Raebareli district


Raebareli district also spelled Rae Bareli district, is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The city of Raebareli is the district headquarters. The district is part of Lucknow Division.

Geography

The district had an area of 4,609 km2. The principal rivers of the district are the Ganges and the Sai: the former skirts it for 54 miles near Dalmau and is everywhere navigable for boats of 40 tons; the latter traverses it from N.W. to S.E. The principal crops are rice, pulse, wheat, barley, millet, and poppy. Rae Bareli town is connected with Lucknow by a branch of the Oudh and Rohilkhand railway, which in 1898 was extended to Benares.

Economy

In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Raebareli one of the country's 250 most backward districts. It is one of the 34 districts in Uttar Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme.
Raebareli has also been nominated by the state government for receiving aid through central government's Smart Cities in India Programme.
Powerplant at Unchahar

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Raebareli district has a population of 3,405,559, roughly equal to the nation of Panama or the US state of Connecticut. This gives it a ranking of 97th in India. The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 18.51%. Rae Bareli has a sex ratio of 941 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 69.04%.

Languages

At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 98.31% of the population in the district spoke Hindi and 1.60% Urdu as their first language.
Languages spoken in the district include Awadhi, a vernacular in the Hindi continuum spoken by over 38 million people, mainly in the Awadh region.

Transportation

Raebareli is on the route of National Highway 30, between Lucknow and Allahabad. Ring Road Raebareli is an outer bypass road and crosses the Sharda River.
Closest major airport to Raebareli is in Lucknow at about 80 km distance. Other major airport is in Allahabad at 120 km distance.
A rail line is being built from Raebareli to Akbarganj, on the Northern Railways network.