Chitrakoot district is one of the districts of

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...

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of India in the

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region and Chitrakoot town is the district headquarters. Chitrakoot district is a part of

Chitrakoot Division Chitrakoot Division is an administrative division of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. Historically part of Bundelkhand region, it includes the districts of: * Banda, * Chitrakoot, * Hamirpur, and * Mahoba. Until a few years ago, ...

. The district occupies an area of 3,216 km².The district has a population of 991,730 (2011 Census). As of 2011 it is the second least populated district of Uttar Pradesh (out of 75), after

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Economy

In 2006 the

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named Chitrakoot one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640). It is one of the 34 districts in Uttar Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF). Successive governments have often ignored the district's development and hence has become one of the most remote and cut-off districts in India.

Administration

Tehsils

The Chitrakoot district is divided into 4 Sub-Divisions (

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s), each headed by a SDM. # Karwi # Mau # Manikpur # Rajapur

Blocks

The Chitrakoot district is divided into 5 Community Development

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s, each headed by a BDO. # Karwi # Mau # Pahari # Ramnagar # Manikpur

Transportation

Closest Airport to Chitrakoot is in

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which is 106 kilometers (65.8 miles) away and has flights to major destinations such as Delhi, Bangaluru, Mumbai, Kolkata etc. Manikpur Junction railway station, located at

Manikpur Sarhat Manikpur, Officially known as Manikpur Sarhat is a town of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in Chitrakoot district, it has population around 15,435 as per 2011-2020 census, which makes it a nagar panchayat, and Tahseel in Manikpur. It is loc ...

is a major railway station in Chitrakoot district, providing train connections to Mumbai, Kolkata, Patna, New Delhi, etc.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Chitrakoot district has a

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of 991,730, roughly equal to the nation of

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or the US state of

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. This gives it a ranking of 448th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its

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over the decade 2001-2011 was 29.29%. Chitrakoot has a

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of 879

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for every 1000 males, and a

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of 66.52%. Scheduled Castes made up 26.89% of the population. At the time of the

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, 68.61% of the population in the district spoke

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and 30.52%

Bundeli Bundeli (Devanagari: बुन्देली or बुंदेली; or Bundelkhandi) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Bundelkhand region of central India. It belongs to the Central Indo-Ayran languages and is part of the Western Hi ...

as their first language. Chitrakoot is located at the junction of Bundeli,

Awadhi Awadhi (; ), also known as Audhi (), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in northern India and Nepal. It is primarily spoken in the Awadh region of present-day Uttar Pradesh, India. The name ''Awadh'' is connected to Ayodhya, the ancient city, w ...

and

Bagheli Bagheli (Devanagari: बघेली) or Baghelkhandi is a Central Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Baghelkhand region of central India. Classification An independent language belonging to the Eastern Hindi subgroup, Bagheli is one of the ...

dialects.

Notes

External links

Chitrakoot District on Bundelkhanddarshan.com
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Chitrakoot @ Bundelkhand's unofficial web site

Chitrakoot Information Guide
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