Jayapur

Jayapur
Village
Sansad Adarsh Gram under the constituency of Indian Prime Minister
Jayapur is located in Uttar Pradesh
Jayapur
Jayapur
Location in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Jayapur is located in India
Jayapur
Jayapur
Jayapur (India)
Coordinates: 25°12′59″N 82°49′24″E / 25.2163225°N 82.8232959°E / 25.2163225; 82.8232959
Country India
StateUttar Pradesh
DistrictVaranasi
Assembly segmentSevapuri
BlockAaraji Line
Gram panchayat code74
Government
 • BodyGram panchayat
 • Gram PradhanNarayan Singh Patel
 • Ex-Gram PradhanDurgavati Devi
Population
 • Total4,200
Languages
 • OfficialHindi and Bhojpuri
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN
221305
Telephone code+91-0542
Sex ratio1000/944/
Avg. annual temperature26 °C (79 °F)
Avg. summer temperature40 °C (104 °F)
Avg. winter temperature18 °C (64 °F)

Jayapur is a village in Varanasi tehsil, Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is about 28 km from the Varanasi cantt railway station and about 7 km from the Rajatalab railway station in the Sevapuri assembly segment and Aaraji Line Block. This place is situated at the border of the Varanasi District and Mirzapur District. Jayapur is surrounded by Arajiline Tehsil towards the east and Shikhar Tehsil towards the south.

The nearby villages to Jayapur are Chandapur (1 km), Panchai (1 km), Jakhini (3 km), Singhai (1 km), Narsara (2 km), Marui (2 km), Gotva (1 km), and Jamua (5 km).

The village comes under the constituency of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who adopted the village on 7 November 2014 under the Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana ("MP's model village scheme").[1] The village was already adopted by the Rashtriya SwayamSevak Sangh (RSS) under its ideal village scheme in 2002.

  1. ^ "Modi in Varanasi says Jayapur has adopted me, not the other way around".