About Pure Kanta Village

Pure Kanta is a mid sized village in Handia tehsil, in the district of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,247, made up of 605 males and 642 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,061 females per 1000 males. The village covers 49.2 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 221502, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Pure Kanta compares

By the 2011 count Pure Kanta is the 277th largest of the 600 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 1,517 residents. Its 49.2 hectares work out to about 25 people per hectare, densely settled for a rural area. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 967.

Getting to Pure Kanta

Pure Kanta is well connected by rural standards, with buses in the village itself and a railway station close by. The census records public bus service for Pure Kanta as Available. Private bus service is recorded as Available. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Pure Kanta from other places

Pure Kanta lies about 45 km from Allahabad, and the nearest railway station is Bhiti, about 4.4 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Villages closest to Pure Kanta

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Handia tehsil.

• Pure Thakurain Ta Barista under 2 km
• Kagapur under 2 km
• Bhui under 2 km
• Bagadaha Urf Pure Vikramshah under 2 km
• Pure Sukhaw under 2 km
• Goaharpur Ta Jalalpur 1.6 km

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.