Sironcha


Sironcha is a Large Village and municipal council in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra state in India. It connected with NH-63.

Geography

Sironcha is located at. It has an average elevation of 118 metres.
There is a planned National highway No 16 between Karimnagar in Telangana State and Jagdalpur in Chhattisgarh State, Maharashtra and Telangana states. The construction of this National highway includes building bridges over the Pranhita and Indravati rivers. The Tahasil is recently came into news for the discovery of Dinosaur's fossils and large numbers of wood fossils found dating back to crores of years, specially lower Jurassic period.

Historical background

Historically Sironcha was a key location for the East India Company from
Nizam perspective, it was the Southern tehsil of Chanda District,
Central Provinces. however it is not clear why Sironcha, a remote place,
was selected ?.
In 1901, Sironcha tehsil area was, and its population
was 51,148. The transfer of the taluks of Nugur, Albaka, and Cherla of the
Sironcha tehsil, covering an area of and containing
142 villages with 20,218 persons, to the Madras Presidency has been
sanctioned, but further details of administration are still being con-
sidered. In 1905 an area of of the Chanda tahsil,
of which 2,600 were in the Ahiri zamindari estate, was transferred to
Sironcha. The revised totals of area and population of the Sironcha
tahsil are and 55,465 persons. The population
in 1891 of the area now constituting the tahsil was 51,732. The
density is only, and the tahsil contains
421 inhabited villages. Its headquarters are at Sironcha, a village
of 2,813 inhabitants, from Chanda town by road. The area
of Government forest in the new tahsil is, while of the Ahiri zamindari are covered by tree forest, scrub
jungle, or grass. The northern portion of the tehsil comprised in the
Ahiri zamindari is one of the most densely wooded and sparsely populated areas in the Province;
to the south of this Sironcha extends in
a long narrow strip to the east of the Godavari, and consists of a belt of
rich alluvial soil along the banks of the river and its affluents, with
forests and hills in the background. The population is wholly Telugu.
The land revenue demand of the tahsil was approximately Rs. 17,000,
before the revision of settlement now in progress.

Climate

Demographics

Population

As of 2011 Indian Census, Sironcha had a total population of 7,427, of which 3,798 were males and 3,629 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 701. The total number of literates in Sironcha was 5,680, which constituted 76.5% of the population with male literacy of 82.4% and female literacy of 70.3%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Sironcha was 84.4%, of which male literacy rate was 91.3% and female literacy rate was 77.3%. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population was 382 and 1,277 respectively. Sironcha had 1814 households in 2011.

Language

Sironcha is a Telugu majority town. Out of a population of 7417, 4812 persons spoke Telugu as their mother tongue while 1615 persons spoke Marathi.

Transport

Sironcha is connected by the State Road Transport services to Gadchiroli, Aheri, Chandrapur, Nagpur and Wardha. Sironcha is also connected to the Telangana State capital Hyderabad and some popular Cities/Towns like Bhupalapalli Warangal, Ramagundam, Karimnagar, Godavarikhani, Manchiryal.