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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Etmadpur
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| settlement_type = Town
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
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| subdivision_name1 = [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Agra district|Agra]]
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| population_total = 21897
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| demographics_type1 = [[Language]]
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info1 = [[Hindi language|Hindi]]<ref name="langoff">{{cite web|title=52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India|url=http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf|website=nclm.nic.in|publisher=[[Ministry of Minority Affairs]]|access-date=26 December 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525141614/http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM52ndReport.pdf|archive-date=25 May 2017}}</ref>
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| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
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'''Etmadpur''' is a town ([[tehsil]]) in [[Agra district]] in the state of [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]]. It is located eastward 19 km from [[Agra]]. It is 274 km far from state capital [[Lucknow]].

==Demographics==
As of [[2011 Indian Census]], Etmadpur had a total population of 21,897, of which 11,591 were males and 10,306 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 3,069. The total number of literates in Etmadpur was 14,161, which constituted 64.7% of the population with male literacy of 70.6% and female literacy of 58.0%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Etmadpur was 75.2%, of which male literacy rate was 82.2% and female literacy rate was 67.4%. The [[Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes]] population was 4,547 and 2 respectively. Etmadpur had 3577 households in 2011.<ref name="Census2011Gov">{{cite web |title=Census of India: Etmadpur |url=http://censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=143740 |website=www.censusindia.gov.in |access-date=9 February 2020}}</ref>

{{As of|2001}} India [[census]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999|archive-date=16 June 2004|title= Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)|access-date=1 November 2008|publisher= Census Commission of India}}</ref> Etmadpur had a population of 19,412. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Etmadpur has an average literacy rate of 55%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 63%, and female literacy is 45%. In Etmadpur, 17% of the population is under 6 years of age.

==About the town==
It is a small town located on [[National Highway 2 (India)|national highway 2]] connecting [[Delhi]] to [[Kolkata]]. The town is believed to be named after [[Mirza Ghiyas Beg]] the ''I'timād-ud-Daulah'', a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] official, father of [[Nur Jahan]] and grandfather of [[Mumtaz Mahal]].

Ram Pratap Singh of the Bhartiya Janta Party won the 2017 state assembly elections to become the [[Member of the Legislative Assembly (India)|MLA]] from Etmadpur.<ref name="Election Commission of India">[http://archive.eci.gov.in/May2012/pollupd/ac/states/s24/aconst339.htm "UP State Elections 2012"]</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Agra district}}

[[Category:Cities and towns in Agra district]]

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