In 1967, Kashipur block from Kalahandi district was transferred to Rayagada district for administrative reason.
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31 Facts About Kalahandi district
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The Nagas of Kalahandi district are the only dynasty in Odisha having a record of thousand years.
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In 1967, Kashipur block of Kalahandi district was transferred to Rayagada division for administrative purpose.
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Kalahandi district hit the headlines in newspapers for the repeated drought situation that has broken the economic backbone of the cultivators.
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The state's Bureau of Statistics and Economics has analyzed the rainfall of South Western Kalahandi district and has reported that "there is a year of drought in every three or four years".
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Kalahandi district has been in the news since the middle of the 1980s when India Today reported sale of a child by its parents due to financial crisis.
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That article led the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi to pay a visit to the Kalahandi district and brought the Kalahandi district to the attention of the national stage for its acute poverty and famine.
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Nonetheless, Kalahandi district has not been able to take off despite of hosts of programmes, largely because of lacuna at implementation stage.
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Kalahandi district is more often used a symbol of backwardness in popular media and among politicians or social workers.
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Kalahandi district film made by Indian film director Gautam Ghose received critical notice.
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Bhakta Charan Das, as third time Indian National Congress MP from the Kalahandi district did not receive any Union Ministry in Manmohan Singh's Ministry.
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Kalahandi district highlighted for starvation and poverty is often marginalised in Odisha state and Indian national politics.
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Tall claims for developing Kalahandi district, little was done for long-term sustainable development in higher education, national highway, railway and industry during those leadership at Delhi.
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Kalahandi district has been divided into two sub-divisions namely Bhawanipatna subdivision and Dharamgarh subdivision and 13 blocks.
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However, in 1948 princely state of Kalahandi district was merged as part of Odisha state and this could not be materialized.
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Similarly water shades in Tel river for irrigation in Kalahandi district is one of the basic demands of local farmers which is not getting Government support.
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Since 1988 people of Kalahandi are seriously demanding a Central University in Kalahandi as it is central to all KBK districts and has good railway connectivity to major cities in India from Kesinga railway station.
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When Government of India announced to establish 12 Central Universities in various states not having any Central University across India which included Odisha, a delegation from Kalahandi district consisting intellectuals, general people and politicians met Odisha's Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in May 2008 to establish the Central University in Kalahandi district.
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People of Kalahandi sent the land details through district of Collector of Kalahandi in July 2008.
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Again a team from Kalahandi district visited Chief minister immediately after the announcement and Chief minister of Odisha promised visiting delegation of Kalahandi district to establish a Government Engineering and Agriculture Colleges in Bhawanipatna.
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Since 2008, non-resident Indian of Kalahandi district origin have initiated and appealed to establish a railway factory in the backward KBK region.
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The Kalahandi district headquarters is at Bhawanipatna which stands almost in the central location of the Kalahandi district.
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The Kalahandi district is primarily agricultural, with over one third of the Kalahandi district area covered with dense jungle forest.
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Kalahandi district supplied substantial raw materials to paper mills in neighbouring Rayagada and Jeypore.
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The Kalahandi district has a population density of 199 inhabitants per square kilometre.
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In pre-independence period Kalahandi district was largely inspired to Saivaism, Vaishanivism and Shakti puja.
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Kalahandi district is a rich land in terms of art and craft.
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Kalahandi district has the wide varieties of dance forms comprising tribal and non-tribal dance.
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Kalahandi district region has taken a leading rule in popularising and retaining its unique identity of Ghumura dance.
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