Social,
Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
Backwardness : 123
Sex Ratio Rank : 294
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : C
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 333 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 310 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Challenges of the district : Our research
with local communities
High level of corruption in the government schemes.
And unfortunately, most of the people are still ignorant of the
benefits.
Government has allocated many employment programmes for the unemployed
in the district, which hardly reaches them (unemployed).
Least interest is seen in the government officials in developing
the condition of the district.
Brief About Katni District
Katni is conglomeration of culture from three
different cultural states viz. Mahakausal, Bundelkhand, and Baghelkhand.
There are three different stories which reveals why Katni is called
Mudwara. Katni junction is having half circular Mode (turn) from
wagon yard. So people call it “Mudwara” Another story is that
there was a village call Modwar that has been given as a reward
of bravery for cutting Mud (heads). A similar story is about the
British government used to cut heads of Baggies and plunderer
and hang them in squares to afraid people of doing crimes.
Location
Location Katni district is located in the Northeastern
part of Madhya Pradesh it forms the northern district of Jabalpur
commissionerate division. Mudwara was the biggest (areawise) Tahsil
of Jabalpur before katni came as district in 1998. The district
extends from 23 °37’N to 24 °80’ N and from 79 °57’ E to 80 °58’
E. and hight from sea level is 392 m. There are three major rivers
in Mudwara Katni, Chhoti Mahanadi And Umdar and the name katni
of mudwara is given after the Katni River, which is two km away
from mudwara. The shape of this district is roughly oval.
Population
In 1911 the population of Mudwara was around 181699
out of 181699, 15812 people were the urban population. There were
three big village in this Tahsil having more than 2000 population
in 1911 viz. Viajyraghavgad, Bilhari ,Barhi. Out of these Vijayraghavgarh
is Tahsil and recently Barhi is also declared as tahsil. Other
tahsil of katni are Bahoriband, Rithi, Badwara, Dheemarkheda,
and Mudwara As per the census of 1991 population katni district
was 881925 out of which 333373 and 93796 are women’s in rural
and urban area respectively 331044 and 103712 mans in rural and
urban area respectively hence the total population of women and
mans in urban and rural areas are respectively are 684417 ,197588.
The Climate
Climate of katni is average it gains all the seasonal
advantage from it. Average rainfall in katni district is given
here tehsil wise in milimeter.
