Jayapur | |
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Village | |
| Sansad Adarsh Gram under the constituency of Indian Prime Minister | |
  Jayapur Location in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India  Jayapur Jayapur (India) | |
| Coordinates: 25°12′59″N 82°49′24″E / 25.2163225°N 82.8232959°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Varanasi |
| Assembly segment | Sevapuri |
| Block | Aaraji Line |
| Gram panchayat code | 74 |
| Government | |
| • Body | Gram panchayat |
| • Gram Pradhan | Narayan Singh Patel |
| • Ex-Gram Pradhan | Durgavati Devi |
| Population | |
| • Total | 4,200 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi and Bhojpuri |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 221305 |
| Telephone code | +91-0542 |
| Sex ratio | 1000/944♂/♀ |
| Avg. annual temperature | 26 °C (79 °F) |
| Avg. summer temperature | 40 °C (104 °F) |
| Avg. winter temperature | 18 °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.