| Voice of Meerut : Anita
Rana
Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh faces the following challenges.
Poverty level has increased and so has the population of slum dwellers.
Low literacy rate, no sanitation which later leads to many health
issues are major challenges among the slum dwellers in the district.
Agriculture is the main occupation in the district. Farmers have
used lot of pesticide for their crops, which is harmful to the environment
and health too.
Groundwater levels have gone down.
Meerut District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 2521.6 Km2
Population : 2997361
Male Population : 1601578
Female Population : 1395783
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 44092
In seeing : 16109
In speech : 3240
In hearing : 2066
In movement : 17826
Mental : 4851
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : Does not figure in list of 447 backward
districts
Sex Ratio Rank : 88
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 195 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : NA
Minority : Yes
Brief About Meerut District
The district of Meerut (which forms part of the
revenue division of the same name) is named after its headquarters
city and is said to be associated with earliest traditions of the
Hindus according to which Maya, the father-in-law of Ravana, founded
this place which has, therefore, been call Maidant-ka-Khera. According
to another version Maya, a distinguished architect, got from king
Yudhishther the land on which the city of Meerut now stands and
he called this place Mayrashtra, a name which in course of time
became shortened to Meerut. Tradition are so has it that the district
formed part of the dominions of Mahipal, king of Indraprashta and
the word Meerut is associated with his name.
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