Social,
Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
Backwardness : 153
Sex Raio Rank : 39
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 -2006)
Disability : 228 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 298 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Challenges of the district : Our research with local communities
About 95% population of the district are depended
on agriculture. However the experience of drought like situation
has created lot of trouble for the farmers.
Agriculture related occupation like animal husbandry etc is also
affected because of drought.
Drought has lead to less availability of safe and pure drinking
water. This has lead to many water born diseases in the district.
Brief About Jalaun District
JALAUN, a town and district of British India,
in the Allahabac division of the United Provinces. Pop. of town
(1901), 8573 Formerly it was the residence of a Mahratta governor,
but never the headquarters of the district, which are at Orai.
The DISTRICT OF JALAUN has an area of 1477 sq.
m. It lies entirely within the level plain of Bundelkhand, north
of the hil country, and is almost surrounded by the Jumna and
its tribu taries the Betwa and Pahuj. The central region thus
enclosec is a dead level of cultivated land, a'most destitute
of trees, ant sparsely dotted with villages. The southern portion
present almost one unbroken sheet of cultivation. The boundary
river form the only interesting feature in Jalaun. The river Non
flows through the centre of the district, which it drains bj innumerable
small ravines instead of watering. Jalaun ha suffered much from
the noxious kans grass, owing to the sprea of which many villages
have been abandoned and their land thrown out of cultivation.
Pop. (1901), 399,726, showing ar increase of
i %. The two largest towns are Kunch (15,8* and Kalpi (10,139).
The district is traversed by the line of th Indian Midland railway
from Jhansi to Cawnpore. A small par of it is watered by the Betwa
canal. Grain, oil-seeds, cotto and ghi are exported. In early
times Jalaun seems to have been the home of two Rajput clans,
the Chandels in the east and the Kachwahas in he west. The town
of Kalpi on the Jumna was conquered for the jrinces of Ghor as
early as 1196. Early in the i4th century the Jundelas occupied
the greater part of Jalaun, and even succeeded n holding the fortified
post of Kalpi. That important possession svas soon recovered by
the Mussulmans, and passed under the way of the Mogul emperors.
Akbar's governors at Kalpi naintained a nominal
authority over the surrounding district; and the Bundela chiefs
were in a state of chronic revolt, which ulminated in the war
of independence under Chhatar Sal. On he outbreak of his rebellion
in 1671 he occupied a large province o the south of the Jumna.
Setting out from this basis, and .ssisted by the Mahrattas, he
reduced the whole of Bundelkhand. 3n his death he bequeathed one-third
of his dominions to his Vlahratta allies, who before long succeeded
in annexing the whole )f Bundelkhand. Under Mahratta rule the
country was a prey ;o constant anarchy and intestine strife. To
this period must )e traced the origin of the poverty and desolation
which are still conspicuous throughout the district. In 1806 Kalpi
was made over to the British, and in 1840, on the death of Nana
Gobind ias, his possessions lapsed to them also. Various interchanges
of territory took place, and in 1856 the present boundaries were
substantially settled. Jalaun had a bad reputation during the
Mutiny. When the news of the rising at Cawnpore reached K.alpi,
the men of the 53rd native infantry deserted their officers, and
in June the Jhansi mutineers reached the district, and began their
murder of Europeans. The inhabitants everywhere revelled in the
licence of plunder and murder which the Mutiny lad spread through
all Bundelkhand, and it was not till Septem-Der 1858 that the
rebels were finally defeated.
