Narayanpur district is one of the 33 districts of Chhattisgarh State in Central

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. It is one of the two districts created on May 11, 2007. It was carved out from the erstwhile

Bastar district Bastar is a district in the state of Chhattisgarh in Central India. Jagdalpur is the district headquarters. Bastar is bounded on the northwest by Narayanpur District, on the north by Kondagaon district, on the east by Nabarangpur and Kora ...

. This district occupies an area of 6640 km² and it had a population of 110,800 in 2001. Narayanpur town is the administrative headquarters of this district. This district comprises 366 villages. It is currently a part of the

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. As of 2011 it is the least populous district of Chhattisgarh (out of 18). The present district collector and magistrate of Narayanpur is Mr. Dharmesh Sahu, IAS. Jagadalpur is the nearest major town to Narayanpur and it is around 120 km away. National High-way is situated at a distance of around 50 km from Narayanpur. Nearest railway stations to Narayanpur, from where inter-state trains run are Jagadalpur and RajaNandagaon and they are located at a distance of 120 km and 180 km respectively. Being a part of Bastar division with a large presence of Naxalite insurgents, transportation and medical facilities are the two major concerns for people who live here. Abujhmad Peace Marathon is the largest sports event of Narainpur. State Bank of India has opened its branch in 1977 to provide financial services to the people of Narainpur.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Narayanpur district has a

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of 139,820, roughly equal to the nation of Saint Lucia. This gives it a ranking of 606th 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 19.49%. Narayanpur has a

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of 998

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for every 1000 males, and a

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of 49.59%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 3.56% and 77.36% of the population respectively. 92.38% of the population stated their religion as Hinduism. 6.11% other (tribal faiths) and 0.55% Muslims. At the time of the

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, 65.25% of the population in the district spoke Gondi, 18.14% Halbi, 9.08% Chhattisgarhi, 4.05%

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, and 1.27%

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as their first language.2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue
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Geography

Narayanpur District is divided into two administrative blocks: # Narayanpur, having 45 Graama Panchayats with 176 villages (172 inhabited), is spread over an area of 2760 km². #Orchha, having 24 Gram Panchayats with 237 villages (209 inhabited), is spread over an area of 3880 km². Orchha comprises the Abujhmad region, the unsurveyed zone in central India and home to Primitive Tribal Group Madia Gond and Muriya Gond. Narayanpur receives an average annual rainfall of 1300 mm.

Politics

Narayanpur is under Bastar Lok Sabha constituency, whose MP is

Deepak Baij Deepak Baij is an Indian politician. He is currently serving as President of Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee. He was elected to the Lok Sabha, lower house of the Parliament of India from Bastar, Chhattisgarh in the 2019 Indian general e ...

from the

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ...

. The MLA from Narayanpur assembly constituency is Chandan Kashyap from the Indian National Congress.

Villages

* Jhulna

References

External links

Official website
State Bank of India has the most branches in Narayanpur District {{Narayanpur district Districts of Chhattisgarh States and territories established in 2007 2007 establishments in Chhattisgarh