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 : 210
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : A
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 563 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 28 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
Challenges of the district : Our research
with local communities
In Mokokchung, government should concentrate in
uplifting the women.
Women are ignorant about their rights.
Women literacy is very low.
Widows of this district face lot of hardships.
Unemployment is a big challenge.
Brief About Mokokchung District
Mokokchung, one of the districts in Nagaland, the Home of the
Ao Naga tribe. It covers an area of 1,615 sq km. It is bounded by
Assam to its north, Wokha to its west, Tuensang to its east, and
Zunheboto to its south. The physiography of the district shows six
distinct hill ranges. The ranges are more or less parallel to each
other and runs southeast direction. Explore the world of Mokokchung.
Geography
Mokokchung District is bounded by the state of Assam to its
north, Tuensang to its east, Zunheboto to its south and Wokha
and Assam to it’s west, and lies between 93.53 and 94.53 Degrees
Longitude and 25.56 Degrees Latitude. There are several Ranges
that run more or less parallel to each other in North-east or
South-west direction. Between the Ranges, there are glens and
gorges through which flow the hill streams. There are only two
small valleys namely… Changki and Tuli, and both of them are on
the western side of the district adjoining the plains of the Sibsagar
district of Assam. The entire District of Mokokchung is conveniently
sub-divided into Ranges.
