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Bhandara District
Bhandara District (Marathi pronunciation: ʰəɳɖaːɾa is an administrative district in the state of Maharashtra in India. The name Bhandara is a corruption oBhanara Reference to Bhanara is found in an inscription of 1100 A.D. traced at Ratanpur. The district headquarters are located at Bhandara. The district occupies an area of 3717 km2 and has a population of 1,200,334 (605,520 males and 594,814 females), of which 19.48% are urban as of 2011. The growth rate of Bhandara is 5.56% Bhandara has a mixed economy with agriculture, industries and forest resources. Bhandara is known for its large production of rice. Tumsar, a tahsil town, is a noted rice market. Bhandara town is also known as "Brass City" owing to the presence of a large brass products industry. Bhandara has several tourist destinations, like Ambagad Fort, Brahmi, Chinchgad, and Dighori. The district is also known for the Ordnance Factory Bhandara of the Ordnance Factories Board, which manufactures products ...
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List Of Districts Of Maharashtra
Maharashtra is an States and union territories of India, Indian state that was formed on 1 May 1960 with 26 initial District (India), districts. Since then, 11 additional districts have been created, the most recent of which is Palghar district. The state currently has 36 districts. These districts are grouped into six administrative divisions shown below. All divisions in Maharashtra Maharashtra is divided into 36 districts, which are grouped into six divisions. Regions Geographically, historically, politically, and according to cultural sentiments, Maharashtra has five main regions: * Konkan (Konkan division) * Paschim Maharashtra, also known as Desh, Maharashtra, Desh (Pune division) * North Maharashtra (Nashik Division) - contains Khandesh * Marathwada (Aurangabad division) * Vidarbha (Nagpur division, Nagpur and Amravati division, Amravati divisions) - formerly Central Provinces and Berar Divisions Districts The table below lists important geographic and demographi ...
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Literacy In India
Literacy in India is a key for social-economic progress. The 2011 census, indicated a 2001–2011 literacy growth of 9.2%, which is slower than the growth seen during the previous decade. At the then-current rate of progress in 1990, one study projected that universal literacy might be reached by 2060. The census of India pegged the average literacy rate as 73% in 2011 while National Statistical Commission surveyed literacy to be 80.6% in 2017–18. Meanwhile, the National Sample Survey Office (India), National Sample Survey Office in its 2023–2024 annual PLFS report stated the total literacy rate of India to be 80.9%. Literacy rate in urban areas was 90%, higher than rural areas with 77%. There is a wide gender disparity in the literacy rate in India and effective literacy rates (age 7 and above) was 88% for men and 81% for women. The lower female literacy rate has a dramatically negative impact on Family planning in India, family planning and population stabilisation efforts ...
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Tumsar
Tumsar is a city and the headquarters of Tumsar Taluka in the Bhandara district of Maharashtra, India. It is a kubernagri, also known as the Rice City for producing the best quality rice Rice is a cereal grain and in its Domestication, domesticated form is the staple food of over half of the world's population, particularly in Asia and Africa. Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice)—or, much l ... in abundance. The nearest airport to Tumsar is Birsi Airport (Gondia). Climate Temperatures range from 48 degrees Celsius in summer to 12 degrees in winter. References Cities and towns in Bhandara district {{Bhandara-geo-stub ...
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India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since 2023; and, since its independence in 1947, the world's most populous democracy. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is near Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations averag ...
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Districts Of Maharashtra
Maharashtra is an Indian state that was formed on 1 May 1960 with 26 initial districts. Since then, 11 additional districts have been created, the most recent of which is Palghar district. The state currently has 36 districts. These districts are grouped into six administrative divisions shown below. All divisions in Maharashtra Maharashtra is divided into 36 districts, which are grouped into six divisions. Regions Geographically, historically, politically, and according to cultural sentiments, Maharashtra has five main regions: * Konkan ( Konkan division) * Paschim Maharashtra, also known as Desh (Pune division) * North Maharashtra ( Nashik Division) - contains Khandesh * Marathwada ( Aurangabad division) * Vidarbha (Nagpur and Amravati divisions) - formerly Central Provinces and Berar Divisions Districts The table below lists important geographic and demographic parameters for all 36 districts. Population data are extracted from the 2011 Census of India. Prop ...
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Roads in India are an important mode of transport in India. India has a network of over 6,617,100 km of roads. As of Dec 2024, India has the largest road network in the world. At () of roads per square kilometre of land, the quantitative density of India's road network is equal to that of Hong Kong, and substantially higher than the United States (), China (), Brazil () and Russia (). Adjusted for its large population, India has approximately of roads per 1,000 people, which is much lower than United States but higher than that of China . India's road network carries over 71% of its freight and about 85% of passenger traffic. Since the 1990s, major efforts have been underway to modernize the country's road infrastructure. As of 31 March 2020, 70.00% of Indian roads were paved. As of 31 December 2023, India had completed and placed into use over of four or more lane highways connecting many of its major manufacturing, commercial and cultural centres. According to the ...
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Indian Standard Time
Indian Standard Time (IST), sometimes also called India Standard Time, is the time zone observed throughout the Republic of India, with a time offset of UTC+05:30. India does not observe daylight saving time or other seasonal adjustments. In military and aviation time, IST is designated E* ("Echo-Star"). It is indicated as ''Asia/Kolkata'' in the IANA time zone database. History The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. The Central observatory was moved from Chennai to a location at Shankargarh Fort in Allahabad district, so that it would be as close to UTC+05:30 as possible. Daylight Saving Time (DST) was used brief ...
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Prashant Yadaorao Padole
Prashant Yadaorao Padole is an Indian politician. He is a member of Indian National Congress. Political career Padole was elected in 2024 as a Member of Parliament from the Bhandara–Gondiya Lok Sabha constituency, Bhandara-Gondiya Lok Sabha constitutency. He defeated Sunil Baburao Mendhe of the Bharatiya Janata Party by a margin of 37,380 votes. References

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List Of Members Of The 17th Lok Sabha
This is a list of members of the 17th Lok Sabha, 17th Lok Sabha arranged by the States and union territories of India, states and union territories they were elected from. These MPs were elected in the 2019 Indian general election held in April–May 2019, and took their seats on 17 June of that year. Andhra Pradesh Keys: Arunachal Pradesh Keys: Assam Keys: Bihar Keys: Chhattisgarh Keys: Goa Keys: Gujarat Keys: Haryana Keys: Himachal Pradesh Keys: Jharkhand Keys: Karnataka Keys: Kerala Keys: Madhya Pradesh Keys: Maharashtra Keys: Manipur Keys: Meghalaya Keys: Mizoram Keys: Nagaland Keys: Odisha Keys: Punjab Keys: Rajasthan Keys: Sikkim Keys: Tamil Nadu Keys: Telangana Keys: Tripura Keys: Uttar Pradesh Keys: Uttarakhand Keys: West Bengal Keys: Andaman and Nicobar Islands Keys: Chandigarh K ...
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