Sikandra 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 Kanpur Dehat district

Kanpur Dehat district

Ramabai Nagar district , formerly known as Kanpur Dehat district, is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The administrative headquarters of the district are at Mati, Akbarpur. This district is part of Kanpur division.-History:...

 in the India

India

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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...

.Sikandra is also spelled as Sikandara

Sikandara

Sikandara is located on NH-2 about 80 km away from kanpur toward west. It is a town and a nagar panchayat in Kanpur Dehat district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Sikandara is written somewhere also as Sikandra. It is also a legislature constituency.Whatsoever it may be,it is somehow...

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It is the headquarters of the tehsil

Tehsil

A Tehsil or Tahsil/Tahasil , also known as Taluk and Mandal, is an administrative division of some country/countries of South Asia....

 of the same name. Sikandra tehsil consists of Sandalpur and Rajpur

Rajpur, Kanpur Dehat

Rajpur is a town in Kanpur Dehat district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, approximately 10 km west of Bhognipur. Satti, Khasbara, Dhadhapur, Silehra, Khalaspur are its neighbouring villages...

 Development Blocks.

Demographics

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Census

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, Sikandra had a population of 10,884. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Sikandra has an average literacy rate of 58%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 64%, and female literacy is 51%. In Sikandra, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age.