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Place details
- Locality
- Badgam
- Region
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Country
- India
- Population
- 15,338
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
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Key facts
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- +5:30
- Settlement.timezone1
- IST
- Settlement.name
- Budgam
- Settlement.native_name
- Badgom
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ks
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Jammu and Kashmir#India#Asia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Union territory
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Budgam
- Settlement.established_date
- 1979
- Settlement.founder
- Ayatollah Aga Syed Yousuf Mosavi and Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah
- Settlement.government_type
- Democratic
- Settlement.governing_body
- Municipal Council
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Demographics
- Transport
- Road
- Railways
- Municipal committee
- See also
- References
- External links
Budgam (), known as Badgom (; ) in Kashmiri, is a town in Budgam district in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India. In the 2001 census, it was recorded as having a notified area committee, but by the 2011 census it had a municipal committee.
==Demographics== India census, Budgam had a population of 15,338. There were 9,003 males (59%) and 6,335 females (41%). Of the population, 1,335 (8.7%) were age 0-6: 680 males (51%) and 655 females (49%). The literacy rate for the people over six was 73.0% (males 84.3%, females 56.4%).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Budgam” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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