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	Ballia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The town acts as the district headquarters of Ballia district of Uttar Pradesh.
		The language mostly spoken in Ballia is Bhojpuri, a dialect of Hindi.
		Ballia was the first city to achieve independence in the year 1942 under the leadership of Chittu Pandey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ballia (248 words)

	Ballia - LoveToKnow 1911
		BALLIA, a town and district of British India, in the Benares division of the United Provinces.
		The town is situated on the left bank of the Ganges, below the confluence of the lesser Sarju.
		The district of Ballia, constituted in 1879, occupies an angle at the junction of the Gogra with the Ganges, being bordered by two districts of Behar.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ballia (162 words)

	SAMEER TIMES - Articles - Ballia
		Ballia was considered so backward that residents of other districts (which were also backward) in the eastern United Provinces, in order to give themselves a feeling of superiority, used to call residents of this district ‘BALLIATICS’ — a term coined and used derogatorily to mean simpletons.
		Ballia holds the unique distinction of being the only district in 1942 free of British rule and under the rule of people.
		Ballia thus earned a place in the annals of freedom struggle and for long its name evoked awe all over the country.
	www3.sympatico.ca /sadhnalal/articles/ballia.html (752 words)

	personality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The brave son of Ballia Shree Chittu Pandey was born on 10th may 1865 in Rattuchak (Baina) village which is 6 kms away from Sagarpali Railway station in distt.
		Acharya Hazari Prasad Dwivedi (1907-1979), a critic, novelist, and essayist, was born in Arat-Dubeka Chhapra, a remote village of Ballia district in Uttar Pradesh, inherited a passion for astrology, a love for Sanskrit, and a mind inquiring into the mysteries of Indian religion and cultural tradition.
		Ballia which is land of Maharshi Bhragu, Martyre Mangal Pandey and many more also gave birth to wife of first President of independent India Smt.
	ballia.nic.in /personality.htm (1672 words)

	Campus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ballia district is the easternmost district of the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP), which is the most populous state of India.
		Ballia is one of the 70 districts of UP, and the population of Ballia district is about 2.8 million.
		Ballia city is one of the train stations of the Indian railways.
	grads.iges.org /gandhicollege/campus.html (117 words)

	Spotlight on Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Discordian Haven of One-Ballia is a massive, socially progressive nation, notable for its devotion to social welfare.
		One-Ballia's national animal is the roast dwarf hamster, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the twig.
		One-Ballia is ranked 1st in the region and 1,777th in the world for Most Rebellious Youth.
	www.nationstates.net /cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=display_nation/nation=one-ballia (197 words)

	U.P. Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ballia : April 8, 2005 The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mr.
		He said that paucity of fund would not be allowed to hamper development of Ballia and all old roads of the district would be repaired within a month.
		Under it, 544 villages of Ballia district would be electrified at a cost of Rs.
	upgov.up.nic.in /news11.asp?idn=1860 (679 words)

	Ballia’s pride - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It’s a question that has the Ballia electorate in a bind since Chandra Shekhar set out to seek re-election from the constituency for a record eighth term and built his campaign around the emotive appeal of electing him one last time before he quits active politics.
		Outside Ballia it is a matter of pride to introduce ourselves as residents of Chandra Shekharji’s constituency.
		This is a battle for change, a fight for the Dalit identity.” Yadav’s candidature from Ballia is a political masterstroke set to eat into the Yadav vote-bank that would have traditionally gone to Chandra Shekhar as the SP is supporting him.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/apr242004/iv9.asp (795 words)

	Ballia District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ballia district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state, India.
		The city of Ballia, the district headquarters, is believed to the birth place and workplace of Maharshi Bhrigu.
		The language spoken in Ballia is Bhojpuri, a dialect of Hindi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ballia_District (93 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper
		It’s been 27 years since Chandrashekhar first won from Ballia, a constituency near the Uttar Pradesh-Bihar border in the heart of an area termed “sick” by development experts.
		You don’t deserve it.” Chandrashekhar’s curse is evidently why Ballia is as it is. “Now, it’s a question of waiting till he dies.
		He is a Ballia migrant, a multitude of people who were born in Ballia but who will not return to live there.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main1.asp?filename=Ne050104Ballia.asp (1423 words)

	India Resource Center - Arsenic Scare Spreads to Ballia
		New Delhi: Laboratory studies sponsored by the Centre for Science and Environment have confirmed that arsenic contamination has reached Ballia in Uttar Pradesh, moving westwards from its traditional region of concentration in Bengal.
		The CSE announced the findings at a public meeting attended by director Sunita Narain, Dipankar Chakraborti, director of the School of Environmental Studies, Jadavpur University, Binod Khaitan, professor, department of dermatology and venereology at AIIMS, and Paul Deverill, project officer, child environment, Unicef.
		The CSE director said there is a need for a special mission to deal with arsenic and fluoride poisoning in the country.
	www.indiaresource.org /news/2004/1045.html (576 words)

