Katraj, Solapur district

Katraj
Katraj
	village
Country	India
State	Maharashtra
District	Solapur district
Languages
• Official	Marathi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)

Last updated April 14, 2019

Katraj is a village in the Karmala taluka of Solapur district in Maharashtra state, India.

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Solapur district District of Maharashtra in India

Solapur District is a district in Maharashtra state of India. The city of Solapur is the district headquarters. It is located on the south east edge of the state and lies entirely in the Bhima and Seena basins. The entire district is drained by the Bhima River.

Maharashtra is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan plateau. It is the second-most populous state and third-largest state by area in India. Spread over 307,713 km² (118,809 sq mi), it is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana and Chhattisgarh to the east, Gujarat and Dadra and Nagar Haveli to the north west, and Madhya Pradesh to the north. It is also the world's second-most populous subnational entity. It was formed by merging the western and south-western parts of the Bombay State, Berar and Vidarbha, and the north-western parts of the Hyderabad State and splitting Saurashtra by the States Reorganisation Act. It has over 112 million inhabitants and its capital, Mumbai, has a population around 18 million making it the most populous urban area in India. Nagpur hosts the winter session of the state legislature. Pune is known as 'Oxford of the East' due to the presence of several well-known educational institutions.

Demographics

Covering 838 hectares (2,070 acres) and comprising 273 households at the time of the 2011 census of India, Katraj had a population of 1354. There were 677 males and 677 females, with 162 people being aged six or younger.^[1]

The 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved collection of information about all buildings. Information for National Population Register was also collected in the first phase, which will be used to issue a 12-digit unique identification number to all registered Indian residents by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). The second population enumeration phase was conducted between 9 and 28 February 2011. Census has been conducted in India since 1872 and 2011 marks the first time biometric information was collected. According to the provisional reports released on 31 March 2011, the Indian population increased to 1.21 billion with a decadal growth of 17.70%. Adult literacy rate increased to 74.04% with a decadal growth of 9.21%. The motto of the census was 'Our Census, Our future'.

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References

↑ "Census of India 2011: Maharashtra Series 28, Part XII District Census Handbook Solapur Primary Census Abstract" (PDF). Directorate of Census Operations Maharashtra. p. 108. Retrieved 2018-01-24.

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[1] "Census of India 2011: Maharashtra Series 28, Part XII District Census Handbook Solapur Primary Census Abstract" (PDF). Directorate of Census Operations Maharashtra. p. 108. Retrieved 2018-01-24.