Sakti, Chhattisgarh

Sakti is located at 22.03°N 82.97°E / 22.03; 82.97.[2] It has an average elevation of 237 metres (777 feet).

Sakti is situated on the banks of Borai river. Which comes in the drainage system of Mand river, The Mand river originates from the Mand mountain range.

Sakti district is surrounded by Korba district in the North-West, Janjgir-Champa District in the West, Raigarh district in the East, Sarangarh district in the South.

During the British Raj era, Sakti was the capital of Sakti State, one of several princely states of the Eastern States Agency.[3]

The rulers of this princely state bore the title of 'Rana'.

• .... – .... Rudra Singh
• .... – .... Udai Singh
• .... – .... Kiwat Singh
• .... – .... Kagan Singh
• .... – 1837 Kalandar Singh
• 1837–19 Jun 1850 Vacant
• 19 Jun 1850 – 1875 Ranjit Singh (b. 1836 – d. ....)
• 1875 – Feb 1892 Vacant
• Feb 1892 – Jul 1914 Rup Narayan Singh
• 4 July 1914 – 15 August 1947 Liladhar Singh (b. 1892 – d. 19..)

on 15th August, 2021, by Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh, Sakti was announced as new district of Chhattisgarh alongside Mohla Manpur, Sarangarh-Bilaigarh & Manendragarh. Raising the total number of districts in Chhattisgarh to 32.[4]

Sakti has a tropical wet and dry climate. Temperatures remain moderate through most of the year, though not from March to June, which can be extremely hot. The temperature in April–May sometimes rises above 44 °C. These summer months also have dry and hot winds. The city receives about 1,300 millimeters (51 in) of rain, mostly in the monsoon season from late June to early October. Winters last from November to January and are mild, although lowest temperature can fall upto 5 °C (41 °F). The entire area including Sakti is passing through a severe shortage of drinking water. Groundwater is hard and resources are limited. If the problem of drinking water is not met timely, the entire terrain may be converted into the desert in the years to come.

The Sakti city is divided into 18 wards for which elections are held every 5 years. The Sakti Municipality has population of 21,955 of which 11,111 are males while 10,844 are females as per report released by Census India 2011.

Sakti Railway Station

Sakti has a Railway Station on the Tatanagar–Bilaspur section of Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line. Major trains stop here including Mumbai-Howrah Mail since beginning. It is also connected through National Highway No.200.

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Sakti

There are many private and government schools and colleges in Sakti, some of them are:

Schools

• Gunjan Education Centre High School, Sakti
• Saraswati Shishu Mandir, Sakti[5] (one of the oldest school of Sakti, established in 1957)
• Govt. G.H.M.S. Sakti
• M.L.Jain H.S. School Sakti (First English Medium School of Sakti, established in the 1980s)
• Anunay Convent Ms Sakti
• Prakhar public school (PPS), Navdha Chowk, Sakti
• Little flower English Medium School
• Adarsh B. Ms. Sakti
• J.B.D.A.V.Sch. Sakti
• Arunodaya Model C.S. Sakti
• Gitanjali Public School, Sakti
• Jindal World School, Sakti
• Bal Shramik V. Sakti,
• Govt. M.S. Kaserpara, Sakti
• Navjeevan Mukbadhir School Sakti
• Govt. P.S.Sarwani Sakti
• NPS Akharabhatha Sakti
• NPS Sosaiti Chaowk Sakti
• Ps. Sadar Boys Sakti
• Ps. Steshion Para (Sakti)
• Shishu Bharati P.M.S. Sakti,
• UPS Sadar Sakti
• Ps. Sadar Girls Sakti

Colleges

• J.L.N College Sakti

• Government Kranti Kumar Bhartiya Collage Jetha Sakti

• Government Atal Bihari Vajpayee College Nagarda Sakti

• Shyam Shiksha Mahavidyalaya Damaudhara Sakti

• Shri Balaji College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Damaudhara Sakti

• Dr. Sanjay Alung-Chhattisgarh ki Riyaste/Princely stastes aur Jamindariyaa (Vaibhav Prakashan, Raipur1, ISBN 81-89244-96-5)
• Dr. Sanjay Alung-Chhattisgarh ki Janjaatiyaa/Tribes aur Jatiyaa/Castes (Mansi publication, Delhi6, ISBN 978-81-89559-32-8)

• Lethbridge, Roper (1893). The Golden Book of India. MacMillan & Co. p. 475.