	News Headings
		BALLIA (UP): Battle-scared and bearded, former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar appears to have a tough fight on his hands in Ballia from where the SJP President is making a bid to enter the Lok Sabha for the seventh time in the October 3 polling.
		Amid prospects of polarisation of Brahmin and Backward Class, the electoral battle for this predominantly rural constituency promises to be a keenly contested affair between Mr Chandra Shekhar and BJP nominee Ramkrishna Mishra.
		The poll in Ballia revolves around the stature of the former Prime Minister where the BJP, the Congress and the BSP have raised a banner against him for his alleged “apathy” towards development of the constituency.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99sep22/head6.htm (4335 words)

	Slow Death by Arsenic by Kimberlye Kowalczyk
		Recently, the ground water in Uttar Pradesh's Ballia district was found to be contaminated with arsenic.
		The report on arsenic contamination in Ballia district was released by Sunita Narain, Director of the Delhi-based Centre for Science and Education (CSE), at a conference in Delhi recently.
		Having seen obvious symptoms of arsenicosis in the villagers of Ballia, CSE sponsored their own tests on hand pump water, as well as blood, nail and hair samples from the area in August 2004.
	www.boloji.com /wfs3/wfs315.htm (1110 words)

	Media Briefing Workshops
		A CSE study in 2004 had found that the contamination had spread to Ballia district, and was killing people there.
		The legislator from Ballia, Bharat Singh was the chief guest.
		The second day of the workshop was devoted to a tour of some arsenic-affected villages in Ballia district, where the participants witnessed the prevailing conditions first-hand.
	www.cseindia.org /programme/media/varanasi.htm (486 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> Spotlight -> The Ayodhya crisis -> Time is ripe for a solution to Ayodhya: Joshi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Ballia (UP): Bouyed over the support he got on his stand on the Ram Temple issue, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Murli Manohar Joshi undertook a two-day tour of Eastern Uttar Pradesh campaigning for the Ram Temple at Ayodhya for which he favoured coming together of the two communities.
		Joshi toured Ghazipur, Ballia and Mughalsarai and received a rousing reception, the first after his return to the government after he took a stand that he would quit the government if judiciary decided to frame charges against him.
		People across the country had expressed their desire that the issue be resolved as speedily as possible, he said adding this feeling had also received further encouragement after the findings of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) excavation report.
	news.indiainfo.com /spotlight/ayodhya/12ayodhya6.html (206 words)

	CIMMYT. Study promotes resource-conserving technologies for under-used lands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For example, in Uttar Pradesh, an estimated 1.2 million hectares are not used because of a high buildup of salts.
		In India, the impoverished Ballia District in Uttar Pradesh is representative of conditions throughout the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains.
		A recently completed study by Parvesh Chandna and colleagues used remote sensing and GIS methodology to estimate and map the area of under-used land in Ballia District.
	www.cimmyt.org /english/webp/support/news/resource_conserv.htm (961 words)

	USAID India : Success Stories - Innovations In Child Survival And Reproductive Health
		Ballia district in eastern Uttar Pradesh (India 's most populated state), has a rural population of 2.5 million.
		They include increased coverage of immunization, family planning methods and safe motherhood initiatives; improved care of the new born, especially during pneumonia and diarrhea; prevention of malnutrition, and Vitamin A deficiency.
		Ballia's success story has been made possible by integrating health with development.
	www.usaid.gov /in/about_usaid/success_stories/child_survival.htm (303 words)

	Arsenic from the Himalayas? - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Areport on the high levels of arsenic contamination in Ballia, among Uttar Pradesh’s poorest districts and home to 27.5 lakh people, published by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has raised the hackles of the government.
		Although it is not clear how the arsenic in the soil reaches river water, there is some evidence to suggest that this could be the result of extraction of water through tubewells.
		The Ballia administration responded to the CSE report by serving a legal notice on the Centre.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/nov142004/sl3.asp (710 words)

	Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ballia, UP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Kendriya Vidyalaya, Ballia presently running at Naveen Krishi Utpad Mandi Samiti, Tikhampur is to be shifted shortly in a newly constructed building at Zeerabasti, a calm and peaceful place, with lush green environment fully suitable to education and academics, 4 kms away from city.
		The new Vidyalaya with an area of 4.75 acres of land shall be an asset to the district with modern technique of education and learning.
		Vidyalaya may not be that sound in infrastructure and facilities, but it is a temporary phase, as we are soon to be shifted in a new building that will have all the amenities.
	www.kvballia.com (253 words)

	peopleandplanet.net > health and pollution > features > arsenic deaths spreading in india (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The first (unpublished) evidence came in January this year, when 2,404 test samples of water were drawn from handpumps in 55 villages in Ballia.
		ITRC had reported in July 2004 that the samples of water they tested from the district were safe, and so the villagers in the area had gone back to drinking from water drawn up by handpumps.
		Having seen obvious symptoms of arsenicosis in the villagers of Ballia, CSE sponsored their own tests on handpump water, as well as blood, nail and hair samples from the area in August 2004.
	www.peopleandplanet.net /doc.php?id=2379 (1199 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Chandra Shekhar fights 'Atal wave'
		Chandra Shekhar, the young turk of yesteryear, is touring the Ballia Lok Sabha constituency with usual confidence, focusing more on national issues than the local ones.
		It is this sense of grandeur, one might say delusion of grandeur, deeply seated in the local psyche, which almost decisively influences the voting behaviour of the electorate, and always favours Chandra Shekhar.
		Active participation of Ballia's social and political leaders in the national movement and the famous 'Ballia uprising' in 1942 are still fresh in the minds of the people, including the younger generation.
	www.rediff.com /election/1999/sep/28ballia.htm (506 words)

