Malkegaon

Malkegaon Malkigāon
Village
Map showing Malkegaon (#754) in Sareni CD block
26°06′33″N 80°52′23″E / 26.109182°N 80.873068°E / 26.109182; 80.873068[1]
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
District	Raebareli
Area [2]
• Total	3.058 km2 (1.181 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	2,951
• Density	970/km2 (2,500/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	UP-35

Malkegaon, also spelled Malkigaon or Malke Gaon, is a village in Sareni block of Rae Bareli district, Uttar Pradesh, India.^[2] It is located 13 km from Lalganj, the tehsil headquarters.^[3] As of 2011, it has a population of 2,951 people, in 504 households.^[2] It has one primary school and no healthcare facilities, and it hosts a weekly haat but not a permanent market.^[2] The haat is held on Wednesdays and Saturdays and mostly involves the sale of cloth and vegetables.^[4] It is the headquarters of a nyaya panchayat, which also includes 13 other villages.^[5]

The 1951 census recorded Malkegaon (as "Malke Gaon") as comprising 4 hamlets, with a total population of 1,240 people (589 male and 651 female), in 233 households and 200 physical houses.^[6] The area of the village was given as 737 acres.^[6] 53 residents were literate, 18 male and 35 female.^[6] The village was listed as belonging to the pargana of Sareni and the thana of Sareni.^[6]

The 1961 census recorded Malkegaon as comprising 3 hamlets, with a total population of 1,296 people (627 male and 669 female), in 232 households and 213 physical houses.^[4] The area of the village was given as 737 acres and it had a post office and medical practitioner at that point.^[4] Average attendance of the village haat was about 100 people then.^[4]

The 1981 census recorded Malkegaon as having a population of 1,702 people, in 303 households, and having an area of 309.55 hectares.^[3] The main staple foods were given as wheat and rice.^[3]

The 1991 census recorded Malkegaon (as "Malke Gaon") as having a total population of 2,232 people (1,140 male and 1,092 female), in 354 households and 352 physical houses.^[5] The area of the village was listed as 305 hectares.^[5] Members of the 0-6 age group numbered 438, or 20% of the total; this group was 54% male (235) and 46% female (203).^[5] Members of scheduled castes made up 32% of the village's population, while no members of scheduled tribes were recorded.^[5] The literacy rate of the village was 39% (626 men and 249 women).^[5] 758 people were classified as main workers (578 men and 180 women), while 1 person was classified as a marginal worker (a woman); the remaining 1,473 residents were non-workers.^[5] The breakdown of main workers by employment category was as follows: 303 cultivators (i.e. people who owned or leased their own land); 194 agricultural labourers (i.e. people who worked someone else's land in return for payment); 2 workers in livestock, forestry, fishing, hunting, plantations, orchards, etc.; 7 in mining and quarrying; 0 household industry workers; 69 workers employed in other manufacturing, processing, service, and repair roles; 2 construction workers; 47 employed in trade and commerce; 11 employed in transport, storage, and communications; and 123 in other services.^[5]

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