Sidhi district

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Sidhi district () is one of the districts of Madhya Pradesh state of India. The town of Sidhi is the district headquarters. The district is part of Rewa Division.

History

Rulers of Sidhi

In the 1800s, there were three separate rulers of Sidhi, ruling three parts of the territory:

After these came the Rajput Baghelas came from Kasauta, Rewa. They immigrated to Sidhi in the early 19th century. They ruled the western Sidhi territory (Rampur Naikin area) from then on until India gained independence. The last ruler of Churhat was Rao Ran Bahadur Singhji, the elder brother of Arjun Singh.

Ambikehs Pratap Singh (Chhote Sarkar odani), who was the younger brother of raja Tryambkesh Pratap Singh Bardi khatai, is a senior leader of the Madhyapradesh congress.

Raja Kant Deo Singh of Bardi Khatai continues to live in the ancestral Haveli located on the banks of the Sone River. He is an active member of the Bharatiya Janata PartySidhi is a part of Madhya Pradesh. Sidhi is known for its natural environment, historical importance and cultural roots. Sidhi has a number of natural resources with the Sone River draining the district.

Sidhi is the birthplace of Birbal. Located in the area is the Sanjay Tiger Reserve or Sanjay National Park that tells the magnificence of the white tiger birthplace there. There is also a park, Parsili.

Divisions

Economy

The Aditya birla group cement plant over a wide area. On one side the spectrum of its floristic socio-cultural diversity and ethnic history of tribal, the district has a panoramic view of the Kaimur, Kehejua, and Ranimunda hills blazing with flowers of flame in the forest and intoxicated by the sweet smell of mahua flowers. The whole Sidhi district was a part of the Rewa state. The economy of this area is mainly based on agriculture and allied activities.

In 2006, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Sidhi one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).

Geography

Sidhi district is located on the Northeastern Boundary of the state between 22*,475 and 24.4210 North Latitude and 81:1840 and 8248*30 east longitude. The district has Singrauli district in the northeast, the Koriya district of Chhattisgarh on the southeast, Maihar district in west, and Rewa district on the northwest.

In 2024, Sidhi district has a total population of approximately 1,500,000 and Sidhi city's population is approximately 100,000, sharing almost 3.03% of the total population of former state of Madhya Pradesh in 2001.

Transportation

In town public facilities are easily available like an auto rickshaw, bus, or taxi, but there has been no available online public transport services since 2023. The district currently does not have its own railway station. The nearest railway is the Rewa railway station, Madwas or Joba railway station. Online couriers service are available. One runway is also present at Panwar in the Sidhi district (13 km away).The closest airport to Sidhi is in Rewa and is 91 kilometers away.

Demographics

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According to the 2011 census, Sidhi District has a population of 1,127,033, roughly equal to the nation of Cyprus or the U.S. state of Rhode Island. This gives it a ranking of 411th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of 232 PD/sqkm. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 23.66%. Sidhi has a sex ratio of 952 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 66.09%. 8.26% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled castes and tribes made up 11.55% and 27.80% of the population respectively.

Languages

|caption = Languages of Sidhi district (2011) |label1 = Hindi |value1 = 63.39 |color1 = orange |label2 = Bagheli |value2 = 35.65 |color2 = indianred |label3 = Others |value3 = 0.96 |color3 = grey At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 63.39% of the population in the district spoke Hindi, 35.65% spoke Bagheli, and 0.79% spoke Gondi as their first language.

Education

In 1980, at the time when Arjun Singh was the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, a committee was formed to find out more about the educational system in Sidhi district. It was tasked to find out which was the first school in Sidhi district, and who was the first graduate.

It was popularly thought that Rajasahab Madhwas was the first graduate from Sidhi. The survey further revealed that Shri Divakar Bahadur Singh, from the village Jhalwar (Churhat), was the first graduate from Allahabad University. He had done his BA in 1924 and had proceeded to do his LLB also from Allahabd University in 1926. Thereafter he had come back to practice and settle in Jhalwar (Churaht) in Sidhi district. His successors are still present in Jhalwar.

It was also found that the first school in Sidhi was in Bardi. This school had started around 100 years before the survey, around the year 1880.

Notable people

  • Ajay Pratap Singh, former Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha
  • Birbal (born Mahesh Das; village Ghoghara in Block Sihawal, Sidhi), courtier in Raja Ramchandra Singh Darbar of Baghela Dynasty
  • Arjun Singh former CM of Madhya Pradesh
  • Riti Pathak, member of Legislative Assembly, Assembly Constituency No. 77, former member of Parliament, Parliamentary Constituency No. 11 Sidhi
  • Rajesh Mishra, member of Parliament, Parliament Constituency No. 11 Sidhi
  • Kunwar Singh Tekam, member of the Legislative Assembly, Assembly Constituency No. 82 Dhauhani, former chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Tribes, Government of India, New Delhi
  • Arunoday Singh, Indian film actor
  • Rohit Singh, environmentalist currently working with Biodiversity Foundation as a Scientific Supervisor at Tughlakabad Biodiversity Park, a central government project
  • Pushpraj Singh, lawyer currently practicing at supreme court of India

Tourist places

Tourist places:

References

References

  1. Ministry of Panchayati Raj. (September 8, 2009). "A Note on the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme". National Institute of Rural Development.
  2. "Table A-02 Decadal Variation in Population Since 1901: Madhya Pradesh". [[Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India]].
  3. "Table C-01 Population By Religion: Madhya Pradesh". [[Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India]].
  4. (2011). "District Census Handbook: Sidhi". [[Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India]].
  5. US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population".
  6. "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau.
  7. "Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Madhya Pradesh". [[Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India]].
  8. https://mpstdc.com/destinations/Parsili
  9. https://www.mptourandtravels.com/sidhi/
  10. https://www.india.gov.in/places-visit-sidhi-district-madhya-pradesh

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