| Voice of Balrampur :
Ramashankar Yadav
Following are the social and developmental challenges of the district:
· Illiteracy is very rampant in the district.
· Countable few women are educated in the district
· Poverty is another main issue in the district which hinders
the developmental growth of the district.
· Serious efforts by the central and state government are
required to uplift the status of district.
Balrampur District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 2927.0 Km2
Population in Balrampur (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 2,149,066
Male : 1117984
Female : 1031082
Under 6 population
Total : 385308
Male : 195808
Female : 189500
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 35846
In seeing : 23251
In speech : 3014
In hearing : 1058
In movement : 6123
Mental : 2400
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 275
Sex Ratio Rank : 137 (Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C (HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 -2006)
Disability : 255 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 586 (Census 2001)
Minority : Yes
Water : Occurrence of High Arsenic in Ground Water
Brief About Balrampur District
Short History
Founded by BALRAM DAS after whom the state was named. The biggest
Taluqdari in Oudh.
Rulers were..
Raja NAWAL SINGH 1777/-
Raja ARJUN SINGH
Raja JAI NARAIN SINGH -/1836 , died 1836.
HH Hon. Maharaja Bahadur Sir DIGVIJAY SINGH 1836/1882, born 1818,
K.C.S.I., granted a salute of 9 guns, died 27th May 1882.
HH Maharani Indra Kunwar (widow of above) 1882/-
Maharaja Bahadur Sir BHAGWATI PRASAD SINGH (adoptive son) 1896/1921,
born 19th July 1879, K.C.I.E. [cr.1906], K.C.S.I., married and had
issue. He died 25th May 1921.
Maharaja Bahadur Sir PATESHWARI PRASAD SINGH (qv) Daughter (6th),
married 16th January 1929 Capt. HH Bisam-Samar-Bijayi Mahamahodya
Pancha-Srijukta
Maharaja Manikya Sir BIR BIKRAM KISHORE DEV VARMAN Bahadur of Tripura.
Maharaja Bahadur Sir PATESHWARI PRASAD SINGH 1921/1964, born 2nd
January 1914, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer; Kt. [cr.1941], married
1932 Maharani Rajya Laxmi Kumari Devi (1918-1999), daughter of HH
Maharaja Chandra Shumsher Jung Bahadur Rana of Nepal. He died sp
1964 and was succeeded by his adoptive son from Gangwal.
Maharaja Bahadur DHARMENDRA PRASAD SINGH
About District
BALRAMPUR, a town of British India near the river Rapti, 28
m. from Gonda, in the Gonda district of the United Provinces. Pop.
(1901) 16,723. It gives its name to one of the largest ialu-kdari
estates in the province. The raja, Sir Drigbijai Singh K.C.S.I.,
was conspicuously l0yal during the Mutiny, and was rewarded with
accessions of territory and hereditary privileges. His death in
1882 gave rise to prolonged litigation and the estate was thrown
into chancery. The in-come is estimated at 120,000, paying a revenue
of 46,000. Numerous schools and hospitals are supported. Balrampur
contains a large palace, a handsome modern temple and an Anglo-vernacular
school.
DHARMENDRA PRASAD SINGH (1964/-) born 1958, educated
at Mayo College, Ajmer; married 6th March 1980 Maharani Vandana
Rajya Lakshmi, daughter of Lt. Col. Ina Shumshere Jung Bahadur Rana
of Nepal and has issue. Maharaj Kumar Jayendra Pratap Singh, born
29th December 1980, educated at Mayo College, Ajmer. Maharaj Kumari
Vijayshree Singh, born 21st April 1984.
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