| Voice of South Tripura
: Anupam Das

Women literacy is very low. Women are not empowered.
Unemployment is increasing with each passing day.
South Tripura is a rural area and it has no industries around. This
leads to severe unemployment.
In tribal area, the quality of education needs lot of improvement.
There is shortage of teachers.
We face water shortage.
Women walk long distance to fetch water.
South Tripura District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 3140.0 Km2
Population in South Tripura (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 875144
Male : 447124
Female : 428020
Under 6 population
Total : 108805
Male : 55876
Female : 52929
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 14335
In seeing : 6206
In speech : 1257
In hearing : 1523
In movement : 3706
Mental : 1643
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : Does not figure in list of 447 backward
districts
Sex Ratio Rank : 318
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 468 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 200 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD

Brief About South Tripura District
HISTORY OF TRIPURA
The State of Tripura was a princely state, and Maharaja Birbikram
Kishore Manikya Bahadur was the last king. After the death of Maharaja
Birbikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur in May 1947, a Council under the
leadership of his widowed wife Maharani Kanchan Prabha Devi took
over the charge of the administration on behalf of minor prince
Kirit Bikram. The monarchy came to an end on 9th Sept, 1947 and
Tripura was merged with the Indian Union as a part 'C' State, administered
by the Chief Commissioner. Tripura became a Union Territory on 1st
November 1956. The territorial council was formed on 15th August
1959, which was later dissolved and a Legislative Assembly with
a council of ministers was formed in July, 1963. Tripura became
a full fledged state in 1972. Till 31st August 1970 the district
administration was run by one Deputy Commissioner. On 1st September
1970, Tripura was divided into 3 (three) districts, namely, North
Tripura, South Tripura and West Tripura. Later the fourth district
called Dhalai was created which started functioning from 16th April,1995.
HISTORY OF SOUTH TRIPURA DISTRICT
The South Tripura District with its headquarter
at Udaipur was created in 1970. Udaipur is popularly known as the
city of lakes and was the capital of Tripura till 1760 A.D. The
city is famous for its Mata Tripura Sundari Temple which is situated
about 3 km away from Udaipur at Matabari. The temple is one of the
51 Mahapithasthans of India. The legend is that toe of the right
foot of Mata Sati fell, as a result of the cutting of the body of
Mata Sati into pieces by Sudarsan Chakra of Lord Vishnu .
LOCATION AND GEOGRAPHY
The State of Tripura lies approximately between
the lattitudes 22 degrees 56 minutes, and 24 degrees 32 minutes
North and between longitudes 91 degrees 0 minutes and 92 degrees
22 minutes East. South Tripura District is situated approximately
between East longitude 91 degrees 18 minutes and 91 degrees 59 minutes
and between North lattitude 22 degres 56 minutes and 23 degrees
45 minutes. The South Tripura District is bounded on the North by
Dhalai district and West Tripura District, while on the other sides
by international border with Bangladesh. The total geographical
area of South Tripura District is 2624 Sq.km which is about 25%
of the total state area.
CLIMATE
The climate of the District is mostly warm and
is characterized by a humid summer and a dry cool winter with plenty
of rains during July to October. Rainfall is received from the South
-West Monsoon, which normally breaks in the month of May. Hailstorm
generally occurs during the month of April & May, occasionally causing
damage to the field crops. Autumn and Spring are of very short duration.
Average annual rainfall in the district is about 2000 mm and the
temperature varies between a maximum of 35.23° and a minimum of
7.43° Celsius. The variation in temperature is much lower during
the rains than during any other season.
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