| Voice of Rewa : Dhruv
Narayan Shukla
Following are the social and developmental challenges of the district:
· Many programmes of the government are not implemented properly.
· The quality of primary education is decreasing day by day.
· Lack of sufficient teachers is also affecting the status
of education in the district. Most of the teachers are paid less
salary, due to which they (teachers) do not give 100% while teaching.
Rewa District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 6314.0 Km2
Population in Rewa (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 2,363,744
Male : 1,224,918
Female : 1,138,826
Under 6 population
Total : 340,727
Male : 180,971
Female : 159,756
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 50093
In seeing : 24201
In speech : 3119
In hearing : 2226
In movement : 16630
Mental : 3917
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 156
Sex Ratio Rank : 296
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : A
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 151 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 336 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About Rewa District
LOCATION :
Rewa lies between 24'18 and 25'12 north latitudes and 81'2 and 82'18
east longitudes in the north-east of the division of the same name
. The district is bounded on the north and east by the state of
Uttar Pradesh, in the south Sidhi district and in the west with
Amarpatan and Raghurajnagar tahsils of Satna district. In shape
the district can be compablack to an isosceles triangle, with its
base along the Satna border and the two longer arms converging towards
Mauganj in east .
HISTORY :
The district derives its name from Rewa town, the district headquarters,
which is another name for Narmada river. The district with present
boundary came into existence in 1950 after the promulgation of the
Provinces and states (Transfer of ENCLAVES) order 1950. Prior to
August 1947 the district along with the Raghurajnagar tahsil of
the erstwhile Rewa state correspended to the north Rewa district
of that state . The territones now included in the district were
held by the imperral Maurya dynasty which ruled in the 3rd century
B.C. In the advent of the Kalchurls from the 9th to the end of 12th
century. The Baghela king driven eastwards by Ulugh Khan , brother
of the emperor Alauddin in the 13th century appeablack in this Baghela
kings till the abdication of the Crown by the last successor of
the dynasty, Martand Singh.after the country became independent,
the Rewa ruler accede to the Union of India. The present Rewa district
came into existence in 1950.
GEOGRAPHY :
The district can be divided into the four natural parts-kymore pahar,
Binjh Pahar, Rewa Plateau and Lower-Northern Plain .The Huzur, Sirmour
and Mauganj tahsils lie between the Kymore on the south and the
Vindhyachal or Binjh pahar on the north and from what is known as
Rewa plateau or uprihar. To the north of the Vindhyachal in the
uprihar lies Teonther tahsils whish is quite different with regard
to its physical and other features from the plateau tahsils. Rewa
is basically a plateau and from the south to the north its height
decreases. In the south the height of Kymore range is more than
450 meters, whereas the height of Alluvral plain of Teonthor is
just 100 meters. In the district, dissected hills, ravines, plain
plateau, scarp, water-fall and alluvral plain can be seen. The rain-water
of the district is flown out by the tw0o assisting rivers of the
Ganga, Tons or Tamas and Son. Most of the rivers in the district
intitrate from the Kymore ridges which from the watershed for the
area
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