Raigarh district is a district of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Raigarh is the district headquarters. The district was formed by merging the princely states of Raigarh, Sakti, Sarangarh,

Udaipur Udaipur () ( ISO 15919: ''Udayapura''), historically named as Udayapura, is a city and municipal corporation in Udaipur district of the state of Rajasthan, India. It is the administrative headquarter of Udaipur district. It is the historic cap ...

and

Jashpur Jashpur District is a district of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh bordering Jharkhand and Odisha. Jashpur Nagar is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district was formerly a princely state before Indpendence. Highly mou ...

. Jashpur is now a separate district. Sakti is now not a part of Raigarh district. It is rapidly growing as an industrial district of Chhattisgarh. One of the oldest jute mills of India is situated here, Mohan jute mill; it was the only Jute Mill of the state Chhattisgarh and undivided Madhya Pradesh. Raigarh is one of the major producers of steel and power in the country. Here are situated many steel and power plants such as JSPL, MSP, Monnet steel, and many other small and medium producers. The volume can be judged by the statement that Raigarh itself is consuming about 20,000 tons of coal per day.

Administration

Raigarh district has 9 tehsils: # Raigarh # Udaipur ( Dharamjaigarh) #

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Demographics

According to the 2011 census Raigarh district has a

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of 1,493,984, 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 336th 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 18.02%. Raigarh has a

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of 993

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for every 1000 males, and a

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of 73.7%. After bifurcation the district had a population of 1,112,982. 19.66% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 126,349 (11.35%) and 443,752 (39.87%) of the population respectively.

Languages

At the time of the

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, 72.34% of the population in the district spoke Chhattisgarhi, 8.63% Odia, 8.32%

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, 5.29% Kurukh, 1.07%

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and 1.04% Bhojpuri as their first language. Languages spoken here include Asuri, an

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language spoken by approximately 17,000.

References

External links

Raigarh District homepage
{{Coord, 21, 54, N, 83, 24, E, source:itwiki_type:adm3rd, display=title Districts of Chhattisgarh 1948 establishments in India