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Dindori District, formerly known as Ramgarh District, is a district of Madhya Pradesh state of central India. The town of Dindori is the district headquarters. The district is part of Jabalpur Division. Total area of the district is Template:Cvt. It is located on the eastern part of Madhya Pradesh, bordering the state of Chhattisgarh. It is surrounded by Anuppur in the east, Mandla in the west, Umaria in the north, and Mungeli district of the state of Chhattisgarh in the south.
Economy
In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Dindori one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).[1] It is one of the 24 districts in Madhya Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).[1]
Demographics
Template:Historical populationsAccording to the 2011 census, Dindori District has a population of 704,524,[2] roughly equal to the nation of Bhutan[3] or the US state of Alaska.[4] This gives it a ranking of 501st in India (out of a total of 640).[2] The district has a population density of Template:Convert .[2] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 21.26%.[2] Dindori has a sex ratio of 1,002 females for every 1,000 males,[2] and a literacy rate of 63.90%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 5.6% and 64.7% of the population respectively. Gonds make up around 50% of the district's population.[2]
Languages
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 85.43% of the population in the district spoke Hindi and 14.09% Gondi as their first language.[5]
Dindori's people speak multiple languages, including: Chhattisgarhi, Bagheli, which has a lexical similarity of 72-91% with Hindi[6] (compared to 60% for German and English)[7] and is spoken by about 7,800,000 people in Bagelkhand.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Note on the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme. National Institute of Rural Development(September 8, 2009). Retrieved September 27, 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 District Census 2011. Census2011.co.in. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ↑ Country Comparison:Population. Retrieved 2011-10-01.
- ↑ 2010 Resident Population Data. U. S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ↑ 2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Template:Cite encyclopedia
- ↑ Template:Cite encyclopedia
External links
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