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Topic: Morena District


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  Districts of Madhya Pradesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1998 and 1999, seven new districts were created: Barwani district was split from West Nimar, Dindori district was split from Mandla, Harda district was split from Hoshangabad, Katni district was split from Jabalpur, Neemuch district was split from Mandsaur, Sheopur district was split from Morena, and Umaria district was split from Shahdol.
Another nine districts were created in the eastern portion of the state, which became the new state of Chhattisgarh on November 1, 2000.
On August 15, 2003, three new districts were created; Anuppur district was split from Shahdol, Ashoknagar district was split from Guna, and Burhanpur district was split from Khandwa (East Nimar).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Districts_of_Madhya_Pradesh   (179 words)

  
 October 2002: Huge crowd honors laureates of Second Annual Sarojini Naidu Prize
Mathurabai is a Sarpanch of Gaintoli village of Morena district in Madhya Pradesh.
Durga is the Sarpanch of Sarbadi village in Sikar district.
Phooli Devi Meghwal is the Sarpanch of Deva Panchayat of Jaisalmer district.
www.thp.org /snp/2002/pieces2002.htm   (2216 words)

  
 Bhind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bhind (Hindi-भिंड) is the name of the district and headquarter town of Madhya Pradesh, India, and is situated in the northwest of the state.
It is bounded by the state of Uttar Pradesh to the north and the east, Datia to the south, Gwalior district to the southwest, and Morena District to the west (All are the districts of Madhya Pradesh).
Bhind district is surrounded by the districts of Uttar Pradesh, Agra, Etawah, Jalaun and Jhansi.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bhind   (630 words)

  
 Madhya Pradesh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
It is surrounded by District Morena in the North, District Shivpuri in the south, District Bhind in the East and District Datia in the west.
It is surrounded by Panchamahal and Baroda districts of Gujrat, Banswara district of Rajsthan and Dhar and Ratlam districts of Madhya Pradesh.
It is bounded in the west by Sehore district, in the north by Vidisha district, in the ease and south-east by Sagar district, in the south-east by Narsimhapur district, and in the south by Hoshangabad and Sehore district.
indiafocus.indiainfo.com /regional/states/madhyapradesh   (1758 words)

  
 Deaths in Morena
MYSTERY surrounds the death of large number of peacocks in the villages of Maharajpura and Sitapur in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh between June 24 and July 8.
While unofficial estimates put the toll at 80, the district administration says that 13 pe acocks died in Maharajpura during the fortnight and 31 died in Sitapur on July 7 and 8.
Morena district takes its name from the Hindi word for peacock, Mayur (the place was earlier called Mayur 1).
www.flonnet.com /fl1715/17150850.htm   (849 words)

  
 Four slain dacoits were poisoned, allege families .:. NewKerala - India's Top Online Newspaper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Morena (MP), May 26 : Families of four slain dacoits of inter-state Dhuanram Gurjar gang have alleged that they were poisoned by informers in Rajasthan, while police refuted their claims stating that the outlaws were killed in an encounter in jungles of Shobrankapura village near here.
Their bodies were taken in a boat across Chambal river to Morena where the encounter was staged." Refuting the allegations, Superintendent of Police Ravi Gupta maintained that the dacoits were killed in retaliatory fire by a police team that had cornered them in the jungles.
Over a dozen cases of dacoity, abduction and other offences were registered against the gang in Morena district alone and its members had allegdly kidnapped a teacher from the area recently and later released him on payment of ransom, he said.
www.newkerala.com /news.php?action=fullnews&id=2811   (251 words)

  
 District at a Glance
On the whole Morena district with rich agricultural tract, is in the stage of development.
The dubious diction of Morena being region of dacoits, since dacoits have been part of the life in the district, is gradually fading.
The total number of doctors working in various hospitals in Morena district are 90 and the total no. of beds in various hospitals are 464.
morena.nic.in /glance.htm   (430 words)

