Pipraich
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Pipraich is a town and a nagar panchayat
Nagar Panchayat
A nagar palika or nagar panchayat is a form of an urban political unit in India comparable to a municipality.An urban centre with more than 30,000 and less than 100,000 inhabitants is classified as a nagar panchayat....

 in Gorakhpur district
Gorakhpur District
Gorakhpur district is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in India. Gorakhpur is the administrative headquarters of the district.-History:The district was ceded by the Nawab of Awadh to the British East India Company in 1801. With this cession, Gorakhpur was raised to the status of a district. The...

 in the India
India
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n state
States and territories of India
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 of Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh abbreviation U.P. , is a state located in the northern part of India. With a population of over 200 million people, it is India's most populous state, as well as the world's most populous sub-national entity...

. It is well known native place
of reputed "Sainthwar" kshatriya
Kshatriya
*For the Bollywood film of the same name see Kshatriya Kshatriya or Kashtriya, meaning warrior, is one of the four varnas in Hinduism...

 caste which is sangha of ancient democratic kshatriya clans like Malla
Malla (India)
Malla was one of the solasa mahajanapadas of ancient India mentioned in the Anguttara Nikaya. It was named after the ruling clan of the same name. The Mahabharata mentions the territory as the Mallarashtra . The Malla mahajanapada was situated north of Magadha. It was a small mahajanapada...

, Lichchhavis, Shakya
Shakya
Shakya was an ancient janapada of India in the 1st millennium BCE. In Buddhist texts the Shakyas, the inhabitants of Shakya janapada, are mentioned as a clan of Gotama gotra....

, Koliya etc. and derive their name from Santhagara
Santhagara
Santhagara is a pali word derived from combination of Santha or Sanstha in Sanskrit and Agara and was used for the general assembly hall of a particular Ga%E1%B9%87a_sangha kshatriya clan of ancient northern India where the old and younger of the same clan meets to decide on the general and state...

.The prominent villages includes Govindpur,Gaura, Bardagaon, Hemchhapar, Baraipur, Bela, Jagdishpur, Mahuawa etc.The most educated villages like Govindpur and Gaura have produced numerous educated people in past which ranges from engineers,doctors,lawyers,lecturers,Govt Employees working in IAF & Army & other professionals. The Govindpur and Gaura village has produced engineers who are working in IT companies like IBM, AMDOCS, Mahindra Satyam, HSBC, Hewitt Assocites,SAMSUNG, WNS, ABB Automation & ORACLE. Girls in Govindpur and Gaura are also one step ahead compared to all other villages.The girls are very well educated in many fields like MBBS, Engineering, M.Sc, B.Ed & Law.Another village Khurhuriya is 1.5 km ahead from Pipraich in east. Masurity of Schedule caste in khurhuriya.Many Engineers and doctors produced by this village.It is well connected by rail & road. The Co-operative Inter College is located in the heart of town.
It have 03 cinema halls.
recently Rajmati nishad wife of ex mla Jamuna Nishad won the bypoll of pipraich assembly seat.this election was necessitated due to death of BSP MLA Jamuna nishad in road accident in nov last year.

Geography

Pipraich is located at 26.83°N 83.53°E. It has an average elevation of 71 metres (232 feet).

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...

, Pipraich had a population of 14,829. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Pipraich has an average literacy rate of 61%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 70%, and female literacy is 51%. In Pipraich, 15% of the population is under 6 years of age.
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