| Voice of Jhabua : Mr
Benedict Damor
Jhabua District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 6778.0 Km2
Population in Jhabua (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 1,024,091
Male : 514,830
Female : 509,261
Under 6 population
Total : 207,931
Male : 107,504
Female : 100,427
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 21171
In seeing : 7005
In speech : 1110
In hearing : 1603
In movement : 9859
Mental : 1594
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 3
Sex Ratio Rank : 481
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : D
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 410 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 577 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Water : Flouride in Groundwater above permissible limits
Brief About Jhabua District
Jhabua is a predominantly tribal district located
in the western part of Madhya Pradesh. It is surrounded by Panchamahal
and Baroda districts of Gujrat, Banswara district of Rajsthan and
Dhar and Ratlam districts of Madhya Pradesh. River Narmada forms
the southern boundary of the district. The terrain is hilly, undulating
typically known as "Jhabua hills topography". In this Jhabua hill
topography the difference between the highest and the lowest points
is varies between 20 to 50 meters. But this difference goes on increasing
as we move towards south of Jhabua. In Alirajpur division which
is in the south of Jhabua the areas is almost entire hilly and intersected
by narrow valleys and low Vindhayan ranges covered with jungles.
But most part of Jhabua is without any forest cover because of low
fertility of land and soil erosion even mere existence becomes a
hard problem and with the failure of rains the Bhils take to crime.
Jhabua is sparsely populated area with the total population of 13.94
lakhs according to 2001 census.
The total area is 6793 Sq Kms. There are about
1313 inhabited villages. About 85% of population is tribal while
3% population belongs to Schedule Castes. 47 per cent of the people
live below the poverty line. The literacy rate according to 2001
census is 36.87% with female literacy of only 4%. Thus, Jhabua is
an overwhelmingly tribal and poor district. The district is devoid
of vegetation cover except Katthiwada and other patches and is full
of undulated, hilly areas; The area suffers from poor and skeletal
soils with shallow to very shallow depth and erratic rainfall ,
high temperature .The area comes under Agroclimatic zone No. 12
namely Jhabua hills covering an area of 0.68m ha. ( 1.5 % of geographical
area of MP) .The district has three distinct sub zones namely Petlawad
(Malwa), Jhabua (Low rainfall) and Katthiwada (High rainfall)zones.
Climate is generally moderate and seasons are well
defined. The summers are hot , winters are short and the monsoon
season is generally pleasant. The average rainfall in the district
is about 800mm. Most of the rainfall occurs in monsoon season while
there is also a little of rainfall in winter season
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