Pakhanjore

Pakhanjore City पखांजूर Pakhanjore Tehsil
Urban Agglomeration
Nickname(s): Pakhanjor
Pakhanjore City Show map of Chhattisgarh Pakhanjore City Show map of India Location in Chhattisgarh, India
Coordinates: 20°18′N 81°12′E / 20.3°N 81.2°E / 20.3; 81.2Coordinates: 20°18′N 81°12′E / 20.3°N 81.2°E / 20.3; 81.2
Country	India
State	Chhattisgarh
District	Kanker
Government
• Type	Nagar Panchayat (Notified Area Council)
Population (2011)
• Total	142,240
Languages
• Official	Bengali, Hindi, Chhattisgarhi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	494 776
Telephone code	91 7844
Vehicle registration	CG 19
Sex ratio	991 ♂/900♀

Pakhanjore (Hindi : पखांजूर)^[1] 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),^[2][3] and 47 km (29 mi) from Koylibeda.^[4]

Pakhanjore is a combination of two word Pakhan + Jore = Pakhanjore which means Boss of two (Pakhan- in Russian means "Boss" and Jore- in Bengali means "two") or Boss god will uplift (Jore in Israeli means "God will uplift").

Freedom fighters like Gen Singh fought against the British Raj in Paralkot (now modern Pakhanjore).^[5]

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.^[6] 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.^[7]

kherkatta Dam

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.^[8]

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.

kali mandir Pakhanjore

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.^[9]

Education

Colleges

shiv mandir Pakhanjore

• Government Veer Gaind Singh College Pakhanjore^[10]

Year of Establishment 1989 Address: Sangam road, new market, Pakhanjore

Institute

• Industrial Training Institute (ITI)^[11]
• IL&FS Skill Schools-Nai Disha Education Seva Samiti (Global Info Services, Pakhanjore)^[12]

Pakhanjore

Schools in Pakhanjore

• Aradhana Convent Higher Secondary School, Pakhanjore (22140134109)
• Higher Secondary School Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Pakhanjore (22140134103)
• Shri Shri Ramkrishna Vidyapith Higher Secondary School, Pakhanjore (22140134111)
• Satyanand Higher Secondary School, Pakhanjore (22140134107)
• Govt. Higher secondary School, Pakhanjore
• Marathi Primary School, Pakhanjore
• Nivedita Vidya pith High School, Pakhanjore
• Life Academy School, Pakhanjore^[13][14]
• Govt. Primary School, Pakhanjore
• Govt. Middle School Sohagaon, pakhanjore

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Sports

Pakhanjore Stadium

The stadium is famous for football and cricket tournament.^[17] 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.

Economy

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. ^[18]

State Bank Of India Branch

view of Pakhanjore mela

• STATE BANK OF INDIA - PAKHANJORE (SBI Pakhanjore)
• Bank : State Bank Of India
• Branch :Pakhanjore
• IFSC Code :SBIN0003271 (5th character is zero)
• MICR Code :494002152
• Branch Code :003271 (Last 6 Characters of the IFSC Code)
• Address :Pakhanjore Dist Kanker Chhattisgarh 494776
• Contact :07780-231235,231634^[19]

Agriculture

Pakhanjore area "P3" produce highest siderophore

Agriculture Field Pakhanjore

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.^[20]

Krishi Sewa Kendra Pakhanjore

KRISHI SEVA KENDRA, is a farm of seed, pesticides and fertilizers, all types of water pump and micro irrigation system.^[21]

History

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^[22] 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).

Health and Care

Hospital

• Government Civil Hospital Pakhanjore (HC_Id 0660000)^[23]
• Pvt Vandana Hospital Pakhanjore
• Veterinary Hospital Pakhanjore^[24]

Famous places to visit

• Kherkatta Reservoir (Kharkhatta dam/Pakhanjore Reservoir) which is situated near Kapsi.^[25]
• Nara Narayan Sevasram^[26]
• Kali mandir^[27]
• Pakhanjore Mela : Pakhanjore mela (Nara Narayan Mela) starts from 14 January to 22 January every year. People from different place come to see this mela, even foreigners come to visit.^[28]
• Markets: There are two market places in the city;

1. Old Market:^[29]
2. New Market

• Hahaladi Pahari Mandir, Durgkondal.
• Tak Pahar, (Distance 6 km from Pakhanjore)
• Chota Ashram the famous picnic point in Pakhanjore.(Distance 4 km from Pakhanjore)
• Mixed Farm (Distance 5 km from Pakhanjore)

Media and communication

Post Office

Pin Code of Pakhanjore is 494776 and Postal Head Office is Pakhanjore Camp.^[30]

News and articles

• Three policemen killed, 18 injured in Naxal blast :^[31]
• Magazine- Mission Challenge: Mission Pakhanjore :^[32]
• Telegraph News FrontPage^[33]
• The Tulsi Trust^[34]

Telecommunications

• BSNL 3G & 2G . BSNL

Television

• Airtel digital TV, Dish TV, Reliance Digital TV, TATA Sky, Videocon D2H, Big Tv

Radio

• All India Radio

See also

References