| Voice of Surguja : Anchal
Kumar Sinha & Mr. R S Tomar
Anchal Kumar Sinha
Many people in Surguja live below the poverty line.
Malaria is very common in the district, but because of poverty,
people avoid taking medicines. This affects their health further.
Overall, health needs urgent government attention.
People still are illiterate.
Child marriage is still prevalent.
New agricultural equipments and technologies have not been introduced.
Surguja is rich in natural resources; still there are no industries
around. There are no other means of livelihood and unemployment
is a major crisis.
Lack of planning and implementations are causing these lapses and
our district is still backward.
Mr. R S Tomar
Surguja is a tribal district located in the eastern
part of Chhattisgarh. On the positive side, we are benefiting from
the industrialization as well as the coming up of two major thermal
power plants. At the negative end however is the fact that we are
seeing increase in the number of HIV cases, specially women. This
happens because of the regular movement of truckers in the region
– four national highways pass through the district. The health
of the women and the future generation is at risk.
Another major negative is the literacy rate, infact we stand last
in the State. The drop out rate for the primary class is also very
bad. Plus, about 25% to 30% of irrigation land is wasted in the
district.
Surguja District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 15731.0 Km2
Population in Surguja (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 23,61,329
Male : 11,95,145
Female : 11,66,184
Under 6 population
Total : 3,71,891
Male : 1,90,191
Female : 1,81,700
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 36299
In seeing : 15859
In speech : 3047
In hearing : 2490
In movement : 11238
Mental : 3665
Brief About Surguja District
Location
Surguja district is located in the northern part of Chhattisgarh State
of India.
Borders of Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa and Madhya
Pradesh States
are adjoining to the district. This district has over extension
between south-eastern part of Vindhyachal-Baghelkhand region
of peninsular India. It lies between 23o 37’ 25’’ To 24o 6’ 17’’ north latitude
and 81o 34’40’’
To 84o 4’40’’ east longitude 244.62 km long east to west
and 167.37 broad norths to south, this land has as area of about 16359
Sqr Km.
History :
The presence of various temples stone carvings and archaic remains
show the evidence of existence of this region before Christ(B.C.).
In 4Th B.C. Before the arrival of maurya dynasty,this region
was in the Lord of Nanda clan.
Before 3 B.C. this region was divided into tiny parts and their headman
after quarrel among themselves.
Then a Rajputa kings belongs to Rakshal clan in palamu district (Bihar)
attacked and taken in his control. In 1820 Amar singh was the Kings
of Surguja state who had been crowned as “Maharaja” in 1826. In 1882
Raghunath Sharan Singh Deo had taken his control over Surguja state
who has been conferred as “Maharaja” by Lord Daffariu. After
the contemporary victory of India he established Edward Middle School,
Post Office ,Telegraph Office ,Medical stores ,jail and courts in
Ambikapur capital of Surguja.
According to holy books Lord Rama had visited Surguja during his
fourteen years of "Vanwas" period. There are many places
in connection to epic of Ramayana. Many places are named after Lord
Rama, Laxmana and Goddess Sita, they are Ramgarh, Sita-Bhengra and
Laxmangarh. Verses of Poet Kalidas who wrote "Ramayan"
are found at the Sita-Bhengra cave.
Major
population comprises tribal population. Among these primitive tribes
are Pando and Korwa , who are still living in forest, the Pando tribes believes themselves as the member
of "Pandav" clan of epic Mahabharat. Korwa tribes believes to be member of
"Kauravs" of Mahabharata.
The Mahanadi
Basin :
This drainage system is called as southward river system . The
general slope of west Surguja is towards south and about 25% drainage
comes in this system. Southerly rivers of district are the Hasdo
and Gej, which forms the part of the Mahanandi Drainage System.
This drainage system is called as southward river system . The
general slope of west Surguja
is towards south and about 25% drainage comes in this system.
Southerly rivers of district are the Hasdo and Gej, which forms
the part of the Mahanandi Drainage System.
The Kanhar :
This river rises from Gidha-Dhodha
on the Khudia plateau in jashpur tahsil of raigarh district and flowing northward ,forms
the eastern boundary of district with palamau district of bihar
state. This river flows for 100 Kms in district. It is fed by small
tributaries – Suria,Chana,Sendur and Kursa on it's left bank
and Galphulla, Semarkhar, Riger and the Cherna nallah on it's right
bank .
A number of waterfalls are located along the track of the river.
Pavai fall near Kothali village (Balrampur) is of about 61 meters.
Hydro-electricity is proposed here since last two decades.
The
Rihand :
This river also referred as
Rend or Rehar , rises in the region south west of the Mainpat plateau,
which is about 1,100 meters above mean sea level, from Matiranga
hills. The river flows north roughly through the central part of
the district for 160 Kms. The Rihand and it's tributaries form a
fertile plain in the
central district stretching around Ambikapur
A medium irrigation
project is working on Ghungutta river, since 1981, near Darima
Air Strip under taken by World Bank ,Which is about 15 kms
from Ambikapur . The Mahan is a perennial river ,on which
medium Multipurpose project is under consideration by Central water
Comission.
Climate
The climate of district
is characterized by a hot summer and well distributed rainfall during
the monsoon season. With its general monsoonal character, the region
according to thornthwait's classification falls in the Tropical
Thermal belt assigns it the grassland type character.
According to trewartha's
classification the Surguja falls in AW class which is based on temperature
and vegetation. The symbol AW denotes Tropical Swanah region. The
chief feature of this climate is long dry period average monthly
temperature rising over 18 0C, through maximum summer
temperature may even go up to 46 0C. In winter the temperature
not go below 18 0C .The monsoon bring sufficient rains.
The chief determinants of climate in the district are:
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