| Voice of Koraput : Mr.
Garoda
Koraput district is located in the south-eastern region of Orissa.
High child mortality rate, illiteracy are two of the main challenges
of the district.
Due to poverty and lack of various government facilities reaching
out to the people many of the tribals in the district are suffering.
Less income generation activities have lead to rise in unemployment
in the district.
Koraput District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 8807.0 Km2
Population in Koraput (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 1,376,934
Male : 677,864
Female : 699,070
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 26625
In seeing : 15800
In speech : 1644
In hearing : 2078
In movement : 5033
Mental : 2070
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 10
Sex Ratio Rank : 509
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : B
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 359 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 580 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About Koraput District
ORIGIN
OF THE NAME OF THE DISTRICT
The
district of Koraput derives its name from its headquarters the present
town of Koraput. In ancient times when the Nalas were ruling over
this tract, Pushkari near modern Umarkot was the capital city.
In the medieval period Nandapur developed as the capital under
the Silavamsi kings and sometimes under
theKoraput
with her rolling mountains, undulating meadows, roaring rapids, enchanting
waterfalls and terraced valleys leading up to verdant hills, feasts
the eyes as few other districts can.
Koraput with her
golden autumn and misty mornings of the monsoon months, her painted spring, and slumbering summer and her
winter ranging from fierce to mild provides varieties of living
in different seasons which is rare elsewhere. Here in spring
nature and man vie with each other to make living joyous. Koraput
with her people who have been living as they lived many thousand years
ago and yet accepting newcomers of the latest development of homo-sapiens,
with her tribes who enjoy the joys of life today as they ever did
before, living in their hamlets hidden in arbours in picturesque valleys,
provide education and entertainment for the Anthropologist which
few other regions provide elsewhere. Indeed Koraput is a museum of
old and new in nature and human endeavour. Human endeavour surpasses
itself by producing power from falling water, by manufacturing
intricate machines and consumer goods and welcoming into the
district and providing homes and occupation for many thousands
of persons displaced from their homes, who till then had no hope of
calling any place a home of their own. Koraput has both plant life
and wild life which would give years of study to the Biologist and
limitless adventure for the hunter. “Had I been merely a lover of
fine sceneries (of wild life and of mankind) I would have felt little
desire to seek elsewhere its gratification”.kings
of the Solar dynasty. Viravikrama
Deo of the Solar dynasty shifted his headquarters to
Jeypore about the middle of the 17th century and this town
prospered as the capital. Koraput was chosen
by the British in 1870 for better health prospects. The origin of
the name of Koraput is obscure. There are several theories, none of
which is convincing Accroding
to Mr. R.C.S.Bell the
name of the town is ‘Kora-Putti’ or”the hamlet of the nux-vomica”
and it is derived presumably from a tree or trees that must at one
time have been prominent near the site. But today not a singly tree
of nux-vomica is to be found near about the town of Koraput and
so the assumption or Mr. Bell is open to question.
Accroding
to second theory, Koraput is corrupted form of ‘Karaka pentho’ Karaka
literally mans ‘hail-stone’.
It
is also believed that one ‘Khora Naiko’ laid foundation of the village
during the time of Nandapur kings. He hailed probably from Ranpur
and served under the Nandapur kings in the Militia, and for his
faithful and meritorious services he has permitted to establish
this village which was named after him as Khora Putu, and later
on the name has beenabbreviated to ‘Koraput’.
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