| Voice of Barwani : Ashish
Reddy
Barwani District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 5422.0 Km2
Population in Barwani (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 1,385,659
Male : 699,578
Female : 686,081
Under 6 population
Total : 261,103
Male : 134,565
Female : 126,538
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 19874
In seeing : 9754
In speech : 1226
In hearing : 1195
In movement : 6128
Mental : 1571
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
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Backwardness : 21
Sex Ratio Rank : 422 (Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C (HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 426 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 564 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About Barwani District
District Barwani was formed on 25th May 1998. It
was carved out of West-Nimar, Khargone district. Barwani is situated
on the southern side of Madhya Pradesh as well as holy river Narmada.
District is surrounded by Satpuda (in South) and Vindhyachal (in
North) forest ranges. State of Maharashtra in South, Gujrat in far
West, district Khargone on the East and district Dhar on the North
form boundries of Barwani. District is triangular in shape with
the highest point in West. Area of the district is 3665 sq. Km.
with eastern boundary 363 Kms and southern 273 Kms.
Town Barwani was the capital of old Barwani State
before 1948. This small State was spared by British, Moughals and
Marathas because of its rocky tarrain and less productive soil.
The Rana dynesty ruled the state throught the history. The history
of this dynesty goes back to 13th century.
Town Barwani was also know as Badnagar and Siddha
Nagar. The place is also famous for Chool Giri, Jain pilgrimage
centre of Bawangaja
District Barwani has 2 Sub Divisions - Barwani
& Sendhawa, 6 Tahsils - Barwani, Sendhawa, Pansemal, Niwali, Thikari
and Rajpur, 7 Developmental Blocks - Barwani, Pati, Sendhawa, Pansemal,
Niwali, Thikari and Rajpur. There are 4 assembly constotuencies
- Anjad, Barwani, Sendhawa & Rajpur. First two are in Dhar parliamentary
constituency and rest two are in Khargone parliamentary constituency.
District has 384 panchayats and 646 villages -
576 revenue & 70 forest. Out of these villages, 560 are inhabitate
and 16 are un-inhabitate. There are 2 Nagar Palikas - Barwani, sendhawa
and 4 Nagar Panchayats - Pansemal, Khetiya, Rajpur, Anjad in the
district.
Collector : 07290 222712 / 222713
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