15-512: [REDACTED] Look up sa:ललितपुर in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lalitpur may refer to: Lalitpur, India , a town in Uttar Pradesh, the headquarters of the namesake district Lalitpur District, India , a district of Uttar Pradesh Lalitpur Assembly constituency Lalitpur, Nepal (historically named Patan), the headquarters of
30-512: A population of 133,305, out of which males were 69,529 and females were 54,062. The literacy rate is 82.39% with male literacy being 89.12% and female literacy being 75.06%. Out of the total population, Hinduism is practised by 76.27% people, Islam 13.72%, Jainism 8.99% and the rest 1.02% follow other faiths. Deogarh is a village in Lalitpur district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . It
45-790: A simple, one cell square plan and is one of the earliest Hindu stone temples still surviving today. Built in the Gupta Period , the Dashavatara Temple at Deogarh shows the ornate Gupta style architecture . Neelkantheshwar Temple is an ancient temple of Lord Shiva is situated at Lalitpur which is famous for its beautiful architecture. Lalitpur Junction has very good rail connections with major Indian cities including New Delhi , Mumbai , Chennai , Patna , Indore , Bhopal , Gwalior , Jabalpur , Ujjain , Saugor , Puri, Allahabad , Bengaluru , Damoh , Jhansi . A new railway line connecting Lalitpur to Tikamgarh started in 2013.Now this line
60-568: A snake that lodged in his stomach, of which story parallels are heard in several places, {see Cunningham’s Archaeological Report, Vol. X) Lalitpur was ruled by Bundela Rajputs . Raja Mardan Singh Bundela, the Bundela king of Lalitpur at the time was one of the prominent figures to take up arms against the British in the First War of Independence in 1857. As per provisional data of 2011 census, Lalitpur had
75-546: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Lalitpur, India Lalitpur is a city and a municipal board in Lalitpur District, India in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh . It is also district headquarters of Lalitpur district. The city is part of Bundelkhand region. Raja Sumer Singh, a chieftain from Central India, is said to have founded Lalitpur, and named it after his queen Lalita Devi, who cured him of
90-580: Is extended up to Khajuraho . The nearest junctions are Jhansi Junction and Bina Junction in Madhya Pradesh . The important trains such as the shatabdi express Malwa Express , Punjab Mail , Bhopal - Lucknow Express , Jabalpur - Jammu Tawi Express , Gondwana Express , Bhopal Express , Shatabdi Express , sachkhand express , shatabdi express , mahamana express , pathankot express , Pushpak Express , Kushinagar Express and many other trains stop at Lalitpur. The proposed North-south-Corridor of
105-480: Is located on the right bank of Betwa River and to the west of Lalitpur hills. It is known for Gupta monuments and for many ancient monuments of Hindu and Jain origins inside and outside the walls of the fort.The Dashavatara Temple is an early 6th century Vishnu Hindu temple located at Deogarh, Uttar Pradesh which is 25 kilometers from Lalitpur, in the Betwa River valley in northern-central India . It has
120-643: The Golden-Quadrilateral Highway project passes through lalitpur is completed. Lalitpur is the only place in Bundelkhand Region having an Airstrip maintained by the Airport Authority of India. “Lalitpur founded by Raja Sumer Singh “ https://zenodo.org/records/3978974 Betwa River The Betwa ( Sanskrit : वेत्रावती) is a river in Central and Northern India , and a tributary of
135-904: The Yamuna . It rises in the Vindhya Range (Raisen) just north of Hoshangabad (Narmadapuram) in Madhya Pradesh and flows northeast through Madhya Pradesh and enters Uttar Pradesh after flowing through Orchha . Nearly half of its course, which is not navigable, runs over the Malwa Plateau . The confluence of the Betwa and the Yamuna rivers is in Hamirpur district in Uttar Pradesh where Yamuna flows north and Betwa flows just south of Hamirpur . The Indian navy named one of its frigates INS Betwa in honour of
150-571: The Betwa River is the construction of the Matatila Dam , an undertaking between the states of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh . The region is important for migratory waterbirds. The project to link Ken and Betwa rivers has raised environmental concerns: "Proponents of the project, led by the Union Water Ministry, say that the proposed Daudhan dam and the 2.5 km [1.6 mi] canal —
165-627: The balance of 358 kilometres (222 mi) in Uttar Pradesh. In accordance with an inter-state agreement between the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in 1973, Betwa River Board (BRB) was constituted under the Betwa River Board Act, 1976. The Union Minister of Ministry of Water Resources , the Chairman of the Board, the Union Minister of Power, Union Minister of State for Water Resources, and
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#1732844400976180-619: The chief ministers and ministers in charge of finance, irrigation and power in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh are its members. The Betwa River is being linked with the Ken River as a part of the river linking project in Madhya Pradesh. Latterly the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) has given its clearance for the Ken-Betwa inter-linking of rivers (ILR) project. Another noteworthy project on
195-608: The following district Lalitpur District, Nepal , a district in Nepal Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Lalitpur . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lalitpur&oldid=1168456757 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
210-585: The key structures of the project — that will transfer surplus water from the Uttar Pradesh section of the Ken to the Betwa in Madhya Pradesh are critical to irrigate nearly 700,000 hectares [1,700,000 acres] in drought-ravaged Bundelkhand. However, environmentalists say that such a dam will submerge at least 4,000 hectares of Madhya Pradesh's Panna tiger reserve, whose tigers were almost lost to poaching in 2009 and have only recently been partially replenished. They allege that most districts in Madhya Pradesh will not actually get
225-496: The river. In Sanskrit "Betwa" is Vetravati . This river is mentioned in the epic Mahabharata along with the Charmanwati river . Both are tributaries of Yamuna. Vetravati was also known as Shuktimati. The capital of Chedi Kingdom was on the banks of this river. The length of the river from its origin to its confluence with Yamuna is 590 kilometres (370 mi), out of which 232 kilometres (144 mi) lies in Madhya Pradesh and
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