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
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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
