| Voice of Lalitpur :
Saurabh Singh
Unemployment is the biggest challenge
We receive very low rainfall. This leads to water shortage.
Lalitpur is a famine prone region.
The quality of education is very poor in government schools.
Women literacy is also very low.
People are ignorant about various things. People lack awareness
about various government schemes and policies.
Lalitpur District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Analysis Geographical Area : 5039.0 Km2
Population in Lalitpur (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 1,218,002
Male : 639,392
Female : 578,610
Under 6 population
Total : 206,018
Male : 107,644
Female : 98,374
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 26782
In seeing : 16732
In speech : 1292
In hearing : 789
In movement : 6583
Mental : 1386
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 146
Sex Ratio Rank : 109
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C (HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 355 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 512 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About Lalitpur District
UNDELKHAND - A GENERAL INFORMATION
THE PRESENT REGION OF BUNDELKHAND LIES BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY
23.10 DEGREES AND 26.27 DEGREES (NORTH) LATITUDE AND 78.4
DEGREES AND 81.34 DEGREES (EAST) LONGITUDE, AND COMPRISES FOUR DISTRICTS
OF CHITRAKUT DIVISION, THREE DISTRICTS OF JHANSI DIVISION, FIVE
DISTRICTS OF SAGAR DIVISION AND ONE DISTRICT OF GWALIOR DIVISION.
THE CULTURAL BUNDELKHAND, HOWEVER, SPREADS BEYOND THIS REGION AND
TOUCHES PARTIALLY SEVERAL OF THE ADJACENT DISTRICTS, NAMELY BHIND,
GWALIOR, MORENA, SHIVPURI, GUNA, NARSINGHPUR, HOSHANGABAD, JABALPUR
AND SATNA ETC.
LALITPUR DISTRICT
CARVED OUT AS A DISTRICT IN THE YEAR 1974 LALITPUR
IS REALY NOT ONLY THE HEARTLAND BUT ALSO HEARTSHAPED DISTRICT OF
BUNDELKHAND REGION. THIS DISTRICT LIES BETWEEN LATITUDE 24 DEGREE
11 MINUTS AND 25 DEGREE 13 MINUTS (NORTH) AND LONGITUDE 78
DEGREE 11 MINUTS AND 79 DEGREE 0 MINUTS (EAST) AND IS BONDED BY
DISTRICT JHANSI IN THE NORTH, DISTRICT SAGAR IN THE SOUTH, TIKAMGARH
AND CHHATARPUR DISTRICTS IN THE EAST AND SHIVPURI AND GUNA DISTRICTS
IN THE WEST. THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREA OF THE DISTRICT IS 5,039 SQ.
KM.
TOPOGRAPHY
THE AREA IS GENERALLY ROCKY. THE HIGHEST GROUND
IS IN THE EXTREME SOUTH WITH SCRAPS OF THE VINDHYAN PLATEAU
, RUNNING FROM THE BETWA IN SOUTH - EASTERLY DIRECTION AND
GRADUALLY BREAKING UP INTO A CONFINED MASS OF HILLS, PARTS
OF WHICH APPROACH A HEIGHT OF 650 M ABOBE MEAN SEA LEVEL. THE NORTH
OF THE SCRAP, UNDULATING PLAIN OF BLACK SOIL INTERRUPTED WITH SCATTERED
HILLS AND SCOURED BY NUMEROUS DRAINAGE CHANNALS, STRETCHES NORTH
BEYONDS THE TOWN OF LALITPUR AND GRADUALLY BECOMES MORE ROCKY. LOW
RED HILLS OF GRANITOID ROCK THEN APPEAR WITH LONG RIDGES RUNNING
FROM SOUTH- WEST TO NORTH- WEST.