  
 Morena Districts Madhya Pradesh India Asia Regional
Morena and Bhind have the lowest sex ratio of 829 each, preceded closely by Gwalior and Datia with 849 and 875 respectively.
The gang operated in the Chambal ravines in Sabalgarh and Tetra police station areas of Morena district and Sheopur districts in MP and Karauli district of...
The bordering districts of the State are especially plagued by the problem...
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Regional/Asia/India/Madhya_Pradesh/Districts/Morena   (266 words)

  
 RAJASTHAN INFOLINE >Welcome to Rajasthan
It is bound on the north-east by Agra district of Uttar Pradesh, on the south by Morena district of Madhya Pradesh, on the west by Sawai Madhopur district and on the north by Bharatpur district of Rajasthan.
The district is receiving the supply of power from Hindaun and Gwalior by way of transmission through a sub-station.
Dhaulpur district is well connected with both meter guage and broad guage rail routes with Agra, Gwalior, Bharatput and Sawai Madhopur etc. The total rail length in the district is 105.15 kms.
www.rajasthaninfoline.com /rinfo/dhaulpurd.htm   (239 words)

  
 Central Ground Water Board, Ministry of Water Resources, Government of India, North Central Region, Bhopal , ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Due to canal irrigation in Morena district, a serious problem of water logging in low lying areas of upper reaches and non availability of water in tail ends of the canal system is being faced.
The surface resistivity surveys were conducted in Sonar sub-basin of Sagar and Damoh districts during January-March, 1994 with objective of identification and delineation of potential limestone aquifers.
The objective of the investigation was to assess the alluvium/ weathered thickness along the nala flowing in western side of Mohamdpur village and estimation of thickness of calcareous bed overlying clay bed in the area to decide the location, height and other design parameters of sub-surface dyke structure for artificial recharge of ground water.
www.cgwbmp.nic.in /gp-surveys.htm   (4561 words)

  
 Articles - Bhind   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Bhind is a district of Madhya Pradesh, India, and is situated in the northwest of the state.
It is bounded by Uttar Pradesh state to the north and east, Datia District to the south, Gwalior District to the southwest, and Morena District to the west.
The district's geography is characterized by its ravines, fertile land and scanty forests.
www.pilates-move.com /articles/Bhind   (463 words)

  
 Central Chronicle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
MORENA: A woman's hands were chopped with an axe over a land dispute at Pooth village of Ambah tehsil, near Morena district, Madhya Pradesh, police said on Monday.
DAMOH: Even as private schools in Patna remained closed today in protest against the kidnapping of a Delhi Public School student, this district's Hata Tehsil headquarters witnessed panic over the abduction of a sixth-standard boy from Jawahar Navodaya residential school's Neelgiri Hostel.
BHOPAL: A case against the District Coordinator, Vidisha has been reported for payment of Rs 36.41 lakh in the name of post-metric scholarship to the students of a private computer study centre situated at Vidisha on the basis of false administrative sanction.
www.centralchronicle.com /20050125/district.htm   (112 words)

  
 Indian RedCross Society
Morena Red Cross Branch has done renovation work several Govt.
Tje Branch organised 38 eye camps and examined more than 24,000 eye patients out of which 3,650 cataract operations were performed.Medical examination of 41,125 school children was done and 240 children were treated.
The branch has built tin shades in funneral places of 33 different Villages of the district, for this purpose 400 No.G.I. Sheets were donated by the M.P. Red Cross State Branch headquarters and expenditure of Rs.
mpredcross.org /contents/morena_dis_centre.html   (253 words)

  
 Gwalior - India: District Map of Madhya Pradesh
The district is well connected by Road & NH-3, NH-75 and Railway Network.
The main locations of the district are Morar, Pichhor, Dabra and Bhitarwar.
The major reservoir of the district is Harsi.
www.icaonline.org /Projects/Current/madhyapradesh/districts/dist3.htm   (78 words)