	Mob stops 'Mangal Pandey' screening in hometown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Lucknow, Aug 13 (IANS) Angry about the allegedly distorted depiction of freedom hero Mangal Pandey, youths in his hometown Ballia raised slogans against Aamir Khan and prevented the screening of the film, "Mangal Pandey - The Rising" there.
		Demonstrators blocked highways, roads and even obstructed movement of trains in and around Ballia town on Friday.
		They also want to know why there was no mention of the martyr's birthplace, Ballia," Jaiswal said.
	www.nowrunning.com /news/news.asp?id=3968 (209 words)

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		Counting of votes for the civic elections will start from today evening at the concerned tehsil headquarters.
		Union Bank, Malgodam Road, Ballia - 277001 by OP Singh.
	www.ballianews.com /index.html (220 words)

	rediff.com: Violence breaks out in Ballia, 2 students killed
		Two students were killed and several injured in a clash between local police and college students in former prime minister Chandra Shekhar's constituency Ballia in eastern Uttar Pradesh yesterday.
		While one student, Navin Pandey, was alleged to have been gunned down in police custody, another died of injuries in the violence that broke out as a consequence of Pandey's death, a government spokesman in the state capital Lucknow said.
		To prevent recurrence of violence, this team led by Home Secretary Anuj Bishnoi decided to clamp indefinite curfew in the city, the spokesman said.
	www.rediff.com /news/2000/feb/12balia.htm (385 words)

	Ballia - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Situated on a rich alluvial plain, Ballia is a district administrative center and an important market for rice, sugarcane, and oilseed.
		Changes in the course of the Ganges River destroyed the old town in the years from 1873 to 1877, and a new town was created in 1900.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Ballia" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ballia.html (198 words)

	Home
		A largest donkey fair, famous for being India's biggest bargaining bonanza event has been organised in Uttar Pradesh where thousands of traders come to buy the donkeys and other animal at cheap rates.
		I was so tempt to buy one just for the sake of participation, and trade it to some local merchant.
		While in Ballia, can try out some of the local favorites, quite different from your normal naan and curry.
	ballia.corners-of-the-world.com (136 words)

	Reports - Eco Friends [ecofriends.org]
		The NGOs and University of Miyazaki propose to adopt Chainchapara, Hariharpur and Sawarban villages of Ballia district, with financial assistance from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for initiating integrated arsenic mitigation measures over a span of two years.
		12 blocks out of 17 in Ballia district are reported to be highly affected with Arsenic where the Arsenic concentration in the groundwater exceeds 50 microgram/litre.
		Those who were informed felt helpless as they lacked an access to safe drinking water supply system and medical examination/health care system.
	www.ecofriends.org /reports/065.htm (392 words)

	Mangal Pandey belongs to whole of India: Aamir Khan : Interviews News : ApunKaChoice.Com
		Reacting to reports over non-inclusion of Ballia, the native town of Mangal Pandey, in The Rising, superstar Aamir Khan says the revolutionary does not belong to one group or community but to the whole of India.
		Aamir was seeking to smoothen some ruffled feathers over non-inclusion of Ballia, the native town of the revolutionary, in the newly released film.
		The focus was Barrackpore and even those scenes were shot in Mumbai because the place no longer looked the same as it did in 1857,” Ketan Mehta, the film’s director said.
	www.apunkachoice.com /scoop/interviews/20050817-0.html (944 words)

	Tsunami News for Ballia, India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The 2005 projected population for Ballia, India is 110,181
		The Tsunami and the Discourse of Compassion Dec 31, 2004
		Cola, Starbucks and Exxon have all dipped into their coffers to support the tsunami relief effort.
	danger.mongabay.com /earthquake/2004/Ballia.html (69 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The whole eastern region of Uttar Pradesh is backward and Ballia is one of the eastern districts of up.
		Three Ballias have been flooded in the past.
		In that respect, Ballia is one of the most unfortunate places.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main2.asp?filename=Ne050804In_no_situation.asp (904 words)

	Indian Marchers Protest Coca-Cola Pollution, Water Use
		A march between two Coca-Cola bottling facilities 250 kilometers (155 miles) apart is underway to focus public attention on problems the protesters say have been created by the Coca-Cola company in India.
		Thousands of people are expected to take part in the march and rally between the Coca-Cola bottling plants in Ballia and Mehdiganj, both in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
		The 10 day march began Monday in Ballia, and organizers plan that it will end at a rally in Mehdiganj, near the holy city of Varanasi, on November 24.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/nov2004/2004-11-16-05.asp (811 words)

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