MOST OF THE AREA IS BIENG DRAINED BY RIVER JAMNI
AND ITS TRIBUTARIES WHICH FORM ITS EASTERN BOUNDRY, SEPARATING IT
FROM TIKAMGARH DIATRICT. RIVER BETWA FROMS THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN
BOUNDRY AND DRAINS THE WESTERN PART OF THE DISTRICT. THE SOUTH EASTERN
PART IS PARTLY DRAIND BY DHASAN RIVER. IN GENERAL THE SLOPE IS TOWARDS
THE NORTH.
THE HILLS IN THE SOUTH GENERALLY OCCUR IN SMALL
GROUPS OR IN CONTINUOS NARROW CHAIN RUNNING PARALLEL TO EACH OTHER
FROM NORTH-EAST TO SOUTH-WEST, THE RIDGES BEING MOSTLY BARE AND
SHARP. THE SLOPS ARA STILL COMPARATIVELY MORE COVERED WITH SCRUB
JUNGLES.
THE PLATEAU IS INTERSECTED BY WIDE VALLEYS PARTICULARLY
IN THE SOUTH WEST; AND THE ENTIRE TRACT, ONCE COVERRED WITH VEGETATION,
LOOKS BARREN THESE DAY. MINING HAS AFFECTED THE WHOLE AREA CONSIDERABLY.
FROM THE BASE OF THE PLATEAU TO THE TOWN OF LALITPUR
THERE STRETCHES A BLACK SOIL PLAIN WHICH IS DISSECTED BY A NYMBER
OF SEASONAL RIVULETS AND IS CHARACTERIZED BY AN UNDULATING TOPOGRAPHY.
THE PRINCIPAL RIVERS WHICH TRAVERSE THE AREA ARE THE SHAHZAD, THE
SAZNAM AND THE JAMNI.
THERE IS AN UNEVEN RED SOIL TRACT MARKED BY THE
EXISTENCE OF NUMEROUS BARE OR ROCKY HILLS DOTTED WITH SCRUB UPTO
THE NORTHERN PART OF LALITPUR AND MEHRONI TEHSILS. IT IS ALSO TRAVERSED
BY LONG QUARTZ REEFS AND DIVERSIFIED BY LINES OF ROCKY HILLS.
The Soils
The soils of Lalitpur are also representative of
Bundelkhand comprising all the four varieties. The soils here have
developed from the Vindhyan ranges of rocks which in this area are
formed of gneiss, granite, quartzite and at times sandstone, limestone
and slate.
The soils of the district are divided into two
broader categories.
1. Black and 2. Red soil groups.
The four varieties of soils are derived from these
two groups which are as follows :
1. Bundelkhand Type - 1 : is under the red soil
group and locally known as rakar which is also of two types : one
known as Bundelkhand 1A which occurs mainly around the rocky ridges
in the southern most part of this district while the latter, classified
as Bundelkhand 1B, mostly occurs in the northern part of the district.
These are not very appropriate for farming but only suitable for
afforestation. These soils are also subject to severe hazards of
erosion; therefore need to be conserved through embankments.
2. Bundelkhand Type - 2 : or parua. it is also
a red soil subdivided as Bundelkhand type 2A and Bundelkhand type
2B. The 2B-soil is found in the central tract of Lalitpur district.
This is sandy loam in texture, mature in profile and light to dark
grey in colour. This loves water and also needs irrigation during
farming.
3. Bundelkhand Type 3 : This is black soil group
and consists of two kinds, The type 3A is locally known as kabar
and the type 3B is the mar. It resembles very much the black cotton
soils as found in central India. The kabar soil which is a coarse
grained loam in texture and mature in profile, has high clayey element.
It occurs mostly in the southern part of tehsil Lalitpur and Mahroni.
This is a very productive soil but needs very careful and timely
management; otherwise it becomes difficult to handle.
The mar soils are found around Balabehat in the
southern part of tehsil Lalitpur. It is highly clayey in texture,
mature in profile and black in colour. This is also a water retaining
soil like the kabar but low in coarse sand and soulble salts. The
drainage is poor on these soils and management has to be very careful
like that in kabar soils.
