Jayapur

Jayapur
Jayapur
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.

History

According to the ancestors of this village, Jayapur is nearly 400 years old. According to BHU's political science department's HoD, Prof KK Mishra, in the 17th century, when the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was said to be on a temple-demolition spree, his soldiers caught attention of an old temple of Lord Hanuman in the village.^{[clarification needed]}^{[citation needed]}