  
 Missing girls of Morena
Ritu works at Rathi Hospital, one of the hospitals in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh that have earned a reputation for turning down requests for sonographies to know the sex of the foetus.
Morena found itself at the centre of a storm in February when the local administration swooped down on nursing homes and laboratories equipped with ultrasound machines.
A case is pending in the District Judicial Magistrate's court against a clinic that was found in possession of two ultrasound machines, but had only one registration.
www.flonnet.com /fl2220/stories/20051007001904400.htm   (1479 words)

  
 Morena --  Encyclopædia Britannica
It has an area of 5,297 square miles (13,718 square km) that is divided by the Guadalquivir River into a mountainous north, crossed by the Sierra Morena, and a fertile, undulating southern plain, known as La Campiña.
The Mediterranean portion is a rugged, semiarid region that spreads between the Sierra Morena edge of the Meseta and the folded ranges...
Framed by the Cantabrian Mountains on the north and the Sierra Morena ranges on the south, the Meseta occupies about half of Spain's land area.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9053707?tocId=9053707   (563 words)

  
 The Hindu : Where wind and water play havoc
In Morena district, where Chambal is the main agent of nature's fury over 3,26,000 hectares of the total 4,36,200 hectares of cultivable land have now turned unproductive due to ravines and degradation.
Gopal Singh of Rubra village in Amba tehsil of Morena testifies that his village had been relocated twice in the past decade and the new place too is under threat.
The ravines in the village are 30-40 metres deep and the locals, not in a position to cultivate their land have taken refuge in nearby towns as labourers.
www.hinduonnet.com /2001/06/14/stories/1414212z.htm   (709 words)

  
 Moonlit Taj entralls hundreds; Policeman kills seven colleagues in Kashmir; Rail engine mows down 14 boys near Bhopal; ...
District Collector Sanjay Shukla reached the station to take stock of the situation and announced ex gratia relief of one lakh rupees to the families of each deceased, and 25,000 rupees to those of the injured.
Morena (MP): A mysterious disease has claimed the lives of eight people in Madhya Pradesh's Morena District.
The Morena CMO has also visited this area and even I have visited the area many times," claimed Dr. H S Sagar, the Block Medical Officer of Kailash.
www.indiatraveltimes.com /news/news2004/nov04/nov2804_news.html   (675 words)

  
 Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Church attacked, priest beaten up   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Morena, (Madhya Pradesh): A catholic church was attacked and its priest beaten up by some unidentified armed miscreants at Peeparipura village in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh late Monday night.
District Superintendent of Police Vijay Kumar said the miscreants forcibly entered the church and assaulted its 65-year old priest Father Alface, who lived alone inside the church, with iron rods.
Senior officials, including District collector Pramod Agarwal, had rushed to the spot in the night soon after the report was filed by the nuns, who resided nearby, he said.
newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/11/29/church.html   (168 words)

  
 Ekta Parishad : Madhya Pradesh
Located at Joura in Morena district of the Chambal region, it was the earliest one to take root under the able leadership of Gandhian Subba Rao.
In Bundelkhad region Damoh district, the chief of women's group is Narmada Bai of Kumhari village.
In the Mahakaushal region of Mandla (district) of Mavyi village.
www.ektaparishad.org /mp.htm   (2511 words)

  
 rediff.com: 29 more peacocks die as toll mounts to 80
Twenty-nine more peacocks were found dead on Saturday in Sitapur village of Morena district in Madhya Pradesh taking the death toll in the past few days to 80.
Confirming the deaths, District Collector Pramod Agrawal said that these deaths were also due to the birds consuming bajra contaminated by pesticides.
However, the district collector has said no person could be booked for the deaths as there was no prima-facie evidence.
www.rediff.com /news/2000/jul/08bird.htm   (233 words)

