There are direct trains to Delhi Jhansi, Bhopal, Indore, and Ujjain. Chhatarpur has railway station named Maharaja chhatrasal station Chhatarpur, MCSC. Swami Pranawanand Homeopathic Medical College is affiliated to Madhya Pradesh Medical Science University, Jabalpur.Ĭhhatarpur can be reached by road and railway. Christian English College is the only CISCE- affiliated school of the city. College and Digital Institute of Science & Technology are the premier institutions of graduate and post-graduate education in the city. They offer graduate and post-graduate courses in the faculties of Arts, Science, Commerce, Education and Law. Most of the colleges in Chhatarpur district are affiliated to Maharaja Chhatrasal Bundelkhand University, Chhatarpur. India's largest chain schooling Kendriya Vidyalaya Chhatarpur is situated at Mahoba Road near RTO office The district is divided into 5 police subdivisions, with 34 Police Stations and 21 outposts. This region is in a drought-affected area, so the whole district faces a water crisis for farming and potable drinking water.Ĭhhatarpur Police is a Law enforcing unit of MP Police which protects the world heritage " Khajuraho Group of Monuments". Most depend for their livelihood on farming. There are many granite mining industries operating in Chhatarpur district. The city however, has a growing private commercial sector, mainly retail businesses. The economy is mostly dependent on farming. There is no large scale industry in Chhatarpur apart from a few small scale industries available, but these industries are not sufficient for giving enough employment to local people. 15% of the population is under 6 years of age. Chhatarpur has an average literacy rate of 69%: with male literacy of 75% and female literacy of 62%. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. It is located on the far north-east border of Madhya Pradesh.It is 133 km from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh and 233 km from Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh.Īs of 2011 India census, Chhatarpur had a population of 99 519. It has an average elevation of 305 metres (1,000 feet). 2006) Īfter the independence of India in 1947, the Rajas of Chhatarpur acceded to India, and Chhatarpur, together with the rest of Bundelkhand, became part of the Indian state of Vindhya Pradesh.
( – 20 December 1731) Maharaja Chhatrasal.The state also contained the British cantonment of Nowgong. In 1901 the town of Chhatarpur had a population of 10,029, a high school and manufactured paper and coarse cutlery. The Ponwar Rajas ruled a princely state with an area of 1,118 square miles (2,900 km 2), and population of 156,139 in 1901, which was part of the Bundelkhand agency of Central India. In 1854 Chhatarpur would have lapsed to the British government for want of direct heirs under the doctrine of lapse, but was conferred on Jagat Raj as a special act of grace. The state was guaranteed to Kunwar Sone Singh Ponwar in 1806 by the British Raj.
At that time the Ponwar clan of the Rajputs took control of Chhatarpur. The state was ruled by his descendants until 1785. Chhatarpur was founded in 1785 and is named after leader Chhatrasal, the founder of Bundelkhand independence, and contains his cenotaph.
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