Welcome to Amravati's Official Homepage

Hello everyone and welcome to Amravati's only Official site.

This is the place where no riot's take place.The place of peace. Yeah this is the place where smt. Pratibahatai Patil Married.
Amravati is been improving very aggresively since the First lady President of India i.e Smt. Pratibha Patil was elected as the President.

There have been an large ammount of constructions in amravati in latest.....
The gadge nagar small fly-over has been a very successful construction as the larger fly-over from Old-Cotton market to Rajapeth has been started...
People describe Amravati in one word as 'Heaven'.

There are many Hang-out Places in Amravati such as Chikhal-Dara,Kondeshwar,Muktagiri,and Upper-Wardha Dam at Morshi..

HISTORY OF AMRAVATI
                 Amravati District with the rest of the Berar was assigned to the East India Company by the Nizam following the treaty of 1853. After this province was assigned to the Company, it was divided into two districts, South Berar with its headquarters at Hingoli with neighbouring region restored to the Nizam and North Berar was reconstituted into East Berar with headquarters at Akola.
                 In 1864,the district of Yeotmal was separated from Amravati.In 1903, the Treaties of Assignment were superseded by an agreement under which the Nizam leased Berar to the Government of India in perpetuity. Berar was joined to the central provinces in 1903 to form the enlarged province of central provinces and Berar.
                 With the recognition of States in1956,Amravati district ,along with other districts of Vidarbha region was included in the then Bilingual Bombay State. Since the bifurcation of Bombay state into Maharashtra and Gujrat in 1960, Amravati,along with other districts of Vidharbha formed one of the districts of Maharashtra.

LOCATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS
                            The district is located between 21⁰46' North to 20⁰32' North and 78⁰27' East to 76⁰37', which essentially indicates that Amravati District is located in the Deccan plateau. Amravati district covers an area of 12626 sq.kms.The districts adjacent to Amravati are Nagpur, Akola, Wardha, Yeotmal, and the state of Madhya Pradesh.
The district is divided into 14 Talukas and six sub-divisions as per details given below.

Sub-Divisions	Talukas within the sub-division
Amravati	Amravati,Bhatukali and Nandgaon Khandeshwar
Daryapur	Daryapur and Anjangaon
Achalpur	Achalpur and Chandur Bazar
Morshi	Morshi and Warud
Dharni	Dharni and Chikhaldara
Chandur (Rly)	Chandur (Rly),Tiosa and Dhamangaon

CLIMATE AND RAINFALL
Amravati faces extreme variations in temperature with very hot summers and very cold winters. Amravati district receives rainfall from south westerly monsoons mainly in the months of June, July, August and September. July and August are the months during which the maximum rainfall as well as maximum continuous rainfall.

AGRICULTURE AND CROPS
The main agriculture crops in the district along with the market area are given in the table below.

Types	Names	Area (Ha)	Market (District, State, Export)
Major Crops (Irrigated)	Wheat Gram	12980 9480	District District/State
Major Crops (Non-Irrigated)	Cotton Jawar Toor Moong Groundnut Sesamun Soyabean Gram Sunflower	368230 129640 83680 35350 10470 4750 92180 26765 19120	State/Export District/State District/State District/State District/State District/State District/State District/State District/State
Major Cash Crops	Cotton Orange Groundnut Soyabean Chilli Banana	368230 57650 10430 92180 3113 224	State/Export State/Export District/State District/State District/State District/State
Major Plantations	Orange Banana	57650 424	State/Export District/State