Jharsuguda district

Jharsuguda
	Jharsuguda
	— district —
	Jharsuguda Location of Jharsuguda; in Orissa and India
Coordinates	21°51′00″N 84°00′58″E / 21.85°N 84.016°ECoordinates: 21°51′00″N 84°00′58″E / 21.85°N 84.016°E
Country	India
State	Orissa
Headquarters	Jharsuguda
Nearest city	Bhubaneswar
Collector
Member of Parliament	Sanjay Bhoi
Parliamentary constituency	Bargarh
Assembly constituency	2, 1.Brajarajnagar, 2.Jharsuguda
Population; • Density	514,853 (2001); • 245 /km2 (635 /sq mi)
Sex ratio	1.057 ♂/♀
Literacy; • Male; • Female	71.4% ; • 83.04%; • 59.23%
Official languages	Oriya, Hindi, English
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Area	2,081 square kilometres (803 sq mi)
Climate; • Precipitation; Temperature; • Summer	Aw (Köppen); • 1,527 mm (60.1 in); ; • 46.7 °C (116.1 °F)
• Pincode	• 768 xxx
• Vehicle	• OR-23
Website	jharsuguda.nic.in

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This article is about the district. For its eponymous headquarters, see Jharsuguda.

Jharsuguda is a district in Orissa, India with Jharsuguda town as its headquarters. The district once had an airport during World War II. This region is rich in coal and other mineral reserves. Of late, many small and medium scale iron and steel units have been set up in the vicinity of Jharsuguda town, giving impetus to the industrial growth of the district.

[edit] Geography

Jharsuguda district has three urban agglomerations, municipalities of Jharsuguda town and Brajrajnagar and municipality of Belpahar. Bandhabahal is also a place which is located 15 km away from Belpahar. This place is famous for Jagannath temple.

[edit] Economy

There are lot of Coal mines situated in this area.

Brajrajnagar is an industrial town, being of the prime location for Open Cast Coal Mine of Ib Valley Coalfield of Mahanadi Coalfields Limited. Brajrajnagar also boasts of a large scale paper mill, i.e., Orient Paper Mills of the Birla Group of Industries. However, this mill has been defunct for more than a decade now.^[when?]

In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Jharsuguda one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).^[1] It is one of the 19 districts in Orissa currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).^[1]

[edit] Divisions

The district comprises five blocks, primary being Lakhanpur, Kolabira, Laikera, Kirmira and Jharsuguda.

Belpahar sub-division includes 12 villages and two town. The most populous village is Chhualiberna. The main festival of Chhualiberna is Narsingh Puja which held on month of December.

[edit] Demographics

According to the 2011 census Jharsuguda district has a population of 579,499,^[2] roughly equal to the nation of Solomon Islands^[3] or the US state of Wyoming.^[4] This gives it a ranking of 530th in India (out of a total of 640).^[2] The district has a population density of 274 inhabitants per square kilometre (710 /sq mi) .^[2] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 13.69 %.^[2] Jharsuguda has a sex ratio of 951 females for every 1000 males,^[2] and a literacy rate of 78.36 %.^[2]