List of Districts of Chhattisgarh - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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Chhattisgarh, a state of India, has 27 administrative districts.

At the time of separation from Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh originally had 16 districts. Two new districts:

Bijapur and Narayanpur were carved out on May 11, 2007[1] and nine new districts on Jan 1, 2012. The newdistricts have been created by carving out the existing districts to facilitate more targeted, focused and closeradministration. These districts have been named Sukma, Kondagaon, Balod, Bemetara, Baloda Bazar,

Gariaband, Mungeli, Surajpur and Balrampur[2]

Contents

1 Background

2 Administrative history

3 Districts of Chhattisgarh

4 References

5 External links

Background

A district of an Indian state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a district magistrate or a deputycommissioner, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. The district magistrate or the deputycommissioner is assisted by a number of officials belonging to different wings of the administrative services of

the state.

A superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to Indian Police Service is entrusted with the responsibility ofmaintaining law and order and related issues.

Administrative history

Before Indian independence, present-day Chhattisgarh state was divided between the Central Provinces andBerar, a province of British India, and a number of princely states in the north, south, and east, which were partof the Eastern States Agency.

The British province encompassed the central portion of the state, and was made up of three districts, Raipur,Bilaspur, and Durg, which made up the Chhattisgarh Division of the Central Provinces. Durg District wascreated in 1906 out of the eastern portion of Raipur District.

The northern portion of the state, comprising present-day Koriya, Surajpur,Surguja, Jashpur, and Raigarhdistricts, was divided among the six princely states of Chang Bhakar, Jashpur, Koriya,Surajpur, Raigarh, Surguja,and Udaipur. To the east the states of Nandgaon, Khairagarh, and Kawardha comprised parts of present-dayRajnandgaon and Kawardha districts. In the south, the state of Kanker comprised the northern portion of

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present-day Kanker District, and the state of Bastar included present-day Bastar and Dantewada districts andthe southern part of Kanker District.

After Indian Independence, the princely states were merged with the Central Provinces and Berar to form thenew state of Madhya Pradesh. Present-day Chhattisgarh comprised seven districts of Madhya Pradesh. Theformer states of Kanker and Bastar formed the new Bastar District, the states of Surguja, Korea, and ChangBhakar formed the new Surguja District, and the states of Nandgaon, Khairagarh, and Kawardha formed thenew Rajnandgaon District.

In 1998, the seven districts that make up present-day Chhattisgarh were reorganized to form 16 districts.Dantewada and Kanker districts were split from Bastar; Dhamtari District was split from Raipur; Janjgir-Champa and Korba districts were split from Bilaspur; Jashpur District was split from Raigarh; KawardhaDistrict was formed from parts of Bilaspur and Rajnandgaon; Koriya and Surajpur District was split fromSurguja; and Mahasamund District was split from Raipur.

On November 1, 2000 these 16 districts were split from Madhya Pradesh to form the new state of

Chhattisgarh.[3] Two New Districts Are Added Afterwards.

Districts of Chhattisgarh

Following the creation of new districts in 2012, Chhattisgarh consists of 27 districts.[2][4][5][6][7]

Code District HeadquartersPopulation(2001)

Area(km²)

Density(/km²)

Official website

Balod Balod - - - -

Baloda Bazar Baloda Bazar - - - -

Balrampur Balrampur - 3806.08 - http://balrampur.info/

BA Bastar Jagdalpur 1,302,253 14,968 87 http://bastar.nic.in/

Bemetara Bemetara - - - http://bemetara.gov.in/

Bijapur Bijapur 229,832 6,555 39 http://bijapur.gov.in/

BI Bilaspur Bilaspur 1,993,042 8,270 241 http://bilaspur.nic.in/

DA Dantewada Dantewada 719,065 17,538 59 http://dantewada.nic.in/

DH Dhamtari Dhamtari 703,569 3,383 208 http://dhamtari.nic.in/

DU Durg Durg 2,801,757 8,542 328 http://durg.nic.in/

Gariaband Gariaband - - - -

JA Jashpur Jashpur 739,780 5,825 127 http://jashpur.nic.in/

JC Janjgir-Champa Naila Janjgir 1,316,140 3,848 342http://janjgir-champa.nic.in/

Kondagaon Kondagaon - - - -

KB Korba Korba 1,012,121 6,615 153 http://korba.nic.in/

KJ Koriya Baikunthpur 585,455 6,578 89 http://korea.gov.in/


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KK Kanker Kanker 651,333 6,513 100 http://kanker.gov.in/

