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Welcome to Gondia
Gondia District in Census 2011
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

Census 2001
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 26730
In seeing : 11832
In speech : 1149
In hearing : 1809
In movement : 9118
Mental : 2822

 

 
Social, Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
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

Challenges of the district : Our research with local communities

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.
 
Voice of Gondia NGO
How we have chosen the above NGO ?
From our database of 50 000 NGOs, we have randomly picked up NGOs for each district, so that we give opportunity for any NGO to share their concerns for the district.

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During 2013-14, we plan to talk to 3 to 5 NGOs from each district, including our set of recommended NGOs, to get an overall perspective of the challenges of the district.


NGO Database for this district
Total NGOs  
FCRA NGOs  
FCRA NGOs (1 crore plus)*  
Recommended NGOs  
* NGOs which received over Rs 1 crore FCRA donations in 2011-12
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