GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISIONS

The territory which now forms Wardha district was a part of Nagpur district until 1862, when it was made a separate district on the ground that Nagpur was too large a district and that the interest of the very valuable cotton industry in this part of the Wardha valley needed special supervision. The district headquarters were first located at Kaotha near Pulgaon but were later transferred to the present site which was then village Palakwadi and which was named as Wardha after the name of river Wardha.

The district now covers an area of 6,304.1 Km² (2,434 square miles) and has, according to 1961 census, a population of 634,277. For administrative purposes, the district is divided into three tahsils, viz., Arvi, Hinganghat and Wardha. There are three prants or sub-divisions each comprising one tahsil. The administrative divisions as they stand at present are shown below.

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