For the Padampur tehsil see Padampur tehsil

Padampur tehsil

Padampur tehsil is one of the 9 tehsils of Ganganagar district.It is located in northern area of the district. Padampur city is the headquarter of tehsil.It 's north border touches Ganganagar tehsil.It 's small part borders in east with Sadulshahar Tehsil and with Hanumangarh district.The...

 :for the village in Nepal see Padampur, Nepal

Padampur, Nepal

Padampur is a village development committee in Chitwan District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 8884 people living in 1559 individual households....

Padampur (in Hindi: पदमपुर ) is a city and a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in Ganganagar district

Ganganagar district

Ganganagar District is a northern most district of Rajasthan state in western India. The town of Sri Ganganagar is the district headquarters.-History:...

 in the India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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States and territories of India

India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.-List of states and territories:...

 of Rajasthan

Rajasthan

Rājasthān the land of Rajasthanis, , is the largest state of the Republic of India by area. It is located in the northwest of India. It encompasses most of the area of the large, inhospitable Great Indian Desert , which has an edge paralleling the Sutlej-Indus river valley along its border with...

.Most of the people staying in Padampur are refugees who had come from Pakistan in and after 1947 as it is very near to the border. Mostly Punjabis are staying in Padampur.

Geography

Padampur is located at 29.68°N 73.62°E. It has an average elevation of 165 metres (541 feet).
padampur is located in northen-western part of Ganganagar district.
There is no direct railway link to this destination.The nearby main railway station is Sriganganagar.
There is 132 KV Grid substation which is being upgraded to 220 KV GSS.

Demographics

India census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Padampur had a population of 16,958. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Padampur has an average literacy rate of 64%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 70%,