 households. It serves as the headquarters of a nyaya panchayat which also includes 11 other villages. The 1951 census recorded Raipur as comprising 2 hamlets, with a total population of 641 people (319 male and 322 female), in 137 households and 107 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 512

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s. 76 residents were literate, 75 male and 1 female. 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 Sareni and the

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of Sareni. The 1961 census recorded Raipur as comprising 4 hamlets, with a total population of 868 people (408 male and 460 female), in 142 households and 123 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 512

s and it had a medical practitioner at that point. The 1981 census recorded Raipur as having a population of 1,061 people, in 206 households, and having an area of 209.22

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s. The main staple foods were given as wheat and rice. The

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recorded Raipur as having a total population of 1,051 people (526 male and 525 female), in 209 households and 209 physical houses. The area of the village was listed as 208 hectares. Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 132, or 13% of the total; this group was 55% male (72) and 45% female (60). Members of

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made up 33% of the village's population, while no members of

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were recorded. The

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of the village was 51% (346 men and 189 women). 321 people were classified as main workers (245 men and 76 women), while 0 people were classified as marginal workers; the remaining 730 residents were non-workers. The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 190 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 75 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 1 worker in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 0 in mining and quarrying; 0 household industry workers; 10 workers employed in other

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, processing, service, and repair roles; 0

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s; 10 employed in trade and commerce; 0 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 35 in other services.

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{{Raebareli district Villages in Raebareli district