What is Etah district?
'''Etah district''' is one of the [[List of districts in Uttar Pradesh|districts]] of [[Uttar Pradesh]] state of [[India]]. [[Etah]] town is the district headquarters. Etah district is a part of [[Aligarh Division]]. In 2006, the [[Ministry of Panchayati Raj]] named Etah one of the country's 250 most backward districts (total of 640).<ref name=abcd/> It is receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF). It is one of the 34 districts in Uttar Pradesh currently receiving this funds.<ref name=abcd>{{cite web|author=Ministry of Panchayati Raj |date=September 8, 2009 |title=A Note on the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme |publisher=National Institute of Rural Development |url=http://www.nird.org.in/brgf/doc/brgf_BackgroundNote.pdf |access-date=September 27, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405033402/http://www.nird.org.in/brgf/doc/brgf_BackgroundNote.pdf |archive-date=April 5, 2012 }}</ref> ==Demographics== Etah district has a population of 1,761,143.<ref name=districtcensus>{{cite web | url = http://www.census2011.co.in/district.php | title = District Census 2011 | access-date = 2011-09-30 | year = 2011 | publisher = Census2011.co.in}}</ref> This district according to ranking comes 272nd in India by population (out of a total of [[Districts of India|640]]).<ref name=districtcensus/> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Districts of Uttar Pradesh]]