A strip of alluvial soil is also found in the western
part of Lalitpur district.
The climate of the district is the Central India
type sub-tropical and may be characterised by a very hot dry summer
and cold winter. Like other districts of the Bundelkhand region,
this also shows four distinct seasons. Summer being from March to
mid-June, Monsoon from mid-June to September, post-monsoonal transition
between October and November while the winter months are December
to February.
GEOLOGY
Geologically, Lalitpur is an interesting
district as it comprises the rocks varying in age from 50 to 3000
million years. Except the southern fringe where the rocks belonging
to Bijawar group, Vindhyan group and Deccan traps are exposed, the
whole part of the district is occupied by the geological succession
of the area as follows :
1. Deccan Trap : Small outlines of Basalt
with intra-trappean beds occur at places in the southern part in
the form of flat topped hills. Soil, sand and alluvium have covered
major parts of the terrain.
2. Vindhyan group of rocks : Vindhyans comprising
sandstones and quartzite are exposed at the southern fringe of the
district and forms great Vindhyan scarps.
3. Bijawar Rocks : Bijawar consists of limestone,
dolomite, quartzite, shale, sandstone, banded hematite quartzite,
basic dykes and lavas belonging to Bijawar group are exposed in
a narrow zone in the south of the granitoid complex. The Bijawars
are folded to form a large West-South-West plunging synclinorium,
the southern limb of which is concealed below the Vindhyan rocks.
The northern limb is traversed by several strike and oblique faults.
4. Dykes and veins : The granite activities
were followed by intrusions of aplite, pegmatite diorite, granite
porphyry, quartz reefs, dolerite and secondary veins of quartz and
epidote. Aplite and pegmatite seen as minor veins are present in
all the granite rocks. The porphyries particularly common in the
northern part of the district (near Jamalpur-Talbehat etc.) generally
trends in ENE-WSW direction. These are cut by reefs of quartz which
are trending in NE-SW direction. The dolerites are trending in NW-SE
direction.
5. Granite gneiss, migmatite and granite
: The granite gneisses and migmatite are closely associated with
schistose rocks and exhibit minor folding. Medium grained granite
gneiss which is porphyroblastic at places form low mounds in the
area. The leucocratic fine to medium grained granite represents
intrusive phase and forms bold hills.
6. Meta-sedimentaries and meta basites :
which occur as enclaves within the granitic rocks forms good exposures
in Mehroni Tehsil. The meta-sedimentaries mainly comprise of quartzite,
quartzose schist and quartz sericite schist. The meta-besites are
represented by peridotite, serpentinite, pyroxinite and amphibolite
rocks. The scattered small exposures of these rocks are also found
at many other places.
MINERALS
Pyrophyllite and Diaspore : These have been worked
out at Tori-Bar and also at Patha area of Lalitpur district.
Iron Ore : To be used as sponge Iron, this ore
has been located in Barwar-Girar area and also at Solda.
Base Metals : Extensive mineralization of
copper in linear zones of weathering and state-bound lead-zinc has
been investigated by the Directorate of Geology and Mining in the
lower members of the Bijawar group near Sonrai.
Uranium : Uranium-Bitumen mineralization
has been established in the upper parts of the Sonrai formation
and is confined to brecciated zones with calcopyrite, galena, sphalerite,
coffinite, bitumen quartz and calcite.
Glass Sand : Large exposures of Dhandhraul
quartzite have been reported to exist in the Murari and Talbehat
forest reserve. This is a sedimentary quartzite often occuring in
friable belts on gently sloping ground under a covering of soil.
GSI (Geographical Survey of India) has analysed these samples which
could be used for the manufacture of plate-glass, sheet glass and
white bottles.
Lime Stone : A highly siliceous lime stone
is found near Piprat in smaller quantity
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