Ballia
Ballia district profile
Ballia (area: 3,168 sq km) is one of the districts covered by PACS in Uttar Pradesh. The district is a part of Azamgarh division, situated in eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, bordering the state of Bihar. It is an irregularly shaped tract extending westward from the confluence of the Ganga and the Ghaghra, the former separating it from Bihar in the south and the latter from Deoria and Bihar in the north and east respectively. The boundary between Ballia and Bihar is determined by the deep streams of these two rivers.
Ballia is bordered on the west by Azamgarh, on the north by Deoria, on the northeast and southeast by Bihar, and on the southwest by Ghazipur. Ballia city is the district headquarters.
Ballia is a level plain, intersected by numerous streams. Though there are no hills, the surface is varied because of high river banks and the gentle slope towards the Ganga, the Ghaghra and the Saryu rivers.
There are three main rivers in the district: the Ghaghra, the Ganga and the Saryu.
Around 16% of the population belongs to the scheduled castes. Muslims constitute around 7% of the population.
| No | Indicator | Data |
| 1 | Population | |
| Persons | 2,761,620 | |
| Male | 1,413,774 | |
| Female | 1,347,846 | |
| Children (0 to 4 years) | 330,380 | |
| Decadal growth (1991-2001) | 21.67% | |
| Rural | 2,491,676 (90.23%) | |
| Urban | 269,944 (9.77%) | |
| Sex ratio (females per 1,000 males) | 953 | |
| Household size (per household) | 7 | |
| SC population | 454,647 (16.46%) | |
| ST population | 273 (0.01%) | |
| 2 | Literacy rate | |
| Persons | 57.86 | |
| Male | 71.91 | |
| Female | 43.16 | |
| 3 | Religious groups (largest three) | |
| Hindus | 2,572,597 | |
| Muslims | 181,553 | |
| Christians | 2,913 | |
| 4 | Important towns (largest three) | |
| Ballia | 101,465 | |
| Rasra | 29,238 | |
| Reoti | 22,082 | |
| 5 | Amenities in villages | |
| Total inhabited villages | 1,830 | |
| Villages with: | ||
| Safe drinking water | 1,793 | |
| Electricity (domestic) | 682 | |
| Primary schools | 1,056 | |
| Medical facility | 457 | |
| Paved approach road | 1,070 | |
| 6 | Health | |
| Pregnant women* who received at least three or more antenatal checkups | 42.3% | |
| Pregnant women* who received at least one TT injection | 82.7% | |
| Women* who had institutional delivery | 34.5% | |
| Children aged 12-23 months who were fully immunised** | 48.5% | |
| Children aged 12-23 months who received at least one dose of Vitamin A | 24.9% | |
| 7 | Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme | |
| Households issued job cards# | 136,128 | |
| Cumulative person days employment generated# | 1,838,408 | |
| Households completed 100 days employment# | 800 | |
Sources:
*Women aged 15-49 who had their last live/still birth after December 31, 2003
** BCG, three injections of DPT, three doses of polio (excluding Polio 0) and measles
# As on September 10, 2010
Indicator groups 1-5: Basic Data Sheet, Census of India 2001 http://censusindia.gov.in/Dist_File/datasheet-0963.pdf
Indicator group 6: Tables 4.6, 4.9 and 5.7 in District Level Household and Facility Survey (DLHS-3), 2007-08: India. Uttar Pradesh. International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, 2010; funded by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
Indicator group 7: State-wise NREGA Implementation Status Report in http://nrega.nic.in viewed September 3, 2010
