Gondia district (also known as Gondiya, Marathi pronunciation: �on̪d̪iaː is an administrative district in the state of

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in India. The district headquarter is located at

Gondia Gondia (also spelled as Gondiya, Marathi pronunciation: �on̪d̪iaː is a city and headquarters of eponymous Gondia District in Maharashtra, India. Gondia is also known as ''Rice City'' due to the abundance of rice mills in the area. Gondi ...

. The district occupies an area of and has a population of 1,322,507, of which 11.95% were urban (). The district is a part of the

Nagpur Division The Nagpur Division is one of six administrative divisions of the state of Maharashtra in India. Nagpur is the easternmost division in the state, with an administrative headquarters in the city of Nagpur. It covers 51,336 km² (19,821 m ...

. There are 8

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Gondia District Gondia district (also known as Gondiya, Marathi pronunciation: �on̪d̪iaː is an administrative district in the state of Maharashtra in India. The district headquarter is located at Gondia. The district occupies an area of and has a popul ...

. Gondia Airport is the second airport in the Vidarbha region and serves the city of

Geography

Climate

Gondia experiences extreme variations in temperature with very hot summers and very cold winters and has an average relative humidity of 62 per cent. Average recorded rainfall is more than in each rainy season (June to September). May is the hottest month, when daytime temperature averages 42°C (108 °F), whereas the night temperature remains around 28 °C (82 °F). In recent times, the highest-recorded temperature in May has been , and the lowest May temperature has been . The coolest months are December and January when temperatures reach highs of around and lows of . The highest-recorded temperature in January was and the lowest was .

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Gondia district has a

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of 1,322,507, roughly equal to the nation of Mauritius or the US state of

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. This gives it a ranking of 369th in India (out of a total of

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). The district has a population density of . Its

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during 2001–2011 was 10.13%. Gondia 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 996

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for every 1,000 males, and a

literacy rate Literacy is the ability to read and write, while illiteracy refers to an inability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was ...

of 85.41%. 17.08% of the population live in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 13.31% and 16.20% of the population respectively.

Languages

At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 73.31% of the population in the district spoke

Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India **Marathi people (Uttar Pradesh), the Marathi people in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Mar ...

, 10.06%

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, 4.70% Powari, 3.45% Gondi, 2.60% Lodhi and 1.79%

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 ...

as their first language. 1.48% of the population recorded their language as 'Others' under Hindi.

Government and politics

Members of Parliament

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 ...

represents

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...

(INC) for the Bhandara-Gondiya constituency, while

Namdeo Kirsan Namdeo Kirsan is an Indian politician and the elected candidate for Lok Sabha from Gadchiroli–Chimur Lok Sabha constituency. He is a member of the Indian National Congress. He is a notable scholar who holds various degrees across different f ...

, also a member of

(INC) represents for the Gadchiroli–Chimur constituency.

Guardian Minister

Dharmraobaba Aatram was the guardian minister. Following is a link of former guardian ministers:- *

Rajkumar Badole Rajkumar Badole (born 28 March 1963) is an Indian politician. He is a Bharatiya Janata Party member and had represented Arjuni Morgaon in 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in First Fadnavis ministry, 1st Devendra Fadnavis ministry.

served from 31 October 2014 - 08 November 2019 *

Anil Deshmukh Anil Vasantrao Deshmukh (born 9 May 1950) is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He is a senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar). Deshmukh served as the Uddhav Thackeray ministry, Minister for Home ...

served from 09 January 2020 - 5 April 2021 *

Nawab Malik Nawab Malik (born 20 June 1959) is an Indian politician who served as the Maharashtra government, Minority Development, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister of Maharashtra and also the guardian minister of Gondia & Parbhani. He is ...

, served from 05 April 2021 - 27 March 2022 * Prajakt Tanpure served from 27 March 2022 - 29 June 2022 *

Sudhir Mungantiwar Sudhir Sachchidanand Mungantiwar (born 30 July 1962) is a legislator from the state of Maharashtra, India. He was cabinet Minister for Forests, Cultural Affairs and Fisheries in Maharashtra Government from 2022-24.He has earlier served as th ...

served from 27 September 2022 - 04 October 2023 *

Dharamraobaba Bhagwantrao Aatram Dharamraobaba Bhagwantrao Atram is an Indian leader of Nationalist Congress Party and minister of Maharashtra government a member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elected from Aheri Assembly constituency in Gadchiroli city. Positions he ...

served from 04 October 2023 21 June 2024 *

Aditi Tatkare Aditi Varada Sunil Tatkare is an Indian politician belonging to Nationalist Congress Party, who was State Minister of Maharashtra by Shinde government since 2023 and Thackeray Government 2019 - 2022. She is from Roha and she was elected as a mem ...

served from 21 June 2024 - Present

District magistrate/collector

Prajit Nair is the district magistrate of Gondia since February 2024.

Divisions

The district is divided into four sub-divisions, each of which is further divided into ''

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s''. These are: *

sub-division:

. * Deori: Deori,

Amgaon Amgaon is a town located in Gondia district of Nagpur Division in the state of Maharashtra, India.Amgoan has total 17,897 Urban population which rank 3rd in Gondia District after Gondia and Tirora.The nearest airport is Birsi (Gondia). Location ...

, and Salekasa ''talukas'' *

Tirora Tirora (also spelled Tiroda) is a city and a municipal council in Gondia (Gondiya) district of Maharashtra, India. Adani Power Maharashtra Limited, Tirora is the largest coal based Thermal Power Plant in the state of Maharashtra, India. Th ...

sub-division:

and

Goregaon Goregaon (Help:IPA/Marathi, �oːɾeɡaːʋ is a suburb of Mumbai city, in the Mumbai Suburban district of India. It has a Goregaon railway station, railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Line (Mumbai Suburban Railwa ...

''talukas'' *

Arjuni Morgaon Arjuni Morgaon is a city and municipal council in the Arjuni Morgaon subdivision of Gondia district in the Vidharbha region in the state of Maharashtra, India. It is also connected with MSH-11. Environs The subdivision is known for its rice ...

sub-division:

and Sadak Arjuni ''talukas'' The district also includes of 556 '' gram panchayats'' (village councils), 8 '' panchayat samitis'' and 954

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. The Eight municipalities in this district are Gondia, Tirora, Arjuni Morgaon, Deori, Amgaon, Goregaon, Sadak Arjuni, Salekasa. The district has four

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(legislative assembly) constituencies:

(Scheduled castes), Gondiya,

and

(Scheduled tribes). While the first three are part of Bhandara-Gondiya

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constituency, the last one is part of Gadchiroli-Chimur (ST) Lok Sabha constituency.

Economy

In 2006 the

Ministry of Panchayati Raj The Ministry of Panchayati Raj () is a branch of the Government of India. The Ministry is in charge of the Panchayati Raj and Panchayati Raj Institutions. It was created in May 2004. The Ministry is headed by a minister of cabinet rank / Min ...

named Gondia one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of

). It is one of the twelve districts in Maharashtra currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).

References

External links

Gondia district website

www.gondiainfo.com
{{Godavari basin Districts of Maharashtra Nagpur division 1999 establishments in Maharashtra Vidarbha