Country India District Kanker PIN 494 776 Population 142,240 (2011) | State Chhattisgarh Time zone IST (UTC+5:30) Telephone code 91 7844 Local time Tuesday 3:16 AM | |
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Pakhanjore is a major Nagar Panchayat (Notified Area Council) city in the Kanker district (North Baster) of Chhattisgarh state, central India. It is 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Kapsi, 72 km (45 mi) from Bhanupratappur, 186 km (116 mi) from Durg and about 224 km (139 mi) from the state capital Raipur. It is located 110 km (68 mi) towards the west from District headquarters Kanker (North Baster), and 47 km (29 mi) from Koylibeda.
Contents
- Demographics
- Pakhanjore Tehsil
- Transport
- Dandakarana project
- Colleges
- Institute
- Schools in Pakhanjore
- Pakhanjore Stadium
- Hahaladdi Iron Ore Deposit
- State Bank Of India Branch
- Pakhanjore area P3 produce highest siderophore
- Krishi Sewa Kendra Pakhanjore
- Pakhanjore or Pakhanjur
- Hospital
- Famous places to visit
- Post Office
- News and articles
- Telecommunications
- Television
- Radio
- References
Freedom fighters like Gen Singh fought against the British Raj in Paralkot (now modern Pakhanjore).
Demographics
The Pakhanjore Nagar Panchayat (Notified Area Council) has a population of 10,201 of which 5,370 are males while 4,831 are females as per report released by Census India 2011. Population of children with age of 0-6 is 1207 which is 11.83% of total population of Pakhanjore (NP). In Pakhanjore Nagar Panchayat, Female Sex ratio is of 900 against state average of 991. Moreover, Child Sex Ratio in Pakhanjore is around 904 compared to Chhattisgarh state average of 969. The literacy rate of Pakhanjore city is 86.86%, higher than state average of 70.28%. Male literacy is around 91.64% while female literacy rate is 81.54%.
Pakhanjore Tehsil
Pakhanjore (NP) is surrounded by Durgukondal Tehsil to the east, Koylibeda Tehsil to the east, Dhanora Tehsil to the west, Bhanupratappur Tehsil to the east. Gadchiroli, Dalli-Rajhara, Kanker, Durg, Bhilai, Raipur are the nearby cities.
Apart from this, there are 133 Bengali Sectors in Pakhanjore (NP)
The sub-district code of Pakhanjore block is 03354. There are about 299 villages in Pakhanjore block. Pakhanjore Nagar Panchayat, Chhattisgarh.
Transport
How to reach Pakhanjore
Railway
There is no railway station nearer to Pakhanjore than 10 kilometres (6.2 mi). However, Durg railway station is a major railway station 165 kilometres (103 mi) from Pakhanjore. The second nearest railway station to Pakhanjore is Dalli Rajhara which is located at around 76.4 kilometres (47.5 mi) distance.
The following table shows other railway stations and its distance
By Bus
Airport
Pakhanjore nearest airport is Chandrapur Airport situated at 146.9 km distance. Few more airports around Pakhanjore are as follows.
Dandakarana project
The Dandakaranya Development Authority was created by the union (central) government in 1958 to assist refugees from Pakistan. It constructed the Bhaskel Dam and Pakhanjore reservoir(kherkatta Dam); woodworking centres at Jagdalpur, Boregaon, and Umerkote; and roads and railways in the refugee resettlement areas, including the Balangir-Kozilum railway project. A factory that mainly produces aircraft engines is located at Sunabeda. The National Mineral Development Corporation works iron ore at Bailadila. Important towns are Jagdalpur, Bhawanipatna, and Koraput. The project was known as the Dandakaranya Project.
To solve an almost intractable human problem, the rehabilitation of a large number of refugees who were uprooted from their homeland in East Pakistan settled at 133 Bengali sectors and areas of Bande, Pakhanjore and Kapsi. Pakhanjore is only connected by the bus route from Durg, Raipur, Kanker, Dalli rajra, Jagdalpur, Chandrapur. Apart from this struggling life people are coming forward to study at Durg, Bhilai, and Raipur. Privatization has made Pakhanjore more popular among people.
Colleges
Year of Establishment 1989 Address: Sangam road, new market, Pakhanjore
Institute
Schools in Pakhanjore
Pakhanjore Stadium
The stadium is famous for football and cricket tournament. Every year Independence Day(15 August) and Republic Day (26 January) is celebrated in this stadium. All culcural activities and Extra co circular activities is performed there and inter school competitions are organized between them along with marchfast.
Hahaladdi Iron Ore Deposit
The project site is well connected through State highway SH-6, Kahdubari to Sumbalpur road at 11.7 km away towards NE and Pakhanjore to Bhanupratappur road at 1.5 km away in SSE direction.
State Bank Of India Branch
Pakhanjore area "P3" produce highest siderophore
The Pseudomonas fluorescens a major Rhizobacteria encourage the plant growth through producing yellowish green fluorescent siderophore involve in high affinity transport of iron into the cell. The P. fluorescens isolates grow in iron deficient media because of production capacity of siderophore depends on iron content. Fifty nine Pseudomonas fluorescens were isolated in King's B media under 260 nm wavelengths from the rhizosphere and non-rhizospheric soil of cave, forest, fellow land and agriculture field in Chhattisgarh region. The amounts of siderophore produce by P. fluorescens isolates were screen in iron deficient succinate media and most of them were found positive for the production of much siderophores. One of the isolate from Pakhanjore area "P3" produce highest siderophore, which further assessed for plant growth promotion activities of crops rice, urd, mung and arhar. The study showed significantly higher increase in root length over control plants was observed in Rice (68.45%) followed by Urd (40.1%), Mung (33.71%) and Arhar (29.53%). Similarly, significantly higher increase in shoot length over control plants was observed in Rice (68.925%) followed by Urd (43.42%), Mung (39.96%) and Arhar (19.45%). It has been shown that these bacteria competitively colonize plant roots and cause the plant statistically significant root and shoot increases by stimulating plant growth and reduce the incidence of plant disease of above mention crops under green house of tray culture conditions.
Krishi Sewa Kendra Pakhanjore
KRISHI SEVA KENDRA, is a farm of seed, pesticides and fertilizers, all types of water pump and micro irrigation system.
Pakhanjore or Pakhanjur
Pakhanjore was established in 1958 by Dandakaranya Project along with Kapsi and Bande.In an article of Thursday 22 August 1974 of Rajya Sabha Dr k. MATHEW KURIAN clearly state that the name as Pakhanjore and not Pakhanjur. The people residing there still use the official name as Pakhanjore but the people not residing there refer the name as Pakhanjur (which is wrong spelling).
Hospital
Famous places to visit
- Old Market:
- New Market
Post Office
Pin Code of Pakhanjore is 494776 and Postal Head Office is Pakhanjore Camp.