| Voice of Sultanpur :
Bhagwati Prasad Singh
The main challenge we face is in terms of education. The quality
of education is very poor. The drop rate is also very high.
There is hardly any electric supply. Mostly we spend our time in
darkness.
Health facilities are poorly maintained. Hospitals in villages do
not have good doctors and even medicines are not available.
Unemployment is a grave issue. Youths are getting frustrated due
to unavailability of jobs. This makes their future bleak. Government
is not doing much on this front.
Sultanpur District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 4436.0 Km2
Population in Sultanpur (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 3,790,992
Male : 1,916,297
Female : 1,874,625
Under 6 population
Total : 539,347
Male : 280,754
Female : 258,593
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 72316
In seeing : 42139
In speech : 4526
In hearing : 2508
In movement : 16256
Mental : 6887
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 213
Sex Ratio Rank : 454
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 53 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 442 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About Sultanpur District
At a Glance
The city of Sultanpur (which gives its name to the district) lies
in latitude 26 degree 15 minutes north and longitude 82 degree 05
minutes east on the right bank of Gomti about 61 km south of Faizabad,
42 km north of Pratapgarh and 138 km south-east of Lucknow. It is
on the branch line of Lucknow-Jaunpur section of the Northern Railway
(broad guage) passing through Sultanpur, Jafrabad and Jaunpur. Another
branch line of trhe same railway connects it with Faizabad and Allahabad.
Metalled road connects it Faizabad, Shahganj (district Jaunpur),
Jaunpur, Pratapgarh, Raebareli and Lucknow.
District road connects Sultanpur with Amethi.
The original town was situated on the left bank of the Gomti. It
is said to have been founded by Kusa, son of Rama, and to have been
named after him Kusapura or Kusabhavanpur. This ancient city has
been identified by General Cunnigham with the Kusapur mentioned
by Hiuentsang, the Chinese traveller. He states that there was in
his time a dilapidated stupa of Ashoka and that Buddha taught here
for six months. There are Buddhist remains still visible at Mahmoodpur
, a village, 8 km distant to the north-west of Sultanpur. The town
subsequently fell into the hands of Bhars, who retained it until
it was taken from them by Musalmans in the 12th century. About seven
hundred and fifty years ago, it is said, two brothers, Sayid Muhammad
and Sayid Ala-ud-Din, horse dealer by profession, visited eastern
Avadh and offered some horses for sale to Bhar Chieftains of Kusabhavanpur,
who seized the horses and put the two brothers to death. This came
to the ear of Ala-ud-Din Khilji, who would not allow such an outrage
to pass unpunished. Gathering a mighty force, therefore, he set
out for Kusabhavanpur and took revenge by killing most of the Bhars
by strategem adopted after a long drawn seige. Kusabhavanpur was
reduced to ashes and the town of Sultanpur,
so called from the rank of the victor, rose upon its ruins. This
town was finally raised to the ground during the military operations
connected with the reoccupation of the province in consequence of
the inhabitants having been concerned in the murder of British
officers at the outbreak of the freedom struggle of 1857.
Before annexation a military station and cantonement were established
on the right bank of the river in a village then known as Girghit
but more commonly called by officials Sultanpur or Chhaoni Sarkar
and by the rustic population Kampu or the Camp. The present town
of the Sultanpur has been developed at this site. In this city there
are two parks, one maintained by Soldiers', Sailers' and Airmen's
board and other privately maintained known as Chimanlal
Park. A library called
Vinayak Mehta library, aided by Municipal Board is the only library
in the city. It is run by the Vinayak Mehta Library Trust Association
and contains over 10,000 books.
In Chowk there is a clock tower. On the bank of Gomti is Sitakund,
where Sita bathed as she accompanied her husband (the Loard Rama)
on his exile. Bathing fairs are held there in Chaitra and Kartika.
In civil lines opposite the collectorate is a church known as Christ
Church which was opened
and consecrated on the 16th November 1869.
Next to the church, on the south side, stands Victoria Manzil, built
in commemoration of the first jubilee of Queen Victoria.
Now its is called as Sunder Lal Memorial Hall and it houses the
office of the Municipal Board. A stadium, named as Pant stadium
has been built in the city in 1954-55.
Geographic area of the district is 4436 sq km. It may be called
an agrarian area as agriculture is the main occupation of the people.
Sultanpur, the head quarter of the district is the only town
of importance having municipal board. Other town areas are Amethi,
Musafirkhana, Dostpur, Kadipur and Koeripur. There are
six tehsils and tewnty two development blocks
which form the district. Namely, Sadar (Sultanpur), Kadipur, Musafirkhana,
Amethi, Gauriganj and newly formed Lambhua are the tehsils.
There are one municipality and five town areas in the district.
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