Beed district (Marathi pronunciation: iːɖ is an administrative

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in the state of

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. The district headquarters are located at

Beed Beed (Marathi pronunciation: iːɖ is a city in Marathwada region of Maharashtra state in India. It is the administrative headquarters in Beed district. History Beed is a historical city of possibly medieval origin. Its early history is ob ...

. The district occupies an

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of 10,693 km² and has a

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of 2,585,049 of which 17.91% were urban (as of 2011).

Officer

Members of Parliament

Pritam Munde Dr. Pritam Gopinath Munde (born 17 February 1983) is a doctor and Indian politician who is the current Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from Beed. In 2014, she won with a margin of 6,96,321 votes - the highest ever in India's electoral his ...

( BJP)

Guardian Minister

list of Guardian Minister

District Magistrate/Collector

list of District Magistrate / Collector

History

Beed district has a long history of many rulers and kingdoms. In the ancient era, this city was called as ''Champavati nagari''. The city still proudly shows some old monuments showing the signs of past glory in the form of many city entry doors (called ''Ves'' in local language) and city protection walls. Until the 19th century, this part of

Marathwada Marathwada () is a proposed state and geographical region of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It was formed during the Nizam's rule and was part of the then Hyderabad State. The region coincides with the Aurangabad division of Maharashtra. I ...

was under the Nizam monarchy, but was later included into the Indian Republic after a fierce struggle between Indian freedom fighters and Nizam soldiers. The name of Bhir is given by Mohammad Tughlaq.

Economy

Agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people ...

is the main business in Beed, and it is largely dependent on

monsoon A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscil ...

rain. Beed also is a district which provides a large number

sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, perennial grass (in the genus '' Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fibrous stalk ...

cutters. A large area of Beed is Rocky and hilly especially the Georai, Ashti, Ambajogai , Kaij and Patoda Taluka, these are the places where custard apple is cultivated.

Divisions

This district is divided into eleven

taluka A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

s (or

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its adminis ...

s). These are: #

# Ashti # Gevrai #

Ambajogai Ambajogai, (also called Ambejogai or Ambanagari) is a municipal council, Tehsil and subdivision in Beed district in the state of Maharashtra, India. Ambajogai is known as cultural capital of Marathwada. The town is named as Ambajogai after ...

# Kaij # Parali (Vaijnath) #

Majalgaon Majalgaon is a municipal council in Beed district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the headquarters of the Majalgaon taluka of Beed district. Majalgaon is situated at northestern side of Beed district. The Majalgaon Dam has been cons ...

# Patoda # Shirur Kasar #

Wadwani Wadvani is a tehsil in Majalgaon subdivision of Beed district in the Indian state of Maharashtra in Marathwada region. . About Wadwani Wadwani is Taluka in Beed district. It was designated as Taluka in December 1999 by then Deputy Ch ...

# Dharur

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Beed district has a

of 2,585,049, 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 160th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 19.65%. Beed has a

sex ratio The sex ratio (or gender ratio) is usually defined as 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. Many species dev ...

of 912

females Female (symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females ...

for every 1000 males. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 13.59% and 1.27% of the population respectively. At the time of the

2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Informatio ...

, 83.38% of the population in the district spoke Marathi, 8.62%

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...

and 2.37% Lambadi as their first language.

References

External links

Beed district official website

The Unofficial Website of Beed.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Beed District Districts of Maharashtra Aurangabad division Marathwada