See Sirmaur

Sirmaur

Sirmaur may refer to:* Sirmaur district, Himachal Pradesh, India* Sirmaur, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India...

 for disambiguation

Sirmaur 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 Rewa district

Rewa District

Rewa District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The city Rewa is the district headquarters. Rewa is also known as land of white tigers.-Geography:...

 in the India

India

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n state

States and territories of India

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 of Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....

.

Geography

Sirmaur is located at 24.85°N 81.38°E. It has an average elevation of 291 metre

Metre

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s (954 feet).

The Rewa Plateau

Rewa Plateau

The Rewa Plateau covers a portion of Rewa district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.The Rewa Plateau lies between the Kaimur Range in the south and Vindhya Range or Binj Pahar in the north. To the north of the Binj Pahar are the alluvial plains known as Uprihar. The plateau covers the Huzur,...

 covers the Huzur, Sirmaur, and Mauganj

Mauganj

Mauganj is a town and a nagar panchayat in Rewa district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.-Geography:Mauganj is located at . It has an average elevation of 313 metres ....

 tehsils of Rewa district. The height decreases from south to north.

Significant waterfalls on the Tamsa or Tons and its tributaries, as they come down from the Rewa Plateau, are: Chachai Falls (127m) on the Bihad River, a tributary of the Tamsa, the Keoti Falls

Keoti Falls

Keoti Falls is in Rewa district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the 24th highest waterfall in India.-The Falls:...

 (98m) on the Mahana River, a tributary of the Tamsa, Odda Falls

Bahuti Falls

The Bahuti Falls is a waterfall in Rewa district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.-The falls:Bahuti Falls is on the Odda River as it rushes down the edge of the Rewa Plateau to join the Bihad River, which is a tributary of Tamsa or Tons River. It is near Chachai Falls.It has a height of .The...

 (145m) on the Odda River, a tributary of the Belah River, which is itself a tributary of the Tamsa, and Purwa Falls

Purwa Falls

The Purwa Falls is a waterfall in Rewa district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.-The falls:The Tons River while descending through the Rewa Plateau and draining northwards makes a vertical falls of known as the Purwa Falls....

 (70m) on the Tamsa or Tons.

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...

, Sirmaur had a population of 10,938. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Sirmaur has an average literacy rate of 60%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 70%, and female literacy is 49%. In Sirmaur, 15% of the population is under 6 years of age.