# Baghpat District: Block, Tehsil & Gram Panchayat List, MLAs > Baghpat is a district in Meerut Division, Uttar Pradesh, with 6 blocks, 3 tehsils and 245 gram panchayats (LGD code 124). > Its population was 13.03 lakh in the 2011 Census, with a literacy rate of 72.0%. > The district elects 6 MLAs to the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. Source page: https://zoloth.com/uttar-pradesh/baghpat/ Updated 18 October 2026 · Sources: LGD, Election Commission of India, Census 2011 and other open government data ## Key facts - **Name:** Baghpat / बागपत - **Type:** District - **LGD code:** 124 - **Division:** Meerut Division - **State:** Uttar Pradesh - **Gram Panchayats:** 245 - **Villages:** 305 - **Blocks:** 6 - **Tehsils:** 3 - **Population (2011):** 13,03,048 - **Households:** 2,09,916 - **Literacy rate:** 72.0% - **Sex ratio:** 861 - **Area:** 1,321.0 km² - **Headquarters:** Baghpat - **Coordinates:** 28.9400° N, 77.2200° E - **Census 2011 code:** 139 - **Wikidata:** Q1797363 - **Schools:** 301 - **Bank Branches:** 184 - **Post Offices:** 161 - **Polling Centres:** 403 ## Blocks - [Baghpat](https://zoloth.com/uttar-pradesh/baghpat/baghpat/) - [Baraut](https://zoloth.com/uttar-pradesh/baghpat/baraut/) - [Binauli](https://zoloth.com/uttar-pradesh/baghpat/binauli/) - [Chhaprauli](https://zoloth.com/uttar-pradesh/baghpat/chhaprauli/) - [Khekra](https://zoloth.com/uttar-pradesh/baghpat/khekra/) - [Pilana](https://zoloth.com/uttar-pradesh/baghpat/pilana/) ## Frequently asked questions ### Which division is Baghpat District in? Baghpat District is part of Meerut Division. ### What is the headquarters of Baghpat District? The headquarters of Baghpat District is Baghpat. ### What is the population of Baghpat District? The 2011 Census counted 13,03,048 people in Baghpat District, living in 2,09,916 households. About 79% of them lived in villages. ### How many gram panchayats are there in Baghpat District? There are 245 gram panchayats in Baghpat District. ### How many villages are there in Baghpat District? Baghpat District has 305 revenue villages. ### How many blocks are there in Baghpat District? Baghpat District has 6 development blocks. ### How many tehsils are there in Baghpat District? Baghpat District has 3 tehsils. ### How many assembly seats are there in Baghpat District? Baghpat District has 3 assembly constituencies: Chhaprauli, Baraut and Baghpat. ### Who are the MLAs of Baghpat District? The MLAs for Baghpat District (2022 election) are Chhaprauli: Ajay Kumar (Rashtriya Lok Dal); Baraut: Krishan Pal Malik (Bharatiya Janata Party); Baghpat: Yogesh Dhama (Bharatiya Janata Party). ### Which Lok Sabha constituency is Baghpat in? Baghpat is in the Baghpat Lok Sabha constituency. ### Who is the MP of Baghpat? The Member of Parliament for Baghpat is Dr Rajkumar Sangwan (Rashtriya Lok Dal), elected in the 2024 Lok Sabha election. They got 4,88,967 votes (52.4%) and won by 1,59,459 votes. ### What is the ODOP product of Baghpat District? Under One District One Product (ODOP), Baghpat District is known for Home furnishing. ### What is the literacy rate of Baghpat District? The literacy rate of Baghpat District was 72.0% in the 2011 Census (men 82.4%, women 60.0%), against the state average of 67.7%. ### What is the sex ratio of Baghpat District? In the 2011 Census, Baghpat District had 861 females for every 1,000 males (state average 912). ### What is the area of Baghpat District? Baghpat District covers about 1,321 sq km, which works out to about 986 people per sq km on its 2011 population. ### Which block of Baghpat District has the most gram panchayats? Binauli block has the most gram panchayats (53). ### How many Gram Pradhans in Baghpat District are women? Women hold the Gram Pradhan post in 105 of the 245 gram panchayats of Baghpat District (43%), according to the UP Panchayati Raj