Social,
Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
Backwardness : 83
Sex Ratio Rank : 366
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : A
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 407(Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : NA
Minority : Yes
Challenges of the district : Our research with local communities
Hingoli District (10 years old) is one of the newest
districts of Maharashtra. It faces drought like situation once every
two years. However, this year’s (2009) drought situation was
more disastrous than any.
Less job opportunities have given rise to unemployment in the
district. The sex ratio of the district is also very low. Due
to lack of colleges children have to travel to another district
to get quality education.
Brief About Hingoli District
Hingoli is situated at the nothern part of Marathwada
in Maharashtra. Borders of Hingoli are surrounded by Akola and
Yeotmal in northen side,Parbhani in western side and Nanded at
south-eastern side.
Latitude Of Hingoli District is 19.43 N and Longitude
is 77.11 E
Marathwada was initially under Nizam's regime.
Hingoli former Taluka place of Parbhani district was there therefore
part of Nizam's regime. It was actually Nizam's military base
as it was border place with vidhrabha.In that era military troops,
hospitals, veterinary hospital were in operation from Hingoli.
Residents of Hingoli had experienced two big wars between Tipu
Sultan and Maratha in 1803 and in 1857 Nagpurkar and Bhosale.
Being a military base the city was one of the important place
of the Hydrabad State. Some of the names like Pultan, Risala,
Tophkhana, Pensionpura, Sadar Bazaar are famous today.
In the 1956 the post independence when the state
were reconstructed Marathwada was attached to Mumbai State and
in 1960 Hingoli became part of the Maharashtra State as part of
Parbhani district.
Later on 1St may 1999 Hingoli district came in
to existence by division of Parbhani.
