| Voice of Sindhudurg
: Sachin Desai
Sindhudurg is very rich in its bio mass and bio-diversity.
People are encroaching in the forests and are settling down.
Soil erosion is a big issue which needs assistance.
Environment degradation is rampant
The quality of education is not very high.
The available natural resources are not being properly utilized.
Sindhudurg
District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 5207.0 Km2
Population in Sindhudurg (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 848868
Male : 416695
Female : 432173
Under 6 population
Total : 68637
Male : 35930
Female : 32707
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 12808
In seeing : 3932
In speech : 1328
In hearing : 785
In movement : 4094
Mental : 2669
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 336
Sex Ratio Rank : 572
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 490 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : NA
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About Sindhudurg District
Sindhudurg is an administrative district in the
state of Maharashtra in India. The district headquarters are located
at Oras. The district occupies an
area of 5207 km²
and has a population of 861,672 (as of 2001).
Location Situated in the laps of the southern Sahyadris,
Sindhudurg is bordered on the north by Ratnagiri and on the south
by the state of Goa. To it's west is the Arabian Sea and to it's
east, across the Sahyadris, is Kolhapur district.
People The people of Sindhudurg mostly speak Malvani,
though Marathi, English and Portuguese are also spoken. The populated
and developed cities in Sindhudurg include, Sawantvadi, Kudal, Oras,
Kankavli, Devgarh, Vengurla and Malvan. Smaller towns include Nerur,
Katta, Kalse and the hill resort Amboli.
The districts of Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg
of Maharashtra are Enquiry Form formed by a narrow belt of low land
lying between the Arabian Sea and the Sahyadris. Though rugged and
hilly as a whole, the districts which are more commonly known as
the Konkan, have many characteristic features. Near the Sahyadris
the valleys are more open and the hills rugged than towards the
western sea coast where they are more or less flat plateaus made
barren in some parts by a capping of laterite rock, cleft by narrow
steep-sided valleys and ravines through which rivers and streams
find their way from the Sahyadris to the sea. The coast is almost
uniformly rocky and dangerous in most places with a few sandy shores.
The Konkan coast, which is dominated by rocky shores has many geomorphological
features like the dunes, ripple marks, micro drainage patterns during
low tides, wave cut caves, platforms, cliffs, gorges, honeycomb
weathering, etc. The coastal areas are home to some of the richest,
most diverse and fragile of natural resources.
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