Department list of October 2026. In the 2021 panchayat election, women won 117 of the 244 Gram Pradhan seats here (48%). ### How many candidates contested each Gram Pradhan seat in Baghpat District in 2021? In the 2021 panchayat election, an average of 7.3 candidates contested each Gram Pradhan seat in Baghpat District. No Gram Pradhan seat was won unopposed. ### How many ward members are there in Baghpat District? The gram panchayats of Baghpat District have 3,034 ward members in all, 1,112 of them women (37%), according to the UP Panchayati Raj Department list of October 2026. ### How do the panchayats of Baghpat perform in the Panchayat Advancement Index? The gram panchayats of Baghpat average 62.7 out of 100 in PAI 2023-24, slightly ahead of the Uttar Pradesh average of 54.8. ### Which panchayats in Baghpat District have won National Panchayat Awards? 3 gram panchayats in Baghpat District have won National Panchayat Awards from the Ministry of Panchayati Raj (up to 2025): Gwali Khera, Loyan, Meetli. ### How many banks and post offices are there in Baghpat District? We list 184 bank branches and 161 post offices in Baghpat District. ### How many polling centres are there in Baghpat District? The State Election Commission lists 403 polling centres in Baghpat District, and 301 government school buildings are on record. ### Which is the nearest airport to Baghpat District? The nearest airport to the centre of Baghpat District is Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL), about 44 km away as the crow flies. The next nearest is Noida International Airport (DXN), about 93 km away. ### How can I file a complaint with the Baghpat District administration? File your complaint on IGRS (Jansunwai) (jansunwai.up.nic.in) or call helpline 1076. It goes to the District Magistrate (DM) of Baghpat District and the department concerned, and you can track it online with the complaint number. On Tehsil Diwas (first and third Tuesday of the month), you can also meet the officers in person at your tehsil. ### Which districts are near Baghpat District? Neighbouring districts of Baghpat District: Ghaziabad (37 km), Meerut (47 km), Gautam Buddha Nagar (48 km), Shamli (58 km) and Hapur (59 km). ### What is the altitude of Baghpat District above sea level? The gram panchayats of Baghpat District lie at an average of about 227 metres above sea level (SRTM terrain model). ### How much rainfall does Baghpat District get, and how hot does it get? On 2001-2020 averages, the gram panchayats of Baghpat District get about 930 mm of rain a year, 83% of it between June and September. The hottest days reach about 49°C, while the coldest nights fall to about -1°C. (NASA POWER satellite-model estimates) ### How much farmland and tree cover is there around Baghpat District? Around the gram panchayats of Baghpat District, the land is on average 81% cropland, 10% tree cover and 5% built-up land, going by ESA WorldCover 2021 satellite maps. ## Sources - [Assembly constituency boundaries (post-2008 delimitation), datameet/maps](https://github.com/datameet/maps), CC BY 2.5 IN - [Airports (OurAirports)](https://ourairports.com/data/), Public domain - [Aspirational Districts and Aspirational Blocks Programmes](https://abp.championsofchange.gov.in/), Public government data - [NASA POWER agro-climatology (long-term monthly normals)](https://power.larc.nasa.gov/), Public domain (NASA) - [Zoloth curated tables (divisions, ODOP, schemes)](https://github.com/Zoloth-Technologies/my-panchayat-project), CC BY 4.0 - [Calculated by Zoloth from the sources cited alongside](https://github.com/Zoloth-Technologies/my-panchayat-project), CC BY 4.0 - [DIGIPIN national addressing grid, computed from the panchayat's reference point](https://www.indiapost.gov.in/vas/Pages/digipin.aspx), Open algorithm - [SRTM 1-arc-second elevation (AWS Terrain