Sarai Mir

Sarai Mir Saraimeer
Town
Sarai Mir Location in Uttar Pradesh, India Show map of Uttar Pradesh Sarai Mir Sarai Mir (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 26°01′N82°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

1. "UP Nagar Panchayat elections highlights: BJP wins 202 seats, Samajwadi bags 89". Hindustan Times. 14 May 2023. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
2. "Census of India: Sarai Mir". censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
3. "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.
4. "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.
5. "C-1 Population By Religious Community". census.gov.in. Retrieved 11 September 2020.