Chandauli

(A District in State of Uttar Pradesh in INDIA)

Ambrish Rai

Chandauli is a town and a nagar panchayat in Chandauli district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Chandauli District. Chandauli became a separate district for the first time on May 20, 1997. However, after coming into power, Mulayam Singh Yadav dissolved it on January, 2004 and ensured its merger again in Varanasi. But, the decision was challenged in the high court after which its recreation was ensured on June 17, 2004.


Chandauli is located at 25.27°N 83.27°E.[1] It has an average elevation of 70 metres (230 ft). It comes under Varanasi division of Uttar Pradesh. It is located just about 30 kilometres from Varanasi. Mughalsarai, a major and very important railway junction between Northern and Eastern India(also considered a junction point connecting North India with East India) is located in Chandauli district. Once, it(Mughalsarai) enjoyed the position of the largest railway marshalling yard of Asia.

Number of tehsils : 3 : Chandauli, Sakaldeeha and Chakia;
Number of blocks : 9 : Barahani,Chandauli,Niyamtabad, Chahaniya, Sakaldeeha, Dhanapur Chakiya, Shahabganj and Naugarh.
Thanas : 12 Mughalsarai,Alinagar,Balua,Chakiya,Chandauli,Saiyyadraja,Sakaldeeha,Shahabganj,Baburi,Gheena, Dhanapur and Naugarh.
Number of villages 1651;
STD Code 05412

Rivers : Ganga,Karmanasha,Chandraprabha and others.
Dams :Naugarh,Mushakhard,Chandraprabha,Latifshah,Bhaisoda.
Canals :Chandraprabha,Mushakhad,Narayanpur Lift Canal.
Waterfalls :Rajdari,Devdari,Aurvatard,Karmanasha Waterfall and others.
Lakes :Chandraprabha,Bhaisoda,Naugarh,Mushakhard,Latifshah and others.
Crops :Paddy, Rice.

Gaon Giraw is the first weekly and first daily Hindi newspaper of the district. Shridhar Dwivedi is the founder of this publication group.

Famous personalities

1- Lal Bahadur Shastri

2- Kamalapati Tripathi

3- Namvar Singh

4- Kashinath Singh

5- Rajnath Singh

6- Sujit Kumar

 and many more......

It has great natural beauty in the form of Chandraprabha Sanctuary and many waterfalls which include Devdari and Rajdari. 

The District contributes to Indian GDP by providing the various cereals from the district including paddy and rice. Popularly known as the "Dhaan Ka Katora of Uttar Pradesh" bacause of extreme fertile lands of the Gangetic Plain. Chanduali district made big contributions at the time of freedom movements.

Having lot of qualities in itself but this district comes under the Red Corridor districts.

Their are several reason for that, some of them are:

1- Naxalism

2- Borders of Bihar and some what attached to Madhaya Pradesh may become the political reasons for    

    the lack of development.

3- Change of political leader ships ferquently.

4- Lack in the proper knowledge of selling their crops.

5- Literacy.

Chanduali District is not much developed and there are lot of problems of infrastructure and education. 

But slowly, situation is improving as people are now awakened and want development of the area as critical for their future. 

Some of the pictures of "Chandauli" i would like to show you below of my survey: