Social,
Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
Backwardness : Does not figure in list of 447 backward
districts
Sex Ratio Rank : 78
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 -2006)
Disability : 167 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 85 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Brief About Jammu District
Jammu district derives its name from the city
of Jammu which besides being the winter capital of the state,
is known as the city of temples. It is believed that the city
was originally founded by Raja Jamboo Lochan who lived in fourteenth
century B.C. The Raja had gone out one day for hunting when he
happened to witness a tiger and a goat drinking water from one
and the same pond. This extraordinary phenomenon set him thinking
and he decided to build a city at this site so that the strong
and weak could live together in peace and mutual tolerance. Eventually,
he founded the city which came to be known as "Jamboo" after his
own name. With the passage of time and due to its frequent use
the pronunciation of the name got slightly distorted and the city,
came to be known as 'Jammu' as it is called now.
District Jammu falls in sub-mountaineous region
at the foothills of the Himalayas.Shivalik range rises gradually
in the north part of the district and merges with the Indo-Gangetic
plains in the south.Jammu city is at an elevation of 1030 feet
above the sea level.
Jammu is situated on a hillock, on the bank of
river Tawi and is bound by Udhampur district in the north and
northeast , Kathua district in the east and southeast, Pakistan(Sialkote)
in west and Rajauri district and POK (Bhimber) in the northwest.
Its skyline was once dotted with glittering spires of temples.
These spikes are no longer visible as most of these are hidden
behind multi storyed buildings. The city has numerous shrines
for muslims, sikhs & christians also. Jammu also serves as
base camp for the holy shrine of Vaishno Devi. Jammu is also the
Railhead of the state. gree 24' and 75 degree 18', East longitude
and 32 degree 50' and 33 degree 30' North latitude. It is approximately
600 Kms away from National Capital, New Delhi and is linked with
a National Highway.
The temprature varies from cold in winter with
minimum temperature touching even 0.9 degree Centigrade to heat
wave in summers when the temperature shoots upto 46 degree centigrade.
Jammu Distt is spread over an area of 3097 sqkms and has a population
of about 12.5 lakhs as per the estimates of 1991. It is second
largest populated Distt of the state and second largest in terms
of population density and falls under the category 'B'. The literacy
percentage of the Distt is 42.86% in as per 1981 census which
was highest in the state.
The District comprises five tehsils i.e. Jammu,
Samba, R.S.Pura, Akhnoor and Bishnah.The entire district can be
divided into two distinct portions.The area forming north of Jammu-Chhamb
road and Jammu-Pathankot road which is known as Kandi area is
comparatively under-developed and is mostly rainfed. The area
south of these roads is largely fed by canal and tubewells for
irrigation purposes and is relatively more prosperous. As per
the census of 1981,Jammu district consists of 1192 villages out
of which 1054 villages are inhabited. Latest,as per DISNIC SURVEY
conducted during 1994, the number of inhabited villages in the
District reported are 1170.
This Distt. is having a National Airport situated
at Satwari. This Distt serves as the Winter Capital of J &
K state from November to April when all the offices move from
Srinagar to Jammu.
CLIMATE AND RAINFALL
Jammu district has a sub tropical climate with hot and dry climate
in summer and cold climate in winter.Being in the foothills of
the mountains, nights are generally cooler than what they are
in the neighbouring areas of Punjab.Minimum and Maximum temperature
is around 4 Degre Celsius and 47 Degree Celsius respectively.
