Rajpora, also known as Rajpur, is a Village 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 ...

in the Pulwama district in the

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of the

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n-administered union territory of

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. It is located 43 km away from Srinagar and 299 km away from

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. Rajpora is situated at above the mean sea level.

Demographics

As per census of 2011 population of Rajpora stands at 5,215, with 2,756 males and 2,459 females. Population of people under the age of 6 in Rajpora is 1,169, which is 22.42% of total population of the village. Average Sex Ratio of Rajpora village is 892 and child Sex Ratio of the Rajpora as per census of 2011 is 729. In 2011, literacy rate of Rajpora was 62% in which male literacy stands at 57.67% while female literacy rate stands at 51.61%.

Villages

1. Abhama 2. Achagoza 3. Bamnoo 4. Pachahar 5. Drabgam 6. Rohmoo 7. Kalampora 8. Shadimarg 9. Sangarwani 10. Thokerpora 11. Mirgund 12. Khaigam 13.Rahmoo 14. Bellow

Governance

Under the Panchyati Raj Act, Rajpora is administered by the

Sarpanch A sarpanch ( IAST: ''Sarpañch'' Hindi: ''सरपंच'') or Gram Pradhan or Mukhiya is a decision-maker, elected by the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the Gram Sabha (village government) in India. The Sarp ...

Economy

Out of total population only 3,289 people were employed as of 2011 census. Rest of the population is engaged in orchard business. This village has huge dependency on horticulture and other allied sectors like dairy and bread business, a local bread namely Shirmal is world wide famous of this village, exported to other countries like USA ,Australia, UAE ,and other Gulf countries....

Education

*Government Degree College, Rajpora *Govt Model Higher Secondary Rajpora

Castes

Schedule Tribe (ST) constitutes 0.29% of total population in Rajpora. No Scheduled Caste (SC) live in Rajpora.

References

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