Dindori District, formerly known as Ramgarh District, is a
district
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of
Madhya Pradesh
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of
central India. The town of
Dindori is the district headquarters. The district is part of
Jabalpur Division
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. Total area of the district is . It is located on the eastern part of Madhya Pradesh, bordering the state of Chhattisgarh. It is surrounded by
Anuppur district to the northeast,
Umaria district
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The total geographical area of the district sums up to 4548 square kilometers and has a population of 644 ...
to the north,
Jabalpur district
Jabalpur district is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The city of Jabalpur is the administrative headquarters of the district.
The area of the district is 5,198 km² with population of 2,463,289 (2011 census). As of 20 ...
to the west,
Mandla district to the southwest and
Mungeli and
Kabirdham districts of
Chhattisgarh to the south.
Economy
In 2006 the
Ministry of Panchayati Raj
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named Dindori one of the country's 250
most backward districts (out of a total of
640).
[ It is one of the 24 districts in Madhya Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).]
Demographics
According to the 2011 census, Dindori District has a population
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of 704,524,Bhutan
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. This gives it a ranking of 501st in India (out of a total of 640).[ The district has a population density of .][ Its ]population growth rate
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over the decade 2001-2011 was 21.26%.[ Dindori has a ]sex ratio
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of 1,002 females
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for every 1,000 males,[ and a ]literacy rate
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of 63.90%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 5.65% and 64.69% of the population respectively. Gonds
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make up around 50% of the district's population.[
]
Languages
At the time of the 2011 Census of India
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, 82.78% of the population in the district spoke Hindi
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and 14.09% Gondi as their first language.2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue
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Although most people return their language as "Hindi", the local dialect is mid-way between Chhattisgarhi and Bagheli
Bagheli (Devanagari: बघेली) or Baghelkhandi is a Central Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Baghelkhand region of central India.
Classification
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.
References
External links
Dindori District
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Districts of Madhya Pradesh