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'''Lingiyadih''' is a [[census town]] in [[Bilaspur District, Chhattisgarh|Bilaspur district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[Chhattisgarh]].

==Demographics==
{{As of|2001}} India [[census]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archivedate=2004-06-16|title= Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns  (Provisional)|accessdate=2008-11-01|publisher= Census Commission of India}}</ref> Lingiyadih had a population of 15,769. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Lingiyadih has an average literacy rate of 65%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male [[literacy]] is 73%, and female literacy is 57%. In Lingiyadih, 16% of the population is under six years of age.

Ligniyadih is satellite town of [[Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh|Bilaspur]], which was once a village located just across [[Arpa River, India|Arpa River]] flowing across Bilaspur town.

For many years, there was a large brick-kiln owned by [[Mulji Jagmal Sawaria]], who had laid a private [[narrow gauge]] line in year 1935 for transportation of bricks across Arpa River over a railway-bridge built by him connecting kiln to his work office at Jagmal Block in Bilaspur. This railway line was dismantled in 1948.<ref>Diary of Golden Days at Jharia – A Memoir and History of Gurjar Kashtriya Samaj of Kutch in Coalfields of Jharia – written by Natwarlal Devram Jethwa of Calcutta(1998):pp:41:Rai Sahib Mulji Jagmal Sawaria - Life sketch.</ref>

==References==
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{{Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh}}

[[Category:Cities and towns in Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh]]

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