Sarai Mir

Town in Uttar Pradesh, India

Sarai Mir Saraimeer
Town
26°01′N 82°55′E / 26.017°N 82.917°E / 26.017; 82.917
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Azamgarh
Government
• Chairman	Wasim Ahmed^[1]
Population (2011)^[2]
• Total	19,055
Language
• Official	Hindi^[3]
• Additional official	Urdu^[3]
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)

Sarai Mir is a town and a nagar panchayat in Azamgarh district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.^[2]

Demographics

As per the 2011 Indian Census, Sarai Mir had a total population of 19,055, of which 9,760 were males and 9,295 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 3,040. The total number of literates in Sarai Mir was 13,151, which constituted 69.0% of the population with male literacy of 72.8% and female literacy of 65.1%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Sarai Mir was 82.1%, of which male literacy rate was 86.6% and female literacy rate was 77.4%. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population was 2,740 and 13 respectively. Sarai Mir had 2,384 households in 2011.^[2]

As of 2001^[update] India census, Saraimir had a population of 15,526. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Saraimir has an average literacy rate of 58%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 64%, and female literacy is 52%. In Saraimir, 21% of the population is under 6 years of age.^[4]

Religion

Religions in Sarai Mir^[5]
Religion			Percent
Muslims			52.0%
Hindus			47.7%
Others			0.3%
Distribution of religions

Islam is followed by a little more than half of the population, while almost all of the remaining population follow Hinduism.^[5]

Education

Madrasatul Islah, a traditional Islamic institution of learning found in 1908

References

^ "UP Nagar Panchayat elections highlights: BJP wins 202 seats, Samajwadi bags 89". Hindustan Times. 14 May 2023. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Census of India: Sarai Mir". censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
^ ^a ^b "52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
^ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 16 June 2004. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
^ ^a ^b "C-1 Population By Religious Community". census.gov.in. Retrieved 11 September 2020.