Social,
Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
Backwardness : 170
Sex Ratio Rank : 407
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : A
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 -2006)
Disability : 50 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 426 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Water : Flouride in Groundwater above permissible limits
Challenges of the district : Our research with local communities
We do not receive clean drinking water. There is
high amount of fluoride in the water. This can be extremely fatal.
Unemployment is a grave issue faced by the youths.
There are about 72 primary health centers in this district. The
facilities we receive are not up to the mark. There are very few
doctors. People are forced to go to other places to get treated.
Brief About Nalgonda District
Located at a distance of 150 kms from Hyderabad,
Nagarjunasagar is an important irrigation dam on river Krishna.
This is the tallest and biggest masonry dam in the world and is
about 150 Km away from the metropolitan city of Hyderabad. It
creates the third largest man-made lake in the world. Apart from
this, some remains of the Buddhist civilization dating back to
the 3rd century A.D, are seen on an island called Nagarjunakonda
located in a man-made lake on the other side of the river Krishna.
These relics of Buddhist civlization found during excavation unveiled
the traces of Mahachaitya, the most sacred of the stupas. An inscription
in Brahmi characters states that the sacred relics of Lord Buddha
lie within the Mahachaitya.
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Panagal
The shrines of Panagal constitute perhaps the
finest examples of the medieval deccan temples. The temple complex
consists of the main shrine dedicated to Siva with the Nandi mandapa
in front. The architecture of the temple is the finest. It has
66 pillars. The four central pillars of the mandapa are highly
ornate at the bottom and, on them, the scenes from the Ramayana
and the Mahabharata are depicted. The perfected-screen pattern
on the flanks in various dancing poses displays the supreme workmanship
accomplished during that period. Dancers and hair styles