| Voice of Pilibhit :
Manoj Agarwal
Pilbhit District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 3499.0 Km2
Population in Pilibhit (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 2,037,225
Male : 1,078,525
Female : 958,700
Under 6 population
Total : 297,116
Male : 155,624
Female : 141,492
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 36548
In seeing : 18364
In speech : 2584
In hearing : 1517
In movement : 11052
Mental : 3031
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness :386
Sex Ratio Rank : 99
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 251 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 509 (Census 2001)
Minority : Yes
Brief About Pilbhit District
In 1801 when Rohilkhand was ceded to the British Pilibhit
was a Pargana of The District Of Bareilly, which lost it in 1833,
the arrangement being temporary and the tract being again united
with Bareilly in 1841. In 1871 was formed the Pilibhit subdivision
comprising Jahanabad, Pilibhit and Puranpur which was eventually
converted into a seprate District in 1879. At the introduction of
the British rule the parganas of Pilibhit, Jahanabad & Bisalpur
was formed into seprate Tehsils. Puranpur was united for this purpose
with Khutar. A redistribution of the area was effected in 1824,
when the Bisalpur Tehsil contained the Parganas of Bisalpur and
Maurari, which afterwords become a single area; Jahanabad was joined
with Richha to form tehsil Pareva & Pilibhit with Bilheri, the
HQ being at Pilibhit. In 1851 Bilheri and the other tarai
pargana were taken under direct management and in 1863 Richha was
attached to the new Baheri Tehsil, Pargana Jahanabad being assigned
to Pilibhit which also received Puranpur on its transfer in 1865.
The latter, in 1871, a became subtehsil dependent on Pilibhit. The
promotion of Puranpur into a full Tehsil occurred in 1879, while
Bisalpur throughout remained a seprate subdivision.Thus the area
is now divided into three Tehsils and four Parganas. Puranpur &
Bisalpur constituting individual Tehsils and Parganas & the
Tehsil of Pilibhit comprising the paraganas of Pilibhit and Jahanabad.
AREA:
According to the central statistical organisation the District
Pilibhit had an area of 3,504 sq.km. on July 1, 1971, occupying
49th position in the state. Major part of Pilibhit District is covered
by dense forest. Total 78478 hectare is forest.
LOCATION AND BOUDARIES:
The district of Pilibhit is the north-eastern most district
of Rohilkhand division which is situated in the sub Himalayan belt
on the boundary of Nepal. It lies between the parallels of 28o6'
and 28o53' north latitude and the meridians of
79o57' and 80o27' east longitude. On the north
are the district Udhamsingh Nagar and the territory of Nepal, on
the south lies the Shahjahanpur district, on the east the district
is flanked for a short distance by district Kheri and for the remaining
distance by the Shahjahanpur district and on the west the district
of Bareilly. POPULATION:According to the census of 1991 the total
population is 1283103, out of which 1046247 rural and 206775 urban
population.
ORIGIN NAME OF DISTRICT PILIBHIT:
The present town is of comaparatively recent origin but
there is still a village known as 'Old Pilibhit' standing on the
left bank of the Khakra river about 5 Km. to the north-east near
the road to Neoria. This village had always been occupied by the
Banjaras of the Periya clan. It is supposed that Pilibhit is the
corruption of Periya Bhit or the village mound of the Periyas and
also that the name Pilibhit has beed derived from a yellow mud wall
which once surrounded the district.
TOPOGRAPHY:
In its general appearence the district presents diverse
features and topographically may be divided into several distinct
tracts. In the north and north-west the tract is a continuation
of the Terai. The southern portion of the Bisalpur Tehsil
is similar in most respect to the adjacent tract of Bareilly and
Shahjahanpur. The eastern and smaller section approximates rather
to undeveloped forest areas of Khiri, though with the spread of
cultivation the dissimilarity between Puranpur and the rest of the
district is gradually becoming less marked.
RIVERS & WATER SOURCES:
- Sharda
- Chauka or Chuka
- Gomti
- Khanaut
- Mala
- Deoha
- Lohia
- Khakra
- Rapatua
- Sundaria & Kailas
- Absara
- Pangaili
- Fulhar Lake (Madhotanda)
- Mahadev lake (Jamunia)
- Bari lake(Bithora Kalan)
- Anwar ganj lake (Anwarganj)
- Balpur lake (Balpur mandalia)
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