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 BALLIA.

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to the very light assessment of the for

agricultural

in almost

not an

purposes

any other

uncommon

Government revenue, land

in Ballia,

has a market value higher than

merely,

price,

Rs. 200 per bighd (^3o per acre) is and double that price is far from being

—

and Sukul Chapra on the Ganges, and

District.

unprecedented.

and

Conunerce

Trade.

Ballia

Belthra (Turtipar) and Moniar on the Gogra, are marts for river trade,

exporting sugar and cereals, and importing

But Rasra

is

rice,

the chief place of trade, and

is

piece-goods,

centre of the District for imported articles, especially iron

and

for the collections for the export of grain, sugar,

Some

of the District trade finds

on the

line of railway,

farther

down

good

its

but most

the Ganges.

Traffic

way by road is is

and

to Ghazipur

There are no metalled roads at all, and season wheeled traffic is for the most part impossible.

—The

and

spices,

fuller’s earth.

and Buxar

taken by boat to Patna, or even much impeded by the absence of

roads.

Administration.

salt, etc.

the great distributing

in the rainy

District staff consists of a Collector-Magistrate

and two Deputy-Collectors. The civil and criminal jurisdiction is in the hands of the Judge of Ghdzipur. There are two munsifs located at Rasra and Ballia. The District is divided for fiscal purposes into the three tahsils of Ballia, Rasra, and Bansdih. The land revenue in 1881-82 amounted to ^^63,197, and the revenue from other sources, i.e. licence tax, local cesses, stamps, and excise, to ^{^33,020 total, ;^96,2i7. There is one Municipality— Ballia town, which had in 1881-82 a revenue of ^809; and there are eight towns under the Chaukidan' Act, which are assessed at ;^i256 for police and sanitary purposes only. The total strength of the regular police for 1882 was 240 officers and men, and their cost was returned at ^3534. There is no jail in Ballia, and prisoners are sent to the Ghazipur jail. The District contains 13 Imperial and i local post-office, but no telegraphic communication. In 1882 there were 83 schools with a total of 2551 scholars, and the expenditure of the Educational Department amounted to ;i£^io46. There is one Anglo - vernacular school at Ballia; all the rest are

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elementary vernacular schools. Sanitary Aspects.

— The

Ghazipur and Azamgarh

and cold are

less

District in point

is

similar to the border Districts of

of climate.

The extremes of The dry

than in the more Western Districts.

heat

west

winds are less prevalent, and the rainy season is longer and the rainfall more abundant. No record of temperature has been kept. The rainfall The for three years -1880, 1881, and 1882 averaged 53‘3 inches.

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—

and death returns cannot be accepted as accurate, but according to them the births registered in 1882 amounted to 26 ’66 per thousand, and the registered deaths to 2 7 '51 per thousand. To European constibirth