| Voice of Etawah : Brijraj
Kishor
Etawah District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 2288.2 Km2
Population in Etawah (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 1,579,160
Male : 845,893
Female : 733,267
Under 6 population
Total : 220,220
Male : 117,748
Female : 102,472
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 24548
In seeing : 9913
In speech : 1557
In hearing : 1203
In movement : 9707
Mental : 2168
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 323
Sex Ratio Rank : 60
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : A
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 -2006)
Disability : 378 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 206 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About Etawah District
Boundaries and Area
The district of Etawah lies in the southwestern portion of Uttar
Pradesh 26° 47" north latitude and 72° 20" east longitude and forms
a part of the Kanpur Division. In shape it is a parallelogram with
a length from north to south 70 Km. and East to west 66 Km. on one
side and 24 Km. on the other side. It is bounded on the north by
the districts of Farrukhabad and Mainpuri, while the small extent
of western border adjoins tahsil Bah of the Agra district. The eastern
frontier marches with the district of Auraiya, and along the south
lie Jalaun and the district of Gwalior, the division line being,
except for a short distance, the Chambal and Yamuna rivers. The
total area in 1999 is calculated to be 2434 Km.
Climate
Rainfall The average annual rainfall in the district is 792
mm and in the year 1998 Zila Sankhikiya Patrika it is given to be
640 mm. About 85% of the annual normal rainfall in the district
is received during the south west mansoon months from June to September,
August being the rainiest month. Temperature After February there
is a steady increase in temperature. May is generally the hottest
month with the mean daily maximum temperature at about 42 °C and
the mean daily minimum at about 26 °C. The nights are warmer in
June than in May.
The heat in the summer is intense and the hot, dry
and dust-laden westerly winds which are common in the hot season
make the weather severely trying. In this season maximum temperatures
on individual days sometimes reach 46 °C or over. With the onset
of the south-west mansoon over the district by about the third week
of June there is appreciable drop in the day temperature and the
weather becomes more bearable. But the nights still continue to
be as warm as in the latter part of the summer. With the with drawl
of the mansoon by about the end of September there is a slight increase
in the day temperature. There is a rapid drop in the night temperature
after the with drawl of the mansoon. After November both day and
night temperatures decrease rapidly till January, which is usually
the coldest month with the mean daily maximum temperature about
23 °C and the mean daily minimum temperature at about 8 °C. During
the cold season the district as affected by cold waves and fog and
the minimum temperature occasionally goes down to 3 °C.
Humidity During the rainy season the relative humidity
is generally high being over 70%. Thereafter the humidity decreases
and by summer which is the driest part of the year the relative
humidities in the afternoons become less than 30%. Winds Winds are
generally light and are mostly from directions between south-west
and north-west. In May, the south-west mansoon season winds on many
days blows also from directions between north-east and south-east.
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