Kant 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 ...
of
Shahjahanpur district
Shahjahanpur is a district of Uttar Pradesh India. It is a part of Bareilly division. It was established in 1813 by the British Government. Previously it was a part of district Bareilly. Geographically the main town is Shahjahanpur, which is i ...
in the Indian
state
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* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
**Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
**Nation state, a ...
of
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...
.
Geography
Kant is located at . It has an average elevation of 485 metres (147 feet).
Kant was headquarters of British academy in 1940. It is the most growing town of Shahjahanpur just 10 km away from the main Shahjahanpur city. One freedom fighter belongs to Kant.
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 ...
, Kant had a population of 27,137. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Kant has an average literacy rate of 87%, higher than the national average of 74%: male literacy is 88%, and female literacy is 86%. In Kant, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Educational institutions
The following institutions
are running in the town area of Kant to promote education level of the public:
* Govt Degree College established in 2016 under central govt scheme RUSA.
* Maan Sharde Shiksha Mandir Inter College Kant, Shahjahanpur,
* Junior high school, Junior High School, (Old), Kant, Shahjahanpur.
* Junior High School (New), Patti Mohalla, Kant, Shahjahanpur.
* Vinoba Bhave Inter College, Kant, Shahjahanpur.
* Government, Rajkeey Inter college, Kant, Shahjahanpur.
* Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Kant, Shahjahanpur.
* Oxford
public school, Kant, Shahjahanpur.
* Islamiya schoolT
* Tarawati Inter College, Kamalnayanpur (kant)
* Board of Secondary Education Kant Shahjahanpur U.P.
References
Cities and towns in Shahjahanpur district
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