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Indore district
Summary
The Indore District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. It is believed that the city is named after its Indreshwar Mahadev Temple, Where Indra is the presiding deity. The Gupta inscriptions name Indore as "Indrapura". It is also called the administrative capital. This district forms part of the Indore Division.
As of 2011, it was the most populous of the 50 districts in Madhya Pradesh.
The Indore District has an area of 3,898 km2 and borders the districts of Ujjain to the north, Dewas to the east, Khargone (West Nimar) to the south, and Dhar to the west.
The two main rivers of the Indore district are the Chambal, in the west, (originating in the Vindhya range south of Mhow) and the Kshipra, a tributary of the Chambal river, in the east. Other small rivers include the Gambhir and the Kanh, both tributaries of the Kshipra river.
Indore is the administrative centre and main city in the district. Dr. Ambedkar Nagar (Mhow) is an important cantonment town in the Indore District that contains three of the Indian Army's premier training institutes, as well as the Border Security Force's Central School of Weapons and Tactics (CSWT). Other towns in Indore include Depalpur, Sanwer and Hatod.
The municipalities of Indore district are listed as follows:
Indore
Betma
Depalpur
Goutampura
Hatod
Manpur
Mhowgaon
Rau
Sanwer
Mothala
The Indore district has 10 administrative divisions (tehsils) :
Bicholi Hapsi
Depalpur
Dr. Ambedkar Nagar
Hatod
Juni Indore
Kanadia
Khudel
Malharganj
Rau
Sanwer
There are also four blocks in the district, with 51 police stations.
Indore
Dr. Ambedkar Nagar
Sanwer
Depalpur
There are a total of 335 Panchayats and 649 villages in the four blocks.
In May 2019, Shankar Lalwani of Bharatiya Janata Party had been elected as the Member of Parliament from Indore constituency.
The previous member of the Lok Sabha from the Indore constituency was Sumitra Mahajan of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She was a Member of Parliament from 1989 to May 2019.
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