Rithora

Rithora is a town and a nagar panchayat in Bareilly Tehsil of Bareilly district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is sited at a distance of 15 km away from its district cum Tehsil Headquarters Bareilly, 269 km away from its state capital Lucknow and 263 km away from the national capital Delhi. People of all religions and communities reside in the city and they mostly speak Hindi. Rithora is home to a total population of 17,186, as per the 2011¹ population census. The density of population is recorded as 1,718.6 people¹ per km 2 in an area of 10 km 2 . Agriculture and agro-based industries are the main occupations of the locals in the town.

Rithora is a town and a nagar panchayat in Bareilly Tehsil of Bareilly district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is sited at a distance of 15 km away from its district cum Tehsil Headquarters Bareilly, 269 km away from its state capital Lucknow and 263 km away from the national capital Delhi. People of all religions and communities reside in the city and they mostly speak Hindi. Rithora is home to a total population of 17,186, as per the 2011 population census. The density of population is recorded as 1,718.6 people per km 2 in an area of 10 km 2 . Agriculture and agro-based industries are the main occupations of the locals in the town.

Education

Darbari Lal Sharma Inter College, Rithora

Administration

Rithora constitutes a nagar panchayat with twelve wards for which elections are conducted once in five years to elect twelve ward members to the Rithora Nagar Panchayat to form the local body in the city. The city operates within Bareilly administrative division of Uttar Pradesh state administration. Rithora comes under Bareilly sub district or tehsil in its district which is one of the six tehsils in Bareilly district apart from Aonla, Mirganj, Faridpur, Baheri and Nawabganj. Bareilly is the district Headquarters and Tehsil Headquarters of Rithora Nagar Panchayat. Rithora comes within Bareilly Lok Sabha constituency and the current MP of the constituency is Shri Santhosh Kumar Gangwar elected to Indian Parliament in the year 2014.

Demographics

Rithora is a Nagar Panchayat town in district of Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh. It is divided into twelve wards for which elections are held every five years. The Rithora Nagar Panchayat has population of 17,186 of which 9,114 are males while 8,072 are females as per report released by Census India 2011. The population of children aged 0-6 is 2,651, which is 15.43% of total population of Rithora (NP). In Rithora Nagar Panchayat, the female sex ratio is 886, compared to a state average of 912. Moreover, the child sex ratio is around 895, as compared to the Uttar Pradesh state average of 902. The literacy rate in Rithora is 44.08%, which is lower than the state average of 67.68%. In Rithora, male literacy is around 53.79% while the female literacy rate is 33.09%. Rithora Nagar Panchayat has total administration over 2,830 houses, to which it supplies basic amenities such as water and sewerage. It is also authorized to build roads within Nagar Panchayat limits and to impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction.

Sources

census data

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