Ekdil is a town and a
nagar panchayat
A nagar panchayat () or town panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,00 ...
in
Etawah district
Etawah district is one of the Districts of Uttar Pradesh, districts in the western portion of Uttar Pradesh States and territories of India, state of India. Etawah town is the district headquarters. The district covers an area of 2311 km. ...
in the state of
Uttar Pradesh
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,
India
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. This place was established by the Ekdil Khan. It was earlier known as Sarai Rupa. In the 17th century, a eunuch named Ekdil Khan came here, and built a new sarai, which he named Ekdil. At the Time of Mahabharata, Present Day Ekdil was part of Ishtikapuri. It is 9 kilometers from Etawah). It has a small railway station on the north side, 3 kilometers town.It lies between Yamuna At its south around 10km and Ganga river at its North around 50km. It has majority population of 79% of Hindus and compromise approx 21% of Muslims.
In Ekdil Vegetable Market usually occurs on Every Tuesday and Saturday. It is surrounded with around 17 Village which makes it centre to buy daily use Goods Hub for nearby villagers.At Ekdil You may buy Some Good street food, Daily uses Goods and clothes.
CONNECTIVITY
Ekdil is well connected by Road via NH 2. It lies on northern side of
NH 2. One can easily travel for Kanpur, Agra, Delhi, Lucknow via daily UPSRTC Buses. It is connected with
EtawahJunction for larger interstate Rail Connectivity. Though it also has a small Railway station of its own but very few train have stoppage here.
•, इकदिल बनेगा हिंदू राष्ट्र , •
• , जय श्री राम , •
Demographics
India
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
, Ekdil had a population of 11310.
Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Ekdil has an average literacy rate of 55%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 63%, and female literacy is 46%. In Ekdil, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Nearby places
* Bakewar, 12 km
* Bharthana, 14 km
* Ekdil, 0 km
* Etawah, 9 km
* Jaswantnagar, 28 km
* Lakhna, 16 km
* Saifai, 32 km
Trains
* 64153 CNB-ETW MEMU 09:12 09:13 Daily MEMU
* 64156 ETW-CNB MEMU 16:34 16:35 Daily MEMU
* 64161 PHD-SKB MEMU 21:10 21:11 Daily MEMU
* 64164 SKB-PHD MEMU 06:52 06:53 Daily MEMU
* 64587 CNB-TDL MEMU 17:16 17:17 Daily MEMU
* 64588 TDL-CNB MEMU 09:08 09:09 Daily MEMU
Nearest airports
* Gwalior Airport (99.8 kilometers)
* Kanpur Airport (131.0 kilometers)
* Lucknow Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport (178.5 kilometers)
* Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport (282.2 kilometers)
* Agra Airport (approximately 120 km)
References
Ekdil gets first rank in Swachh Sarvekshan 2022 among 437 district of North India
Cities and towns in Etawah district
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