DPEP - District Plan with Annual Work Plan For 1997-1998 Keonjhar District (Orissa)

Abstract

From Introduction: Keonjhar is one of the biggest districts in Orissa. It attracts us from the geological and anthropological point of view. Before the integration of the tributary states with Orissa on the 1st. January, 1948, the erstwhile princely state of Keonjhar emerged as one of the thirteen districts with headquarters at Keonjhargarh. The district has been named after the name of its headquarters, Keonjhar. Keonjhar is one of the three districts, other two being Mayurbhanja and Sundergarh, that have not been subjected to reorganisation of districts in 1994. Therefore, in terms of area, Keonjhar is the largest district, next only to Mayurbhanja that extends over an area of 8,303 square Kms Which constitutes 5.35 percent of the total land area of the state.