  
 F L A I R
Ravines are gobbling up whole villages and communities in Bhind and Morena districts in Madhya Pradesh, destroying their houses and wasting away the soil.
It’s estimated that ravines have affected 948 villages in Bhind and Morena districts.
Scientists explain that in the specific context of Bhind and Morena districts, the light and alluvial kind of soil, coupled with deforestation, increasing population pressure, faulty irrigation projects and short-term developmental schemes seemed to have fuelled the formation of ravines.
www.expressindia.com /flair/20010603/fla0603b.html   (1017 words)

  
 Morena - India: District Map of Madhya Pradesh
Morena is located at northern part of Madhya Pradesh.
The district is well connected by Road & NH-3 and Railway Network.
Some of the main locations are Sabalgarh, Kailaras, Jora, Morena, Ambah and Porsa.
www.icaonline.org /Projects/Current/madhyapradesh/districts/dist4.htm   (70 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Chambal, May 6: Fatwas to vote for and against certain candidates have been issued in northern Madhya Pradesh around Bhind, Morena and Gwalior by Nirbhay Gujar, Dadua, Hafizullah, Seema Parihar and Kusuma Nayen ahead of polling on May 10.
In Bhind district, 587 polling stations have been declared “sensitive”.
The same goes for 531 of the 14,824 polling booths in neighbouring Morena district.
www.telegraphindia.com /1040507/asp/nation/story_3217088.asp   (430 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT: MP strives to get rid of prostitution in tribes
Twenty rehabilitated prostitutes were married off by the state government in Raisen district, while at Ganjbasauda in Vidisha district, a prostitute was even elected sarpanch, the spokesperson said.
Nearly 100 children of prostitutes availed of the facilities at the ashrams run by the state government in Morena district.
The Banchhara mainly inhabit the districts of Mandsaur, Ujjain, Indore, Shajapur and Ratlam, while the Bedias are widely spread out in 16 districts.
www.rediff.com /news/aug/11mp.htm   (753 words)

  
 [Fwd: Series on Padyatra - III, by Rahul Ramagundam (fwd)] , (fwd), Subramanya Sastry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
At Khurjan, in the Sheopur district, the marchers were shown a stretch of land with remains of burnt shoots.
The land which belonged to a tribal person and which he had been tilling for more than twenty years and had necessary legal entitlement for the revenue department was suddenly claimed by the forest department as belonging to them.
At Kannar in the Morena District on 4th January, the 25th day of Padyatra, Rajaji was measured by coins.
www.cs.wisc.edu /~param/asha/info/35370.html   (1286 words)

  
 Rediff On The NeT: Run-up to the Madhya Pradesh assembly election
After Morena the condition of the road deteriorated -- we passed a herd of camels that had come to graze from Rajasthan.
Among the nine constituencies in Morena district, the most violent campaign is slated to take place in Sumawali.
While Gwalior throbs with life, Morena is scary to the outsider.
www.rediff.com /news/1998/nov/21ganesh.htm   (904 words)

  
 Add new comment | NextBillion.net - Development Through Enterprise
In the Morena District in the state of Madhya Pradesh, India, an illiterate woman approaches the local soochak, the manager of an Internet kiosk.
She complains about a water well that is not operating, and the soochak, for a small fee, uses a PC to enter her complaint on an electronic form, uploading it to a local hub, where it is registered with the authorities.
The hub is an office housed in the main government building of whatever district the kiosk is in.
www.nextbillion.net /comment/reply/1604   (4130 words)

  
 Planet Ark   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
Until Saturday morning, 12 peacocks had died after eating the toxic grain in the state's Morena district, 520 km (325 miles) north of the provincial capital, Bhopal.
District official Pramod Agrawal told Reuters the exact cause of the deaths would only be known after a forensic science laboratory finished analysing samples taken from the dead birds.
Officials said the impact of the pesticides was particularly severe because there had been no rain for the last six days to reduce their toxicity.
www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=7404   (201 words)

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