Aurai is a town and a

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

Bhadohi district Bhadohi District is a District of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The city of Gyanpur is the district headquarters. Bhadohi is one of largest centres of Carpet Industries in India and is worldwide known as 'Carpet City of India'. Carpet ...

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

state, India. It is a newly created

which came into inception in the year 2008. It is 23 km from its district headquarter of City

Gyanpur Gyanpur is a town and a nagar panchayat in Bhadohi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of Bhadohi district. Geography Gyanpur is located at . It has an average elevation of 81 metres (265&nb ...

and 235 km from the state capital of

Lucknow Lucknow (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and it is also the second largest urban agglomeration in Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and divisio ...

. Aurai is also a legislative assembly seat for

Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly The Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly (Hindi: ''Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Uttar Pradesh. There are 403 seats in the house filled by direct election using a single-member first-past-the- ...

(also known as Vidhan Sabha). Aurai is also a

Panchayat Samiti Panchayat samiti is a rural local government (panchayat) body at the intermediate tehsil (taluka/mandal) level in India. It works for the villages of the tehsil that together are called a development block. It has been said to be the "panchayat ...

(District Sub-Division).

Aurai Tehsil

Aurai Tehsil is one of the three tehsils in the District of

Bhadohi Bhadohi is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is home to the largest hand-knotted carpet weaving industry hub in South Asia. The city is 45 km west of Varanasi and 82 km east of Allahabad. Demographics As of 2011 In ...

. It has been newly created after 2001 Census by transferring the villages of Tahsil Bhadohi and Tahsil Gyanpur. It consists of 355 villages under its division. It has a population of 4,41,427. The sex ratio in Tehsil Aurai is 941 females per 1,000 males. It was created through the Gazette Notification dated 12 June, 2001. It came into existence through the efforts of then MLA (Member of Legislative Assembly) and minister Rangnath Mishra.

Aurai Block

Aurai block is one of the six blocks (

) in the District

. It consists of 286 villages. It is the most populous block with the population of 3,13,365. The sex ratio in block Aurai is 938 females per 1,000 males.

Aurai Legislative Assembly Seat

Aurai is one of the three Legislative Assembly seat in the

. It is one of five assembly constituencies in the Bhadohi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 394 amongst 403 constituencies. For more refer to - Aurai, Uttar Pradesh Assembly constituency.

References

{{Bhadohi district Bhadohi district Tehsils of Uttar Pradesh