Baraut

Baraut
City
Office of Baraut Municipality
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Coordinates: 29°10′02″N 77°26′29″E
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
Division	Meerut
District	Baghpat
Government
• Body	Municipality
• Chairperson	Babita Tomar[1]
Area
• Total	10.36 km^2 (4.00 sq mi)
Elevation	231 m (758 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	103,764
Language
• Official	Hindi[2]
• Additional official	Urdu[2]
• Regional	Khariboli
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	250611
Telephone code	91-1234 xxx xxx
Vehicle registration	UP-17
Sex ratio	70.22% ♂/51.12% ♀
Literacy rate	Crude (66.2%), Effective (76.7%)

Baraut is a city and municipal board in Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Name

According to Paul Whalley, the name Baṛaut is derived from baṛ, one of the Hindi-Urdu names for the banyan tree, plus the Sanskrit possessive suffix -vat (which has often been shortened to -aut in modern place names), so the name originally meant "having banyan trees".^{[3]: 89–90}

Geography

Baraut is located at 29.6°N 77.16°E, covering an area of 10.36 square kilometres (4.00 sq mi) and lying between the Ganga and Yamuna river plains. Its average elevation is 231 m (758 feet). Baraut is served by NH-709B and state highways SH-57 and SH-82.

Baraut is located 55 kilometers (34 mi) from Delhi (the national capital of India) and 55 kilometers from Meerut, and is within the National Capital Region (NCR).

Demographics

Population

As of 2011 Indian Census, Baraut had a total population of 103,764, of which 55,013 were males and 48,751 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 14,149. The total number of literates in Baraut was 68,690, which constituted 66.2% of the population with male literacy of 71.8% and female literacy of 59.9%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Baraut was 76.7%, of which male literacy rate was 83.5% and female literacy rate was 69.0%. The Scheduled Castes population was 6,357. Baraut had 17924 in 2011.^[4]

Religion

Religion in Baraut City[5]
Religion			Percent
Hinduism			58.10%
Islam			31.47%
Jainism			9.99%
Others			0.45%

Most people in the city are followers of Hinduism, with significant population of Muslims and Jains.^[5]

Baraut is a multi-religious place with 32 temples, 21 mosques, 1 gurdwara, and 2 churches in Baraut city.^[6]

Languages

The official languages of the city is Hindi, and Urdu is the additional official language.^[2] Khariboli (similar to Haryanvi) is the regional Hindi dialect spoken in Baraut and the adjoining area.

Administration and politics

Baraut is one of the 403 constituencies of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, India. The first election of this assembly constituency was held in 1952.^[7] In 1952, Umrao Dutta Ved won the elections and became the first Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Baraut.^[8] After the 1969 elections, the constituency was dissolved. In 2008, when the "Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies Order, 2008" was passed, the constituency was re-constituted and elections were held in 2012. The constituency is assigned identification number 51. Krishan Pal Malik of BJP is the MLA after winning second consecutive term in 2017 and 2022.^[9] Babita Tomar is the chairman of the town.^[1]

Baraut is part of the National Capital Region (NCR). It is part of the Baghpat district, which was established as a separate district in 1997. Prior to that, Baghpat was a tehsil within Meerut district.

Villages in Baraut tehsil

• Alawalpur
• Baoli
• Gopalpur Khadana
• Nagla Rawa

See also

• Asara, India
• Kishanpur baral
• List of cities in Uttar Pradesh

References

1. "Welcome to Nagar Palika Parishad, Baraut". nppbaraut.in. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
2. "52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
3. Whalley, Paul (1927). "Place-Names in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Chapter III, Section 2: Suffixes". The Journal of the United Provinces Historical Society. 3 (3): 52–98. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
4. "Census of India: Baraut". www.censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
5. "C-1 Population By Religious Community - Baraut". censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
6. "About Baraut". 2002. Archived from the original on 10 April 2007. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
7. "DPACO (1952)". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
8. "1952 Election Results" (PDF). Election Commission of India website. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
9. "krishan-pal-malik in Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2022". News18. Retrieved 29 May 2022.

External links

• Official site of Baraut