Jaura, Madhya Pradesh

Jaura
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Nickname:  City of Guava
Jaura Location in Madhya Pradesh, India Jaura Jaura (India)
Coordinates: 26°20′40″N 77°48′41″E
Country	India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Morena
Population  (2001)
• Total	25,514
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Postal code	476221

Jaura (also spelt Joura or Jora) is a town and a nagar palika in Morena district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Jaura is part of Morena Lok Sabha constituency along with seven other Vidhan Sabha segments, namely, Sabalgarh, Sumawali, Morena, Dimani and Ambah in this district and Sheopur and Vjaypur in Sheopur district.

Jaura is also a railway station on the Gwalior Light Railway, a narrow-gauge line from Gwalior to Sheopur.

Demographics

As of the 2011 Census of India, Joura had a population of 398,111. Males constitute 54% of the population and females 46%. Joura has an average literacy rate of 55.8% (as per 2001 census, it was 64%), less than the national average of 74%: male literacy is 66%, and female literacy is 42.6%. In Joura, 16% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Among the villages that pertain to the tehsil of Jaura is gram panchayat Chachiha. Visiting place :- pagara dam , tiktoli waterfall

Gallery

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  Jaura railway station
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  Exams in Jaura
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  Woman doing a khadi training, Mahatma Gandhi Seva Ashram, Jaura
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  Girls playing hopscotch, Jaura
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  Men with guns, Jaura
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  Monsoon, Jaura
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  Potter and his work, Jaura
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  Potter at work, Jaura
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  Woman spinning, Jaura
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  Women doing a khadi training, Jaura
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  Bee swarms, Jaura