Social,
Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
Backwardness : 208
Sex Ratio Rank : 435
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : A
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 -2006)
Disability : 168 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 489 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Water : Flouride in Groundwater above permissible limits
Challenges of the district : Our research with local communities
Following are the social and developmental challenges
of the district:
Awareness among people in educating women in their villagers is
very low. As a result the ratio of women literacy in the district
is very low.
Lack of vocational training to the underprivileged youths in
the district.
Brief About Medak District
Medak District is located in Telangana region
of Andhra Pradesh, India. Sangareddi is the district headquarters
of Medak. The district had a population of 2,670,097 of which
14.36% were urban as of 2001. Other big towns in the Medak district
include Medak, Siddipet, Narsapur, Ramayampet, Gajwel, Narayankhed,
Zaheerabad and Gummadidala.
Medak district is adorned by many temples depicting
fine architectural splendours. They are located in the Bonthapally
(Veerabhadra Swamy Temple, located at 25 km to the north of Hyderabad),
Ismailkhanpet near to Sangareddy (Sapta Prakarauta Bhavani Mata
Temple, located at 35 km to the Hyderabad), Zarasangam, Edupailu
(Kanakadurga Temple, 8 km from Medak town, on the banks of Manjira
river), Nachagiri temples (Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple, 55
km from Hyderabad), Siddipet (Koti Ligeshwara Swamy Temple) to
name a few.
