******** STATE OF INDIA(5)---------- Chhattisgarh******* ---------Feature : The state is full of ancient monuments, rare wildlife, exquisitely carved temples, Buddhist sites, palaces, water falls, caves, rock paintings and hill plateaus. ---------Chhattisgarh borders the states of Madhya Pradesh in the north-west, Maharastra in the south-west, Andhra Pradesh in the south, Odisha in the east, Jharkhand in the north-east and Uttar Pradesh in the north. -----------CAPITAL ---RAIPUR --------- Governor ; Shekhar Dutt -------- Chief Minister: Raman Singh (BJP) ------- Legislature :Unicameral (90 seats) ---------Stat e Language:Chhattisgarhi (a dialect of Hindi) --------State Animal :Van Bhainsa (Wild Buffalo) ------State Bird : Pahari Myna (Hill Myna) -------State Tree :Sal or Sarai -------Main Dance :Panthi, Rawat Nacha, Karma, Pandwani, Chaitra, Kaksar, Saila and Soowa. --------------Major companies : ###Metal: Bhilai Steel Plant, Jindal Steel and Power, BALCO ###Oil: Indian Oil Corporation ###Engineering: Simplex Casting Ltd ###Real estate: CHPL-Dream-Homes Chouhan Housing Pvt Ltd ###Mining: NMDC, SECL ### Power : NTPC,Lanco,KSK Chanmpa,Vandana Vidyut,CSPGC ----------------National parks and wildlife sanctuaries :Achanakmar Wildlife Sanctuary in the Bilaspur district, Gamarda Reserve forest at Sarangarh in the Raigarh district, Indravati National Park and Kanger Ghati National Park in the Bastar district, Barnawapara Wildlife Sanctuary in the Mahasamund district, Udanti Wildlife Sanctuary in the Raipur district, and Sitanagi Wildlife Sanctuary in the Dhamtari distric ------------------------Main rivers : Mahanadi, Indravati, Godavari, Narmada and many other. ---------------Dams : Hasdev Bango Dam (105 km from Bilaspur), Khudiya Dam, Lormi and Khutaghat Dam, Ratanpur, Gangrel Dam and Murrum Silli Dam, Dhamtari ------------Caves: Gadiya mountain in Kanker district, Kotumsar cave and Kailash Gufa in Bastar district, Ramgarh and Sita Bengra in Sarguja district -------------Waterfalls : Akuri Nala and Amrit Dhara waterfalls, Gavar Ghat waterfall, Ramdaha waterfall in Koriya district, Tiger point waterfall at Mainpat in Sarguja district and Chitrakot and Tirathgarh waterfalls in Bastar district. ---------------Tourism :. Bhoramdeo temple near Kawardha in Kabirdham district, Rajivlochan temple at Rajim and Champaran in Raipur district, Chandrahasini Devi temple at Chandrapur, Vishnu temple at Janjgir, Damudhara (Rishab Tirth) and Sivarinarayana Laxminarayana temple in Janjgir-Champa district, Bambleshwari Temple at Dongargarh in Rajnandgaon district, Danteshwari Temple in Dantewada district, .There are waterfalls ,caves also as mention above ---------------------District :27 *********************************** by dolly
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 05:50:06 +0000
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