KW Kabirdham Kawardha 584,667 4,237 138 http://kawardha.nic.in/

MA Mahasamund Mahasamund 860,176 4,779 180 http://mahasamund.nic.in/

Mungeli Mungeli - - - -

Narayanpur Narayanpur 110,800 6,640 20

RG Raigarh Raigarh 1,265,084 7,068 179 http://raigarh.nic.in/

RN Rajnandgaon Rajnandgaon 1,281,811 8,062 159 http://rajnandgaon.nic.in/

RP Raipur Raipur 3,009,042 13,083 230 http://raipur.nic.in/

SJ Surajpur Surajpur 2,570,867 15,765 125 http://surajpur.gov.in/

SK Sukma Sukma 2,49,000 --------- ------http://dantewada.gov.in/Sukma.html/

SU Surguja Ambikapur 1,970,661 15,765 125 http://surguja.nic.in/

Bastar Division:

Bijapur

Sukma(new)

Dantewada (Dakshin Bastar)

Bastar (Jagdalpur)

Kondagaon(new)

Narayanpur

Kanker (Uttar Bastar)

Durg Division:

Kabirdham (Kawardha)

Rajnandgaon

Balod(new)

Durg

Bemetara(new)

Raipur Division:

Dhamtari

Gariyaband(new)

Raipur

Baloda Bazar(new)

Mahasamund


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Bilaspur Division:

Bilaspur

Mungeli(new)

Korba

Janjgir-Champa

Raigarh

Surguja Division:

Surajpur

Surguja

Jashpur

Balrampur-Ramanujganj

Koriya

References

^ "2 new districts formed in Chhattisgarh" (http://news.webindia123.com/news/ar_showdetails.asp?id=705120475&

cat=&n_date=20070512). May 12, 2007.

1.

^ a b http://news.oneindia.in/2012/01/02/chhattisgarh-gets-new-year-gift-9-new-districts.html2.

^ Creation of Chhattisgarh (http://www.chhattisgarh.nic.in/profile/corigin.htm#creation) Government of

Chhattisgarh.

3.

^ "Electoral rolls" (http://cg.nic.in/voterlist/index.htm). Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Chhatisgarh.4.

^ Chhattisgarh at a glance-2002 (http://www.chhattisgarh.nic.in/statistics/details.pdf) Govt. of Chhattisgarh ofiicial

website.

5.

^ List of Chhattisgarh District Centres (http://cg.nic.in/addr_dic.php) at NIC, Chhatisgarh official Portal6.

^ Mathew, K.M. (ed.). Manorama Yearbook 2008, Kottayam: Malayala Manorama, ISSN 0542-5778, p.5187.

Dr.Sanjay Alung-Chhattisgarh ki Riyaste/Princely stastes aur Jamindariyaa (Vaibhav Prakashan, Raipur1,

ISBN 81-89244-96-5)

Dr.Sanjay Alung-Chhattisgarh ki Janjaatiyaa/Tribes aur Jatiyaa/Castes (Mansi publication, Delhi6, ISBN

978-81-89559-32-8)

External links

Districts of Chhattisgarh (http://explore-chhattisgarh.blogspot.com/2011/08/districts-of-chhattisgarh-

18-existing-9.html)

Chhattisgarh Photos, Videos, Maps and Tourism (http://explore-chhattisgarh.blogspot.com/)

List of Chhattisgarh District Centres (http://cg.nic.in/addr_dic.php) at Chhattisgarh Official Portal.

List of District official websites (http://www.chhattisgarh.nic.in/sitemap.htm)


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