East Jaintia Hills

East Jaintia Hills District
State	Meghalaya
Administrative headquarters :	Khliehriat
Area :	2126 km²
Residents :	122,939 (2011)
Population density :	58 people / km²
Website :	official website

The East Jaintia Hills district is a district in the Indian state of Meghalaya . The administrative seat is the place Khliehriat .

geography

The East Jaintia Hills district is located in the far east of Meghalaya on the border with Bangladesh . The area of the district is 2126 square kilometers. The neighboring district is the West Jaintia Hills District to the north and west and the Indian state of Assam to the northeast, east and southeast. In the southwest the district borders on India's neighboring state Bangladesh.

history

The district was created on July 31, 2012 in its current form through the division of the former Jaintia Hills district into the two districts of East Jaintia Hills and West Jaintia Hills. The two CD blocks Khliehriat and Saipung formed the new East Jaintia Hills district.

population

According to the 2011 census, the East Jaintia Hills district has a population of 122,939. With 58 inhabitants per square kilometer, the district is rather sparsely populated. All 122,939 residents lived in rural communities.

The East Jaintia Hills district is mostly populated by members of the "tribal population" ( scheduled tribes ). They included (2011) 118,158 people (96.11 percent of the district's population). The Dalit ( scheduled castes ) numbered only 473 people in 2011 (0.38 percent of the district's population).

Population development

As everywhere in India, the population in the East Jaintia Hills district has been growing rapidly for decades. The 2001 Indian census found a population of 92,792 people. The increase in the years 2001–2011 was more than 32 percent (32.49%). In these ten years the population increased by more than 32,000 people. The population development from 1961 to 2011 was as follows:

Significant places

There is not a single urban settlement in the East Jaintia Hills District.

District population by gender

Of the 122,939 residents, 61,233 (49.81 percent) were male and 61,706 female. The excess of women is atypical for India, where there is usually a significant increase in men.

District population by language

A clear majority of the total population of the East Jaintia Hills District speaks Pnar / Synteng, which is one of the Khasi languages. Two other Khasi languages follow in second and third place with Khasi and War. There are small minorities of foreign speakers. Hindi is only spoken by a very small minority of immigrants. In the Saipung CD block, the high number of 6,491 of 37,107 inhabitants (17.49 percent) is listed under Others.

year	Pnar / Synteng		Khasi		Was		Nepali		Bengali		Garo		Hindi		Other languages		Total
year	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%
2011	100,061	81.39	7750	6.30	3885	3.16	757	0.62	618	0.50	232	0.19	219	0.18	9417	7.66	122,939	100.00%
Source: 2011 census result

Population of the district by confession

In the past 100 years, the majority of the local population has converted to Christianity. Nevertheless, an above-average number of people have remained true to their traditional religions. In both CD blocks, over 20 percent of the residents are followers of their traditional religion. The few Hindus and Muslims are mostly immigrants from other areas of India. The following table shows the exact religious composition of the population:

year	Buddhists		Christians		Hindus		Jainas		Muslims		Sikhs		Other		not specified		Total
year	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%	number	%
2011	123	0.10	88,911	72.32	2917	2.37	13	0.01	540	0.44	19th	0.02	30,246	24.60	170	0.14	122,939	100.00%
Source: 2011 census result

education

The goal of full literacy is still a long way off. Of the 93,083 people aged seven and over, 54,255 (58.29 percent) can read and write. The higher literacy of women is astonishing by Indian standards. While 57.31 percent of the male population can read and write, it is 59.24 percent of the female population. The following table provides an overview of the relationships:

Literacy in the East Jaintia Hills District
unit	2011 census
unit	number	proportion of
TOTAL	54,255	58.29%
Men	26,469	57.31%
Women	27,786	59.24%
TOTAL CITY	0	-
City men	0	-
City women	0	-
TOTAL COUNTRY	54,255	58.29%
Country men	26,469	57.31%
Country women	27,786	59.24%
Source: 2011 census result

administration

With Khliehriat and Saipung, the district has two Community Development Blocks (CD Blocks; subdistricts). On April 6, 2001, the previous CD block Khliehriat was divided into the two current CD blocks.

Individual evidence

Web links

25.21 92.21Coordinates: 25 ° 12 ′ 36 ″ N , 92 ° 12 ′ 36 ″ E

[1] District Census Handbook Jaintia Hills

[2] Handbook of Meghalaya 2008, page 16, DC Block Khliehriat

[3] Handbooks and Statistical Abstracts 1978, 1989, 1944 and 2008, figures for the CD block Khliehriat