Pinahat (formerly Shreenagar) 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 ...

Agra district Agra () is one of the 75 districts in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The district headquarters is the historical city of Agra. Agra district is a part of Agra division. Geography The district lies in the cultural region of Br ...

in the

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and situated on the Bank of

Chambal River The Chambal River is a tributary of the Yamuna River in Central India, Central and North India, Northern India, and thus forms part of the drainage system of the Ganges. The river flows north-northeast through Madhya Pradesh, running for a brie ...

(the Ghadiyal Sanctuary). It is about 55 km from

Agra Agra ( ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra is the ...

. The distance between Pinahat and Chambal is only 2 km.

Demographics

As of 2011 Indian Census, Pinahat had a total population of 18,709, of which 9,880 were males and 8,829 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 3,189. The total number of literates in Pinahat was 10,595, which constituted 56.6% of the population with male literacy of 63.8% and female literacy of 48.6%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Pinahat was 68.3%, of which male literacy rate was 77.4% and female literacy rate was 58.2%. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population was 5,068 and 3 respectively. Pinahat had 2860 households in 2011. At the 2001 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 ...

, Pinahat had a population of 17,028. Males constituted 53% of the population and females 47%. Pinahat had an average literacy rate of 52%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy was 64%, and female literacy was 39%. In Pinahat, 20% of the population were under 6 years of age.

References

Cities and towns in Agra district {{Agra-geo-stub