| Voice of Unnao : Vivek
Shrivastav
The rate of literacy is very low. Government should provide facilities
for basic primary education and even promote adult education.
The teachers are not well qualified. Children are not taught well.
They are hardly able to read and write.
The quality of education imparted in government schools are below
average.
Unnao District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 4558.0 Km2
Population in unnao (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 3,110,595
Male : 1,636,295
Female : 1,474,300
Under 6 population
Total : 417,145
Male : 218,024
Female : 199,121
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 55306
In seeing : 24177
In speech : 4639
In hearing : 2368
In movement : 19269
Mental : 4853
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 95
Sex Ratio Rank : 150
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 129 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 459 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About Unnao District
Origin of the Name
The district is named after its Headquarter town,
Unnao. About 1200 years ago, the site of this town was covered with
extensive forests. Godo Singh, a Chauhan Rajput, cleared the forests
probably in the the 3rd quarter of the 12th Century and founded
a town, called Sawai Godo, which shortly afterwards passed into
the hands of the rulers of the Kannauj, who appointed Khande Singh
as the Governor of the place. Unwant Singh, a Bisen Rajput and a
lieutenant of the Governor, killed him and built a fort here, renaming
the place as Unnao after himself.
About the District
Situated between rivers Ganga and Sai, Unnao has,
since ancient times, made place in the pages of history. The district
has been popular from the view of history, literature, religious
and cultural heritage.
The District is divided into 5 Tehsils Unnao, Hasanganj,
Safipur, Purwa & Bighapur and 16 development Blocks namely -
Ganj Moradabad, Bangarmau, Fatehpur Chaurasi, Safipur, Miyanganj,
Auras, Hasanganj, Nawabganj, Purwa, Asoha, Hilauli, Bighapur, Sumerpur,Bichia,
Sikandarpur Sirausi, Sikandarpur Karan.
Local traditions connect a number of well known
personages like Parashuram, Dasharatha, Sharvana, Valmiki, Sita,
Lava-Kusha, Rama, Bakasura, Krishna, Mayuradhvaja, Ashvatthama and
Astika, mentioned in the Ramayana & Mahabharata and the
Puranas, with differrent places in the district, adding sanctity
to them.
Many brave personalities who played a major role
in the Country's freedom struggle and sacrificed their lives for
the country, were born here. Popular among them are Raja Rao Ram
Bux Singh, Maulana Hasarat Mohani, Ram Beni Madhav, Pd. Vishambher
Dayal Tripathi, Thakur Jsasingh, Narpat Singh, Barjor Singh, Hathi
Singh, Devi Bux Singh, Mansab Ali, Kasturi Singh, Bhopal Singh and
Chandrika Bux Singh.
The District is not left behind in the field of
literature too, having produced learned persons right from Maharishi
Valmiki to Gaya Pd. Shukla, Pratap Narayan Misra, Surya Kant Tripathi
'Nirala', Maulana Hasrat Mohani, Nand Dulare Bajpayee, Sumitra Kumari
Sinha, Chandra Bhushan Trivedi (Ramai Kaka), Dr. Ram Vilas Sharma,
Jagdambika Pd. Misra, Bhagwati Charan Misra, Pratap Narayan Misra
and Shiv Mangal Singh 'Suman' .
The district is named after its Headquarter town,
Unnao. About 1200 years ago, the site of this town was covered with
extensive forests. Godo Singh, a Chauhan Rajput, cleared the forests
probably in the the 3rd quarter of the 12th Century and founded
a town, called Sawai Godo, which shortly afterwards passed into
the hands of the rulers of the Kannauj, who appointed Khande Singh
as the Governor of the place. Unwant Singh, a Bisen Rajput and a
lieutenant of the Governor, killed him and built a fort here, renaming
the place as Unnao after himself.
About the District
Situated between rivers Ganga and Sai, Unnao has,
since ancient times, made place in the pages of history. The district
has been popular from the view of history, literature, religious
and cultural heritage.
The District is divided into 5 Tehsils Unnao, Hasanganj,
Safipur, Purwa & Bighapur and 16 development Blocks namely -
Ganj Moradabad, Bangarmau, Fatehpur Chaurasi, Safipur, Miyanganj,
Auras, Hasanganj, Nawabganj, Purwa, Asoha, Hilauli, Bighapur, Sumerpur,Bichia,
Sikandarpur Sirausi, Sikandarpur Karan.
Local traditions connect a number of well known
personages like Parashuram, Dasharatha, Sharvana, Valmiki, Sita,
Lava-Kusha, Rama, Bakasura, Krishna, Mayuradhvaja, Ashvatthama and
Astika, mentioned in the Ramayana & Mahabharata and the
Puranas, with differrent places in the district, adding sanctity
to them.
Many brave personalities who played a major role
in the Country's freedom struggle and sacrificed their lives for
the country, were born here. Popular among them are Raja Rao Ram
Bux Singh, Maulana Hasarat Mohani, Ram Beni Madhav, Pd. Vishambher
Dayal Tripathi, Thakur Jsasingh, Narpat Singh, Barjor Singh, Hathi
Singh, Devi Bux Singh, Mansab Ali, Kasturi Singh, Bhopal Singh and
Chandrika Bux Singh.
The District is not left behind in the field of
literature too, having produced learned persons right from Maharishi
Valmiki to Gaya Pd. Shukla, Pratap Narayan Misra, Surya Kant Tripathi
'Nirala', Maulana Hasrat Mohani, Nand Dulare Bajpayee, Sumitra Kumari
Sinha, Chandra Bhushan Trivedi (Ramai Kaka), Dr. Ram Vilas Sharma,
Jagdambika Pd. Misra, Bhagwati Charan Misra, Pratap Narayan Misra
and Shiv Mangal Singh 'Suman' .
The freedom struggle of 1857-1858 was followed
by the transfer of power from the East India Company to the British
Crown. As soon as order had been restored, the civil administration
was re-established in the district which was named district Unnao,
with headquarters at Unnao. The size of the district was however
small till 1869, when it assumed its present form. The same year
the town of Unnao was constituted a Municipality.
In ancient times the area covered by the present
district of Unnao formed part of the region known as Kosala and
was later included in the Subha of Awadh or simply Awadh. This tract
appears to have seen civilized and settled life since very early
times. Finds from and traces of ancient remains at several places
in the district are however, fairly interesting and testify to the
antiquity of those sites.
Hiuen Tsang, the famous chinese pilgrim to India,
stayed at Kannauj for 3 months in 636 AD. From here he journeyed
a distance of about 26 kms and reached the city of Na-fo-ti-po-ku-lo
(Navadevakula) which stood on the eastern bank of Ganga. The city
was about 5 km in circumference and had in or about it, a magnificent
Deva Temple, several Buddhist Monasteries and Stupas. This place,
which is about 3 kms north-west of Bangarmau in Tehsil Safipur,
has been identified by some scholars with Nawal and is supposed
to represent the site of an important ancient city, believed to
have been upturned in the 13th century by the curse of a saint,
and still called Aundha Khera or Lauta Shahr both meaning an upturned
city. The dargah of the Muslim sant, whose curse is said to have
befallen the city, is not only the oldest Muslim monument at Bangarmau
but perhaps, in the entire district.
By far the most important ancient site in the district
is perhaps Sanchankot, also known as Sujankot, which lies in village
Ramkot, in pargana Bangarmau of Tehsil Safipur about 55 km north-west
of Unnao.
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