The district’s literacy rate is also abysmally low – at 53.89%. This is still way below the national average of 940. In Shamli this is lower than the rest of Uttar Pradesh – 878 women per 1,000 men – while the UP average is 912. It’s also a place where polarisation and chauvinism combine, highlighted most obviously by the district’s skewed sex ratio – or number of women to every thousand men. Shamli has been the epicentre of communal violence in 2013 and this raised its head once again during the four successive lockdowns, where Muslims were spoken of as ‘COVID-19 spreaders’. She is the first women to be put in charge of the district ever since it was carved out of Muzaffarnagar in Western UP in the year 2011. Jasjit Kaur took over as the district magistrate at the end of February, just a month before India went into lockdown. COVID-19 relief kits distributed by the Shamli district magistrate.
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