The state of Chhattisgarh which has been a

brand new addition to the Indian family of

states is the culmination of the hopes and

desires of an indigenous people.

As the state of Apna Chhattisgarh is a

house for natural resources therefore the

need to preserve their distinctive culture is

very important.

The brand new state of Apna Chhattisgarh has a

short immediate history but a past that goes

back many thousands of years.

In Chhattisgarh, anthropologists have found

evidence of some of the earliest settlements by

humans in this part of the world.

Mythological history of Chhattisgarh stretches

back to the period of epics Ramayana and

Mahabharata when the area was known as

Danda karanya.

The region was called Dakshin Kosala in the

4th century AD and was known as Gondwana in

the medieval period.

Apna Chhattisgarh continues to be an agrarian

economy dependent on the rains with its largest

producer of rice in the Central India.

Chhattisgarh has its enormous mineral wealth

and abundance of natural resources.

Chhattisgarh is popularly known as the rice

bowl as it produces enough rice to supply 600

rice mills within the state and in neighboring

Madhya Pradesh.

Its vast reserves of mineral deposits include

iron-ore, copper-ore, rock phosphate,

manganese-ore, bauxite, coal, asbestos and

mica.

Major industries of the state are iron and steel,

power generation and mining.

Revenue generated from the mining of bauxite,

corundum, dolomite, diamond, limestone, iron

ore, tin ore, gold, china clay, quartz, silica,

fireclay, fluorite and coal alone touches Rs. 450

croremarks.

Chhattisgarh was long part of the state of

Madhya Pradesh despite intrinsic differences

in culture, language and ethnicity.

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