Sarojaninagar

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Map of Sarojaninagar CD block

Sarojaninagar, also spelled Sarojini Nagar, is a community development block in Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh, India.^[1] It is part of the tehsil of Lucknow and it includes 90 villages.^[1] As of 2011, its population was 224,045, in 40,923 households.^[1]

Sarojaninagar is also the name of two wards of Lucknow, together making up 32 mohallas of the city.^[2]

Demographics[]

As of 2011, the sex ratio of Sarojaninagar block is 903 females for every 1000 males, with 53% of block residents (117,745) being male and 47% (106,300) being female.^[1] The sex ratio in the 0-6 age group was 920.^[1] Members of scheduled castes made up 37.2% of the Sarojaninagar block population, and members of scheduled tribes made up 0.11%.^[1] The literacy rate of Sarojaninagar block in 2011 was 73.0% (81.1% among males and 64.1% among females).^[1]

In 2011, Sarojaninagar block's workforce consisted of 74,661 people (33.3% of the overall block population).^[1] More men (59,508, or 50.5%) were workers than women (15,153, or 14.3%).^[1] A plurality of workers were employed in agriculture — 23.53% were cultivators who owned or leased their own land, and another 26.26% were agricultural labourers who worked someone else's land for wages.^[1] A further 6.25% were household industry workers, and the remaining 43.96% were other workers.^[1]

Demographic history[]

The 1961 census recorded Sarojininagar block as having a total population of 107,880 people (57,375 male and 50,505 female), in 22,327 households and 22,022 physical houses.^[3]

The 1981 census recorded Sarojininagar as the most heavily industrialised of Lucknow district's development blocks, with 56 registered industrial firms.^[4] At the time, it comprised 106 villages, including 94 gram sabhas and 13 nyaya panchayats.^[4]

Land use[]

Sarojaninagar block covers an area of 30,526.9 hectares, of which 58.2% (17,770.8 hectares, not counting fallow land) is farmland as of 2011.^[1] Most of this farmland is irrigated: 16,054.8 hectares, or 90.3% as of the same year.^[1] Irrigation is mostly by tanks or lakes.^[1] Areas under non-agricultural use made up 3,537.4 hectares as of 2011, or about 11.6% of the total land area.^[1] Land considered barren and unsuitable for cultivation covered 1219 hectares.^[1] As of 2011, 1,027 hectares in this block are covered by forests.^[1]

Villages[]

Sarojaninagar block comprises the following 90 villages:^[1]

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