Gondia district

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Gondia district (also known as Gondiya, Marathi pronunciation:

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 1,200 mm (47 in) in each rainy season (June to September).

The hottest month is May when daytime high temperatures will generally average 42 °C (108 °F). During the same month, nightly minimum temperatures average around 28 °C (82 °F). In recent times the highest-recorded temperature in May has been 48 °C (118 °F), and the lowest May temperature has been 20 °C (68 °F).

The coolest months are December and January when temperatures will reach highs of around 29 °C (84 °F) and lows of 13 °C (55 °F). The highest-recorded temperature in January was 38 °C (100 °F) and the lowest was 0 °C (32 °F).

Demographics

According to the

At the time of the

• Rajkumar Badole served from 31 October 2014 - 8 November 2019
• Anil Deshmukh served from 9 January 2020 - 5 April 2021
• Nawab Malik| served from 5 April 2021 - 27 March 2022
• Prajakt Tanpure served from 27 March 2022 - 29 June 2022
• Sudhir Mungantiwar served from 27 September 2022 - 4 October 2023

District magistrate/collector

Nayana A. Gunde is the district magistrate of Gondia since 2019.

Divisions

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

• Gondia sub-division: Gondia.
• Deori: Deori, Amgaon, and Salekasa talukas
• Tirora sub-division: Tirora and Goregaon talukas
• Arjuni Morgaon sub-division: Arjuni Morgaon and Sadak Arjuni talukas

The district also includes of 556

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

The district has four

Gondiya, Tirora and Amgaon (Scheduled tribes). While the first three are part of Bhandara-Gondiya Lok Sabha constituency, the last one is part of Gadchiroli-Chimur (ST) Lok Sabha constituency.^[8]

Economy

In 2006 the

640).^[9] It is one of the twelve districts in Maharashtra currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).^[9]

References

1. ^ "Census GIS India". Archived from the original on 3 July 2007. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
2. ^ "Census of India Website : Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India". www.censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
3. ^ "Population by Religion - Maharashtra". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India. 2011.
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "District Census Hand Book – Gondiya" (PDF). Census of India. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
5. ^ US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Archived from the original on 27 September 2011. Retrieved 1 October 2011. Mauritius 1,303,717 July 2011 est.
6. ^ "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011. New Hampshire 1,316,470
7. ^ ^{a b} "Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Maharashtra". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
8. ^ "Districtwise List of Assembly and Parliamentary Constituencies". Chief Electoral Officer, Maharashtra website. Archived from the original on 18 March 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2009.
9. ^ ^{a b} Ministry of Panchayati Raj (8 September 2009). "A Note on the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme" (PDF). National Institute of Rural Development. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 April 2012. Retrieved 27 September 2011.

External links

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• Gondia district website
• www.gondiainfo.com