1987 as a residential-cum-affiliating university and is named after Vir Bahadur Singh, former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. Umanath Singh Autonomous State Medical Collage (UNS ASMC), in Siddiqpur has also been inaugurated by Prime Minister under One District One medical college during late 2021. Notable institutes Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, 21 km south from the district headquarters on Lumbini - Duddhi Road in Katghara Village near Mariahu Tehsil. Prasad Institute of Technology, affiliated to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University Tilak Dhari Singh Post Graduate Degree College, is in heart of the Sadar tehsil. It has stadium, parking and auditorium facilities as well. Local media Mostly all major English, Hindi and Urdu dailies including Times of India, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala, Hindustan, Rashtreey Sahara, Inquilab, Hausla News available in Jaunpur. Hindi and Urdu dailies also have their bureaus in the city. Almost all major Hindi TV news channel have stringers in the city. A Hindi newspaper Tarunmitra is also published from Jaunpur. The city also catches Radio FM waves from neighboring city Varanasi they are: RED FM 93.5 Radio Mirchi 98.3 Big FM 92.7 Vividh Bharti 100.6 Notable people Hasan Abidi Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay Munna Bajrangi Banarasidas Ashok Bhushan Yadavendra Dutt Dubey Syed Wazir Hasan Majid Ali Jaunpuri an Islamic scholar Muhammad Jaunpuri Ravi Kishan Ashish Dixit Shailendra Yadav Lalai Mohammad Akram Nadwi an Islamic scholar Dinesh Kunwar Patel Sushma Patel Tribhuvan Ram Dhananjay Singh Harivansh Singh Indu Prakash Singh Lalji Singh Shakeel Ahmed Samdani Jagdish Sonkar Rajesh Vivek Girish Chandra Yadav Reference External links Cities and towns in Jaunpur district Cities in Uttar Pradesh