Janjgir–Champa district is a district in the
India
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n state of
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh (; ) is a landlocked States and union territories of India, state in Central India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the List ...
. The district's headquarters,
Janjgir, is the city of Maharaja Jajawalya Dev of the
Kalachuri dynasty
The Kalachuri dynasties were any of the several dynasties that ruled parts of India in the medieval era.
* Kalachuris of Mahishmati (550–625), also called Early Kalachuris
* Kalachuris of Tripuri (675–1212), also called Kalachuris of Chedi or ...
. Champa is the city named after Raja Veer bahadur's Horse called "Champak". Earlier a part of the
Bilaspur district, Jangir-Champa was carved out in 1998 to a separate district of its own. Inhabitants are generally migrants from nearby villages.
The present collector of Janjgir-Champa is Shri Jitendra Kumar Shukla.
History
The Janjgir–Champa district, which is best known as the heart of Chhattisgarh because of its central location in state, was established on 25 May 1998. The Vishnu Mandir of the district reflects its golden past. Janjgir- Champa is also a place where one can find a number of temples having very versatile history. On August 15, 2021 then Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh announced new districts in state, one of which would the Newly formed district of
Sakti which was carved by taking many villages and cities out of Janjgir Champa district.
Economy
KSK Energy Venture (6 x 600 MW) is one of the major
thermal power plant
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of the district.
Demographics
According to the
2011 census, Janjgir–Champa has a
population
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of 1,619,707,
roughly equal to the nation of
Guinea-Bissau
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or the US state of
Idaho
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.
This denotes it as the 308th largest district (out of 640) in India.
The district has a population density of .
Its
population growth rate
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over the decade 2001-2011 was 23.01%.
Janjgir–Champa has a
sex ratio
A sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which reproduce sexually. However, many species deviate from an even sex ratio, ei ...
of 991
females
An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction.
A female has larger gametes than a male. Females and male ...
for every 1,000 males, and a
literacy rate
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of 73.7%.
[
After bifurcation, the district had a population of 966,671, of which 163,553 (16.92%) live in urban areas. Janjgir-Champa has a sex ratio of 973 females per 1000 males. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 249,522 (25.81%) and 82,900 (8.58%) of the population respectively.]Chhattisgarhi
Chhattisgarhi () is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by approximately 16.25 million people from Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra in India. It is the official language of Chhattisgarh. It is grouped within the Eastern Hindi lan ...
, and 4.30% Hindi
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as their first language.
See also
* Janjgir–Champa Lok Sabha constituency
References
External links
Janjgir Facebook
Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Janjgir-Champa district
Districts of Chhattisgarh
1998 establishments in Madhya Pradesh