| Voice of Satna : Pawan
Singh
Shortage of water is the main challenge we face. The water filter
plant in our district is not working properly. During summer season
we have to go through lot of challenges to get water.
Unemployment is also on a rise. Satna does have factories but they
employ people coming from other places. They do not give jobs to
locals.
Child labour is also a grueling issue. Government has made schools
for child laborers. Hardly any children come to attend the school
and there is no monitoring.
The SHGs are also not given any training. So they too are not that
aware about their work and they face challenges in getting loans.
Satna District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 7502.0 Km2
Population in Satna (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 2,228,619
Male : 1,156,734
Female : 1,071,885
Under 6 population
Total : 321,819
Male : 168,769
Female : 153,050
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 42803
In seeing : 16710
In speech : 2649
In hearing : 2290
In movement : 16943
Mental : 4211
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 78
Sex Ratio Rank : 227
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 203 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 295 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Water : Flouride in Groundwater above permissible limits
Brief About Satna District
About Satna
History of Satna district is part of the history
of the region known as Baghelkhand, a very large portion of which
was ruled by the treaty state of Rewa, while a small part towards
the west was ruled by feudatory chiefs, holding their States under
sanads given by the British rulers, There were eleven in all; important
ones being Maihar, Nagod, Kothi, Jaso, Sohawal and Baraundha and
the five Chaube Jagirs of Paldeo, Pahra, Taraon, Bhaisundha and
Kamta-Rajula.
The early Budhist books, the Mahabharat etc, connect
the Baghelkhand tract with rulers of the Haihaya, Kalchuri or Chedi
clan, who are believed to have gained sufficient importance sometime
during the third century A.D. Their original habitat is placed on
the Narbada with Mahishmati (identified by some with Maheshwar in
west Nimar district) as the capital; from where they seem to have
been driven eastwards. They had acquired the fort of Kalinjara (a
few miles beyond the border of Satna district, in U.P.), and with
this as base, they extended their dominious over Baghelkhand. During
the fourth and fifth centuries, the Gupta dynasty of Magadha was
paramount over this region as is shown by the records sof the feudatory
chiefs of Uchchakalpa (Unchehra in Nagod tehsil) and the Parivrajak
Rajas of Kot (in Nagod tehsil). The chief stronghold of the Chedi
clan was Kalinjar, and their proudest title was Kalanjaradhishwara
(Lord of Kalanjar). The Kalchuris received their first blow at the
hand of Chandel chief Yashovarmma (925-55), who seized the fort
of Kalinjar and the tract surrounding it. The Kalchuris were still
a powerful tribe and continued to hold most of their possessions
until the 12th century.
The chiefs of Rewas were Baghel Rajputs descended
from the Solanki clan which ruled over Gujrat from the tenth to
the thirteenth century. Vyaghra deo, brother of the ruler of Gujrat,
is said to have made his way into northern India about the middle
of the thirteenth century and obtained the fort of Marpha, 18 miles
north-east of Kalinjar. His son Karandeo married a Kalchuri (Haihaya)
princess of Mandla and received in dowry the fort of Bandhogarh
(now in the tehsil of the same name in Shahdol district), which,
until its destruction in 1597 by Akbar was the Baghel Capital.
In 1298, Ulugh Khan, acting under order of emperor
Alauddin drove the last Baghel ruler of Gujrat from his country
and this is believed to have caused a considerable migration of
the Baghels to Bandhogarh. Until the 15th century the Baghels of
Bandhogarh were engaged in extending their possessions and escaped
the attention of the Delhi kings. in 1498-9, Sikandar Lodi failed
in his attempt to take the fort of Bandhogarh. The Baghel king Ramchandra
(1555-92), was a contemporary of Akbar. Tansen, the great musician,
was in the court of Ramchandra and from their he was summoned by
Akbar to his court. After the death of Birdhabra, Ramchandra's son,
a minor named Vikramaditya acceded to the throne of Bandhogarh.
His accession gave rise to disturbances. Akbar intervened and captured
and dismantled the Bandhogarh fort in 1597 after a seize of eight
months. It is after this that the town of Rewa started gaining in
importance. It is said to have been founded by Raja Vikramaditya
in 1618 (which perhaps means that he undertook the construction
of palaces and other buildings there because the place had already
assumed importance in 1554 when it was held by Jalal Khan son of
emperor Shershah).
In 1803, after the treaty of Bassein, the British
made overtures of alliance to the ruler of Rewa, but the latter
rejected them. In 1812, during the time of Raja Jaisingh (1809-35),
a body of Pindaris raided Mirzapur from Rewa territory. Upon this
Jaisingh was called upon to accede to a treaty, in which he acknowledged
the protection of the British Government, and agreed to refer all
disputes with neighbouring chiefs to their arbitration and to allow
British troops to march through or be cantoned in his territories.
At the mutiny of 1857, Maharaja Raghuraj Singh helped the British
in quelling the uprisings in the neighbouring Mandla and Jabalpur
district, and in Nagod which is now a part of Satna district. For
this, the king was rewarded by restoration to him of the Sohagpur
(Shahdol) and Amarkantak parganas, which had been seized by the
Marathas in the beginning of the century . The rulers of Rewa State
bore the title of 'His Highness' and "Maharaja" and received a salute
of 17 guns. Most of the Raghuraj Nagar and entire Amarpatan tehsil
of the present Satna district were in the Rewa State prior to the
formation of Vindhya Pradesh.
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