Tiles, Skadi)](https://registry.opendata.aws/terrain-tiles/), Public domain (SRTM); see terrain-tiles attribution - [Bank branches with IFSC/MICR (razorpay/ifsc-api)](https://github.com/razorpay/ifsc), MIT (public RBI data) - [UP gram pradhan election results 2005–2021 (in-rolls/local_elections_up)](https://github.com/in-rolls/local_elections_up), MIT (compilation); public election results - [ESA WorldCover 10 m land cover 2021 (v200)](https://esa-worldcover.org/), CC BY 4.0 - [Local Government Directory snapshot (planemad/india-local-government-directory)](https://github.com/planemad/india-local-government-directory), GODL-India - [Lok Sabha 2024 constituency results](https://results.eci.gov.in/PcResultGenJune2024/), Public results - [Government schemes (myScheme.gov.in)](https://www.myscheme.gov.in/), Public scheme information (dataset Apache-2.0) - [National Family Health Survey 5 district fact sheets](http://rchiips.org/nfhs/), Public fact sheets - [Panchayat Advancement Index, theme-wise gram panchayat scores](https://pai.gov.in/PS/Public/TW-GP.aspx), Public government data - [Census of India 2011 Primary Census Abstract (district)](https://censusindia.gov.in/), Public - [All-India post office and PIN directory with coordinates](https://data.gov.in/catalog/all-india-pincode-directory), GODL-India - [National Panchayat Awards winners](https://panchayataward.gov.in/), Public government data - [Railway stations (datameet/railways)](https://github.com/datameet/railways), CC0 - [UP SEC panchayat polling centres (in-rolls/up_polling_station_locations)](https://github.com/in-rolls/up_polling_station_locations), Public government data; compilation by in-rolls - [Gram panchayat office-bearers report (PB-2 form)](https://panchayatiraj.up.nic.in/pblc_pg/Reports/PB2FormReport?ReportType=Filled&District=BALLIA), Public government report - [UP Vidhan Sabha 2022 and Lok Sabha 2024 segment results](https://results.eci.gov.in/), Public results - [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/), CC0 - [Village boundaries with Census 2001 codes (datameet/indian_village_boundaries)](https://github.com/datameet/indian_village_boundaries), ODbL 1.0 - [Hindi names of assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies (Hindi Wikipedia state lists)](https://hi.wikipedia.org/), CC BY-SA 4.0 (page text); the names themselves are facts - [Hindi spellings derived from a place-name token dictionary (learnt from LGD and SEC names)](https://github.com/Zoloth-Technologies/my-panchayat-project), CC BY 4.0 - [Bihar panchayat general election 2021, Mukhiya and Sarpanch results (in-rolls/local_elections_bihar)](https://github.com/in-rolls/local_elections_bihar), MIT (compilation); public election results - [UDISE+ Basic Details of Schools (school directory with locations), via India Data Portal](https://ckan.indiadataportal.com/dataset/udise/resource/457fddf1-982f-4c85-855d-5095578accc1), ODC-BY 1.0 (India Data Portal); underlying UDISE+ data is public government data - [Bihar Vidhan Sabha 2025 results by constituency](https://results.eci.gov.in/ResultAcGenNov2025/), Public results (ECI); Wikipedia compilation CC BY-SA 4.0 - [Local Government Directory, current snapshot (ramSeraph/opendata daily mirror)](https://ramseraph.github.io/opendata/lgd/), GODL-India (mirror under Unlicense) - [LGD village boundaries (ramSeraph/indian_admin_boundaries)](https://github.com/ramSeraph/indian_admin_boundaries/releases/tag/villages), CC0 1.0 - [Rajasthan panchayat general election 2026 (structure, schedule and results)](https://sec.rajasthan.gov.in/GramPanchayatDetails.aspx), Public government data - [Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha 2023 results by constituency](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Rajasthan_Legislative_Assembly_election), Public results (ECI); Wikipedia compilation CC BY-SA 4.0