Districts of India : Panchkula

Panchkula faces lot of environment related issues. The other main issue we face is, in the mornings, when we go for morning walks there is a huge stench engulfing the road. Due to lack of toilets the migrant laborers defecate in the open. This emits fouls smell and the roads become inaccessible. There are lots of vacant lands that are not well maintained. Due to the mess lot of reptiles have crept in which can be fatal.

Panchkula District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 898.0 Km2
Population in Panchkula (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 558890
Male : 298919
Female : 259971

Disabled population
Total disabled population : 9740
In seeing : 4618
In speech : 646
In hearing : 522
In movement : 2705
Mental : 1249

Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis )
Backwardness : 407
Sex Ratio Rank : 13
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 -2006)
Disability : 518 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 138 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD

SALIENT FEATURES OF DISTRICT PANCHKULA

Panchkula is the newly formed 17th district of Haryana State. It comprises of two sub divisions and two Tehsils named Panchkula and Kalka. It has 264 villages out of which 12 villages are un-inhabited and 10 villages wholly merged in towns or treated as census towns according to census 1991. There are four towns in the district named Kalka, Panchkula, Pinjore and H.M.T. Pinjore. Total population of the district is 319398 out of which 173557 are males and 145841 are females. The literate males percentage in the district is 61.8 where as females are 46.0 percent in the district.

PHYSICAL ASPECTS
Panchkula is surrounded by Himachal Pardesh in the north and north east by Ambala district in the east by Kurukshetra district in the south and Punjab and Union Territory of Chandigarh in the West. Panchkula district has a sub tropical continental monsoon climate where we find seasonal rhythm, hot summer, cool winter, unreliable rainfall and great variation in temperature. In winter frost sometimes occurs during December and January. The district also receives occasional winter rains from the western disturbance. The rainfall is generally restricted to rolling plain in north and northeast a doom in Pinjore area and flood plain along the Ghaggar river. Morni hills constitute the highest point of the district as well as of Haryana. The important rivers/streams of the district are Ghaggar, Sirsa nadi, Kaushalya etc. Generally the slope of the district is from north east to south west.in which direction most of the nadi/rivers rainfed torrents flow down and spread much gravels and pebbles in their beds. Only the Sirsa Nadi, in Kalka Tehsil, flows towards northwest through a u arrow halt of shivalik tract. The district is David of any perennial river. The soils in the district are mainly light loam (seoti) piedmont (Ghar and Kandi), Swalik (pahar), silticlay (Naili and chhachhra Dakar) etc.

The under ground water in the district occurs under confirmed and semi-confirmed conditions which is generally fresh and suitable for domestic and irrigation purposes. The under ground water level is generally high in the southern parts and low in north and northeast which is hilly tract. The district lies in a region where earthquakes of moderate to high intensity had been felt in the fast. Being situated to Himalayan boundary fault zones it is prone to earthquakes. The district has a favorable climate for the growth of rich and abundant vegetation due to reasonably good rainfall and elevation. Shisham (Dalbergia Sissoo), Kikar (Acacia nilotica) and Mango (Mangifera indica) are the important tree species grown in the plains Safeda (eucalyptus hybrid) has been introduced since 1963 in forest areas as well as on private lands. The natural vegetation is mainly of forest growth and its degradation stages. Tropical dry deciduous forests and sub-tropical forests are found here.