Sarojininagar is also the name of two wards of Lucknow, together making up 32 mohallas of the city.[2]
Demographics
As of 2011, the sex ratio of Sarojininagar block is 903 females for every 1000 males, with 53% of block residents (117,745) being male and 47% (106,300) being female.[1] The sex ratio in the 0-6 age group was 920.[1] Members of scheduled castes made up 37.2% of the Sarojininagar block population, and members of scheduled tribes made up 0.11%.[1] The literacy rate of Sarojininagar block in 2011 was 73.0% (81.1% among males and 64.1% among females).[1]
In 2011, Sarojininagar block's workforce consisted of 74,661 people (33.3% of the overall block population).[1] More men (59,508, or 50.5%) were workers than women (15,153, or 14.3%).[1] A plurality of workers were employed in agriculture — 23.53% were cultivators who owned or leased their own land, and another 26.26% were agricultural labourers who worked someone else's land for wages.[1] A further 6.25% were household industry workers, and the remaining 43.96% were other workers.[1]
Demographic history
The 1961 census recorded Sarojininagar block as having a total population of 107,880 people (57,375 male and 50,505 female), in 22,327 households and 22,022 physical houses.[3]
The 1981 census recorded Sarojininagar as the most heavily industrialised of Lucknow district's development blocks, with 56 registered industrial firms.[4] At the time, it comprised 106 villages, including 94 gram sabhas and 13 nyaya panchayats.[4]
Land use
Sarojininagar block covers an area of 30,526.9 hectares, of which 58.2% (17,770.8 hectares, not counting fallow land) is farmland as of 2011.[1] Most of this farmland is irrigated: 16,054.8 hectares, or 90.3% as of the same year.[1] Irrigation is mostly by tanks or lakes.[1] Areas under non-agricultural use made up 3,537.4 hectares as of 2011, or about 11.6% of the total land area.[1] Land considered barren and unsuitable for cultivation covered 1219 hectares.[1] As of 2011, 1,027 hectares in this block are covered by forests.[1]
Villages
Sarojininagar block comprises the following 90 villages:[1]
