Ballia district With Talukas: Ballia district is one of the districts of
Uttar Pradesh state, India.
Main occupation is agriculture. Ballia City is district
headquarters and commercial market of this district. There are
six tehsils (talukas) in this district. Though Ballia's core
occupation is agriculture but some small industries also exists
here. Maniar is known for its bindi industry. The city is situated
140 km from Varanasi. Bhojpuri, kind of Hindi, is the primary
local language. Due to its significant contribution to the Indian
independence movement, Ballia is also known as Bagi
Ballia ("Rebel Ballia"). According to locals, the name Ballia was
derived from the name of the sage Valmiki, the
celebrated Hindu poet and the author of Ramayana. Another
belief about the origin of the name is that it refers to the sandy
quality of the soil, locally known as "Ballua" ('balu' meaning
sand).
Ballia district
Ballia district is the easternmost part of the Uttar Pradesh state
and borders on Bihar State. It comprises an irregularly shaped
tract from the Ganga and the Ghaghra River, 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. It is bounded in the west by Mau, in the north
by Deoria, in the north-east and south-east by Bihar and on the
south-west by Ghazipur. According to the 2011 census, Ballia
district has a population of 3,223,642. Ballia has a sex ratio of
933 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of
73.82%. Ballia has a major railway station by the same name
Ballia. Ballia is well connected to Varanasi and Gorakhpur by
both road and rail, and to Patna by road. Dadri Mela is the
second largest cattle fair of India, which is held 5 km from Ballia
town, near NH 31 and 3 km from the bus station of Ballia
city. The fair starts with people taking a holy dip in the
river Ganga on the full moon of Kartik Poornima (approximately
in the month of October–November). This fair is held annually
in the honor of Dardar Muni, the disciple of Maharishi Bhrigu.
Talukas in Ballia district
| Bairia |
Ballia |
| Bansdih |
Belthara Road |
| Rasra |
Sikanderpur |
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