Jayapur is a village in Varanasi tehsil,

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. It is about 28 km from the Varanasi cantt railway station and about 7 km from the Rajatalab railway station in the Sevapuri assembly segment and Aaraji Line Block. This place is situated at the border of the Varanasi District and Mirzapur District. Jayapur is surrounded by Arajiline Tehsil towards the east and Shikhar Tehsil towards the south. The nearby villages to Jayapur are Chandapur (1 km), Panchai (1 km), Jakhini (3 km), Singhai (1 km), Narsara (2 km), Marui (2 km), Gotva (1 km), and Jamua (5 km). The village comes under the constituency of Indian Prime Minister

Narendra Modi Narendra Damodardas Modi (; born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. Modi was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament from ...

, who adopted the village on 7 November 2014 under the

Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana ( hi, सांसद आदर्श ग्राम योजना , abbr.: SAGY) is a rural development programme broadly focusing upon the development in the villages which includes social development, cultural dev ...

(" MP's model village scheme"). The village was already adopted by the Rashtriya SwayamSevak Sangh (RSS) under its ideal village scheme in 2002.

History

According to the ancestors of this village, Jayapur is nearly 400 years old. According to BHU's political science department's HoD, Prof KK Mishra, in the 17th century, when the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was said to be on a temple-demolition spree, his soldiers caught attention of an old temple of Lord Hanuman in the village.

Population

The total population of this village is around 4200 and there are a total of 401 houses.

Demographics

The literacy rate of this village is 76.36 per cent (among men, 89.12 per cent; among women, 61.27 per cent).

Divisions

There are three villages in Jayapaur panchayat: Jayapur, Manikpur and Musepur.

Languages

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

and

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri (;Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries
, Oxford U ...

are spoken in Jayapur village and written in

Devanagari Devanagari ( ; , , Sanskrit pronunciation: ), also called Nagari (),Kathleen Kuiper (2010), The Culture of India, New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, , page 83 is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental syste ...

scripts.

References

External links

Official website of Adarsh Gram Jayapur - Prime Minister's adopted village
{{Uttar Pradesh Villages in Varanasi district