Tikri is a village in Bhetua block of

Amethi district Amethi is one of the 75 districts of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. This district is a part of Ayodhya division in the Awadh region of Uttar Pradesh. It covers an area of 2,329.11 km2. Gauriganj is the administrative headqua ...

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. As of 2011, it has a population of 7,165 people, in 1,142 households. It has 3 primary schools and no healthcare facilities and does not host a weekly

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or permanent market. It belongs to the

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of Amey Maphi. The 1951 census recorded Tikri as comprising 17 hamlets, with a total population of 2,700 people (1,283 male and 1,417 female), in 555 households and 536 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 2,453

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s. 19 residents were literate, all male. The village was listed as belonging to the

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Amethi Amethi is a city situated in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Gauriganj is the administrative headquarters of the Amethi district. This district is a part of Ayodhya division in the Awadh region of the state. Amethi was 72nd district of ...

and the

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of Raipur. The village had a district board-run primary school with 99 students in attendance as of 1 January 1951. The 1961 census recorded Tikri as comprising 17 hamlets, with a total population of 2,835 people (1,353 male and 1,482 female), in 588 households and 562 physical houses. The area of the village was given as 2,453 acres and it had a post office at that point. The 1981 census recorded Tikri as having a population of 3,853 people, in 789 households, and having an area of 909.77

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

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recorded Tikri (as "Tikree") as having a total population of 4,627 people (2,359 male and 2,268 female), in 915 households and 910 physical houses. The area of the village was listed as 910.00 hectares. Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 881, or 19% of the total; this group was 56% male (495) and 44% female (386). Members of scheduled castes numbered 1,055, or 23% of the village's total population, while no members of scheduled tribes were recorded. The

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of the village was 40% (1,124 men and 382 women, counting only people age 7 and up). 1,401 people were classified as main workers (1,176 men and 225 women), while 121 people were classified as marginal workers (5 men and 116 women); the remaining 3,105 residents were non-workers. The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 974 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 267 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 8 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 0 in mining and quarrying; 11 household industry workers; 7 workers employed in other

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, processing, service, and repair roles; 2

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s; 31 employed in trade and commerce; 14 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 87 in other services.

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{{Amethi district Villages in Amethi district