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Dhamtari
Sign in to saveDhamtari is a municipal corporation and headquarters of the Dhamtari district in the state of Chhattisgarh, India, which is part of the Mahasamund Lok Sabha constituency formed on 6July 1998. The district is home to 3.13 percent of Chhattisgarh's total population.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Dhamtari
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Chhattisgarh#India
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- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Chhattisgarh
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- Country
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- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Chhattisgarh
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
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- Dhamtari
- Settlement.governing_body
- Nagar Nigam
- Settlement.leader_party
- BJP
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Jagadish Ramu Rohra
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 34.94
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 317
- Settlement.population_total
- 101,677
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Dhamtari is a municipal corporation and headquarters of the Dhamtari district in the state of Chhattisgarh, India, which is part of the Mahasamund Lok Sabha constituency formed on 6July 1998. The district is home to 3.13 percent of Chhattisgarh's total population.
== History == thumb|left|Missionaries in Dhamtari, India, 1932 Dhamtari's population was 17,278 in 1955. At that time, the town was part of Raipur District in the state of Madhya Pradesh. In 2000, it became part of the new Chhattisgarh state and headquarters for the Dhamtari tehsil. As a terminus of a narrow-gauge railway running north of Raipur on the main Bombay-Calcutta line of the Bengal Nagpur Railway, Dhamtari became a trade centre. Goods shipped from there included timber, shellac, morabulum nuts, beedi leaves (for cigarettes), rice and animal hides.