Bahraich
Bahraich | |
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City | |
UTC+5:30 (IST) | |
PIN | 271801 |
Telephone code | +91 05252 |
Vehicle registration | UP-40 |
Sex Ratio | 892 ♂/♀ |
Website | bahraichnpp |
Bahraich is a city and a
Geography and climate
It has an average elevation of 126 metres (413 feet). Bahraich has a warm humid subtropical climate with hot summers from April to July. The rainy season is from July to mid-September when Bahraich gets an average rainfall from the south-west monsoon winds, and occasionally frontal rainfall will occur in January. In winter the maximum temperature is around 25 °C (77 °F) and the minimum is in the −1 to 7 °C (30 to 45 °F) range. Fog is quite common from late December to late January. Summers are extremely hot with temperatures rising to the 40 to 47 °C (104 to 117 °F) range, the average highs being in the high of 30s (degree Celsius). Average annual rainfall is 1,900 centimetres (750 inches) (approx).[3]
Climate data for Bahraich (1981–2010, extremes 1901–2012) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 29.1 (84.4) |
35.2 (95.4) |
41.0 (105.8) |
44.6 (112.3) |
45.8 (114.4) |
47.6 (117.7) |
44.4 (111.9) |
39.2 (102.6) |
39.4 (102.9) |
38.6 (101.5) |
35.2 (95.4) |
31.7 (89.1) |
47.6 (117.7) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 21.6 (70.9) |
26.1 (79.0) |
32.1 (89.8) |
37.3 (99.1) |
37.9 (100.2) |
36.8 (98.2) |
33.2 (91.8) |
32.9 (91.2) |
32.8 (91.0) |
32.3 (90.1) |
29.0 (84.2) |
24.3 (75.7) |
31.4 (88.5) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 9.1 (48.4) |
11.8 (53.2) |
16.3 (61.3) |
21.6 (70.9) |
25.2 (77.4) |
26.9 (80.4) |
26.6 (79.9) |
26.5 (79.7) |
25.3 (77.5) |
21.1 (70.0) |
15.1 (59.2) |
10.6 (51.1) |
19.7 (67.5) |
Record low °C (°F) | 0.6 (33.1) |
0.6 (33.1) |
5.6 (42.1) |
11.1 (52.0) |
13.5 (56.3) |
18.3 (64.9) |
18.7 (65.7) |
21.1 (70.0) |
18.3 (64.9) |
12.2 (54.0) |
5.0 (41.0) |
1.7 (35.1) |
0.6 (33.1) |
Average rainfall mm (inches) | 20.9 (0.82) |
18.6 (0.73) |
12.0 (0.47) |
11.9 (0.47) |
51.4 (2.02) |
189.6 (7.46) |
332.6 (13.09) |
284.9 (11.22) |
245.3 (9.66) |
57.3 (2.26) |
4.5 (0.18) |
11.7 (0.46) |
1,240.7 (48.85) |
Average rainy days | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 3.2 | 7.3 | 12.3 | 12.0 | 8.4 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 52.0 |
Average relative humidity (%) (at 17:30 IST )
|
69 | 56 | 40 | 29 | 38 | 53 | 73 | 76 | 75 | 66 | 65 | 70 | 59 |
Source: India Meteorological Department[4][5] |
Demographics
As of
Religion
Majority of the population of Bahraich are
Politics
Bahraich is divided into two
There are seven
- Bahraich – Anupama Jaiswal(BJP)
- Matera – Mariya Shah (Samajwadi Party)
- Mahasi– Sureshwar Singh (BJP)
- Kaiserganj – Anand Kumar (Samajwadi Party)
- Balha– Saroj Sonkar (BJP)
- Payagpur– Subhash Tripathi (BJP)
- Nanpara– Madhuri Verma (BJP)
Transportation
Roads
Bahraich is well connected with other districts of
Railways
Bahraich railway station is a main railway station in Bahraich district, Uttar Pradesh. Its code is BRK. It serves Bahraich city. The station consists of 3 platforms, two for broad gauge and one for meter gauge. Bahraich to Jarwal Road is a Broad gauge station 55 kilometres (34 miles) from district headquarters and lies on Delhi–Barauni line.[7] Plans for converting the Bahraich – Gonda tracks to broad-gauge have been in talks since October 2018.[8][9] It is complete as of July 2020, but due to lack of electrification, only diesel locomotives are run in these tracks. According to the railway board, ₹327.32 crore is to be invested to electrify the whole Bahraich-Gonda-Balrampur-Gorakhpur line, with expected completion by the year 2021.[10]
Media
Bahraich has an All India Radio relay station known as Akashvani Bahraich. It broadcasts on FM frequencies @ 100.1 .
Notable people
- Farhat Ehsas – Urdu poet
- Syed Zafar Mahmood- Indian Civil-Servant and former 'Officer on Special Duty' for the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh
- Tahir Mahmood – former Chairman, National Minorities Commission
- Mahfoozur Rahman Nami – Indian Muslim scholar, politician and an author
- Meena Shah - national badminton champion of India. recipient of the Padma Shri and the Arjuna award
- Waqar Ahmad Shah – former speaker of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly and former cabinet minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh
- Yasar Shah – Former cabinet minister in the Government of Uttar Pradesh
- HinduKing
- Mohsin Zaidi – Urdu poet
References
- ^ a b "Census of India: Bahraich". www.censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
- ^ 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 20 December 2018.
- ^ "District Industrial Profile of Bahraich district" (PDF). MSME-Development Institute -Allahabad, Government of India Ministry of MSME. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
- ^ "Station: Bahraich Climatological Table 1981–2010" (PDF). Climatological Normals 1981–2010. India Meteorological Department. January 2015. pp. 65–66. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ^ "Extremes of Temperature & Rainfall for Indian Stations (Up to 2012)" (PDF). India Meteorological Department. December 2016. p. M212. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ^ a b "C-1 Population By Religious Community - Uttar Pradesh". censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 10 July 2022.
- ^ "बहराइच से जरवलरोड तक बिछे रेल लाइन" (in Hindi). 27 October 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
- ^ "नवरात्र में बहराइच से गोंडा के बीच चल सकती ट्रेन". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). 8 October 2018. Retrieved 20 December 2018.
- ^ "Broad gauge rail line from Bahraich to Burhwal | Allahabad News – Times of India". The Times of India. 14 February 2009. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
- ^ "327 करोड़ से बहराइच व गोरखपुर रेल लाइन का होगा विद्युतीकरण". Amar Ujala (in Hindi). 24 July 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.