Districts and Administration of Chhattisgarh: It has twenty seven districts. Each district is governed by a District Collector, an officer from the Indian Administrative Service. The District Collector has a lot of power and responsibility. A District Magistrate is responsible for law and order in the district and an official from the Indian Forest Services is responsible for the environment, forests and conservation in the district.
List of Districts in Chhattisgarh
S No. | District | Headquarters | Population (Census 2011) | Sex Ratio (per 1000) | Average Literacy |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Balod | Balod | |||
2 | Baloda Bazar | Baloda Bazar | |||
3 | Balrampur | Balrampur | |||
4 | Bastar | Jagdalpur | 1,413,199 | 1023 | 54.4% |
5 | Bemetara | Bemetara | |||
6 | Bijapur | Bijapur | 255,230 | 984 | 40.86% |
7 | Bilaspur | Bilaspur | 2,663,629 | 971 | 70.78% |
8 | Dantewada | Dantewada | 533,638 | 1020 | 42.12% |
9 | Dhamtari | Dhamtari | 799,781 | 1010 | 78.36% |
10 | Durg | Durg | 3,343,872 | 988 | 79.06% |
11 | Gariaband | Gariaband | |||
12 | Janjgir Champa | Naila Janjgir | 1,619,707 | 986 | 73.07% |
13 | Jashpur | Jashpur Nagar | 851,669 | 1005 | 67.92% |
14 | Kabirdham | Kawardha | 822,526 | 996 | 60.85% |
15 | Kanker | Kanker | 748,941 | 1006 | 70.29% |
16 | Kondagaon | Kondagaon | |||
17 | Korba | Korba | 1,206,640 | 969 | 72.37% |
18 | Koriya | Baikunthpur | 658,917 | 968 | 70.64% |
19 | Mahasamund | Mahasamund | 1,032,754 | 1017 | 71.02% |
20 | Mungeli | Mungeli | |||
21 | Narayanpur | Narayanpur | 139,820 | 994 | 48.62% |
22 | Raigarh | Raigarh | 1,493,984 | 991 | 73.26% |
23 | Raipur | Raipur | 4,063,872 | 984 | 75.56% |
24 | Rajnandgaon | Rajnandgaon | 1,537,133 | 1015 | 75.96% |
25 | Sukma | Sukma | |||
26 | Surajpur | Surajpur | |||
27 | Surguja | Ambikapur | 2,359,886 | 978 | 60.01% |
ABMOD
Last Updated on: October 06, 2023