Dindori district


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. The district is located on the eastern part of Madhya Pradesh, bordering the state of Chhattisgarh. It is surrounded by Shahdol 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. It is one of the 24 districts in Madhya Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Dindori District has a population of 704,524, roughly equal to the nation of Bhutan or the US state of Alaska. This gives it a ranking of 501st in India. The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 21.26%. Dindori has a sex ratio of 1,002 females for every 1,000 males, and a literacy rate of 63.90%.

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.
Dindori's people speak multiple languages, including: Chhattisgarhi, Bagheli, which has a lexical similarity of 72-91% with Hindi and is spoken by about 7,800,000 people in Bagelkhand.