| Voice of Osmanabad :
Nitin Kale
The district is recognized as earthquake prone area of Maharashtra.
District has faced high level of human and economic losses in the
earthquake of 1992. Many people have not yet acquired their shelters
from government.
Osmanabad does not have good infrastructural services. Even though
there is high population, there is an acute shortage of water for
the entire year. The situation is more dangerous in rural areas.
Osmanabad District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 7569.0 Km2
Population in Osmanabad (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 1660311
Male : 864674
Female : 795637
Under 6 population
Total : 199509
Male : 107695
Female : 91814
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 35057
In seeing : 12911
In speech : 2267
In hearing : 2079
In movement : 13648
Mental : 4152
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 178
Sex Ratio Rank : 257
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : A
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 262 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 216 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About Osmanabad District
Osmanabad District is one of the Eight districts of Marathwada
Region of Maharashtra State.Osmanabad town is the district headquarter.Osmanabad
& Bhoom are Revenue Sub-divisional headquarter.
Osmanabad, Tuljapur,Omerga,
Lohara, Kalamb, Bhoom, Vashi and Paranda are the eight blocks/taluka
of the district.
The
district is surrounded by the Balaghat mountain hills. Omerga &
Paranda blocks are situated at plains whereas all other blocks are
surrounded by the Balaghat mountain. The District is located at
an average height of 600 meters from the sea level. Total area of
the district is 7512.4 sq.km.
CLIMATE & RAINFALL
The Climate in the district is primarily dry.
The Dist.receives rains from South-east mansoon. The rainy season
is June to September. Average rainfall is about 600mm. Kallam, Bhoom
& Paranda blocks are declared as Drought Prone blocks.
SOIL
The soil in the district is of two types black &
other of low type.
CROPPING PATTERN
Both Kharif and Rabi crops are taken in the district. Main crop
is jowar, sunflower, gram, Hybrid jawar,Sugarcane, Tur etc. About
5.70 lakh hects. area is treated as cultivable area. Area under
Kharif crop is 3.26 lakh hectares where as rabi crops are sown on
3.47 lakh hectares.
LITERACY RATE
As per 1991 census, the percentage of literates is 54.27. Rural
literacy rate is 51.23% whereas urban literacy rate is 71.06%.
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
Dairy is main agriculture-allied activity in the district.There
are about 850 dairy societies and two dairy federations in the district.
Total milk collection of dist is 34427 Litre per day.There
is total cattle population of 851997 as per 1992 cattle population
census.
ELECTRIFICATION
All towns and villages in the district have been electrified.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
There are 950 primary schools 227 secondary schools.
31 higher secondary schools and 15 colleges. There are two Engineeering
colleges and one Aurvedic college and also one Polytechnic in the
dist. There are five ITI's also.
SELF - HELP GROUPS
Since 1995-96 a self-help Groups(mahila bachat gats)
have been started in all the villages of the district to organise
women for their eventual participation in developments .So far nearly
two thousand groups have been started and functioning (mainly
by ICDS staff and MAVIM) with a saving of nearly Rs. 30 lakhs. Self
help groups functioning is monitored by dept. of ICDS project i.e.
through Anganwadi workers
CLIMATE
The climate of Osmanabad district is generally dry. The rainy
season starts from mid of June and remains till end of September.
From October to November the climate is humid. From mid November
to January it is winter. From February to march the climate is
dry. From April to June it is summer. During summer the temperature
of Osmanabad district is low compared to other district of Marathwada
region. The average rainfall of this district is 730 mm. But the
average rainfall recorded during the year 2002-2003 was 542 mm.
The highest rainfall recorded during the year 2002-2003 was of
Osmanabad Tahsil with 644 mm while the lowest was of Paranda tahsil
with 367 mm. The highest temperature recorded during the year
2002-2003 was 42.1 degree Celsius while lowest was 8.0 degree
Celsius.
LOCATION
Osmanabad district lies in the southern part of state. Most of
the district area is rocky while the remaining part is plain.
The height of district is 600 mm above sea level. Most part of
the district is surrounded by small mountain called "Balaghat".
Bhoom, Washi, Kalamb, Osmanabad & Tuljapur Tahsil lie in the
range of this Balaghat mountain.Some part of the major rivers
like Godawari and Bhima come under this district. The district
is located on east side of Marathwada region within North latitude
17.35 to 18.40 degree and east latitude 75.16 to 76.40 degree.
The district is surrounded by following districts
Solpaur - South-west
Ahmednagar - North-west
Beed - North
Latur - East
South - Bidar & Gulbarga (Karnataka)
The area of district is 7512.4 sq. km out of which 241.4 sq km
is urban area ( 3.21 % of total area ) and 7271.0 sq km is rural
area ( 96.79 % of total area).
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