| Voice of Gondia : Vishwajeet
Das
Gondia District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 5425.0 Km2
Population in Gondiya (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 1322331
Male : 662524
Female : 659807
Under 6 population
Total : 136116
Male : 70015
Female : 66101
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 26730
In seeing : 11832
In speech : 1149
In hearing : 1809
In movement : 9118
Mental : 2822
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 75
Sex Ratio Rank : 522
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 356 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : NA
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Water : Flouride in Groundwater above permissible limits
District affected by Left Wing Extremism
Brief About Gondia District
Gondia district was carved out by division of Bhandara
district. Gondia district is situated on North-Eastern side
of Maharashtra state having state borders of Madhya Pradesh and
Chattisgarh.
The total population of the District is 1200151.
The made and female population is 598447 and 601704 respectively.
The SC and ST population in the district is 355484 and 309822.
The literacy rate of district is 67.67%.
This is underdeveloped district and most of land
is covered with forest. Paddy is main agriculture produce.
The other agriculture produce in the district are Jawar, Linseed,
wheat, tur. The main profession of people is farming.
There is no large scale industry in the entire
district due to this district is economically backward. There
are many rice mills in the district as paddy is the main agriculture
produce here. Gondia city is popularly known as RICE CITY
due to large number of rice mills.
The district is divided inot two subdivisions namely
Gondia and Deori. Each subdivisiion has 4 talukas, 556 Grampanchayat
954 revenue villages exist in the district. The district
area is divided into six legislative assembly constituencies namely
Gondia, Tiroda, Goregaon, Amgaon, Lakhandur and Sakoli. Lakhandur
and Sakoli constituencies has an area of Gondia and Bhadara district.
Basically district is divided into 8 talukas and
8 Panchayat Samiti. Only two mucipalities are existing at
Gondia and Tiroda.
Wainganga river is the largest and most important
river. Rivers like Bagh, Chulbandh, Gadhavi and Bavanthadi are the
tributaries of river Vainganga.
Collector - Office - 07182 26749 /
Collector - Residence - 07182 26748 / 20724
Location
Gondia district lies at lattitudes 20.39 and 21.38 North and longitudes
89.27 to 82.42 east. The adjoining districts to Gondia are on northen
side Balaghat district of Madhya Pradesh and on eastern sideRajnandgaon
district of Chattisgarh state. To the south and west are Chandrapur
district and Bhandara district of Maharashtra. The district headquarter
is situated at Gondia situated on Mumbai- Calcutta railway route
which is 1060 Km from Mumbai, capital of state.
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