As per the directives received from the Central Government, the Chhattisgarh Jan Dhan Yojana was launched in Chhattisgarh on the 28th august,2014 at the same time all across the country and at the State level in Raipur and at district levels and also at all the district headquarters of the State, officials stated.

1. Apna Chhattisgarh

2. Chhattisgarh, the 26th state of India is
famous for its tourism industry.
It is the 10th largest
state in India.

3. The population of the state is estimated as
25.5 million. Chhattisgarh is the 16th
most-populated state of the nation.

4. It shares its boundaries with Madhya Pradesh,
Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh,
Odisha, UttarPradesh and
Jharkhand.

5. It is a source of electricity and steel for
India. It produces 15% of the total
steel produced in the country.

6. It is the fastest-developing state comprising
27 districts. The most famous architectural
monuments are situated here in
Apna Chhattisgarh.

7. The state has achieved economic, social and
industrial development in the
recent years.

8. Regarding the fertility and land forms of
the state, the central part is fertile and the
northern and southern part are hilly.
The 44% of the state is mostly covered
with the deciduous forests of the
eastern highlands forests.

9. The van bhainsa, or wild water buffalo, mostly
found in the southern part of the state is the
state animal. The state bird is pahari myna,
or hill myna. Sal (Sarai) tree found in
Bastar division is the state tree.

10. In the northern part of the state lies the edge of the
great Indo-Gangetic plain.
A tributary of the Ganges called the
Rihand tributary of the great
Ganges river flows
through this area.

11. The rivers flowing across the state has made the
land very much useful for cultivation. The fertile
upper basin of the Mahanadi River and its
tributaries flows form the central
part of the state.

12. This area is rich in rice cultivation. The Maikal
Hills (part of the Satpuras) divides the upper
Mahanadi basin from the upper Narmada basin
to the west and the ranges of hills separate it
from the plains of Odisha to the east.

13. The watershed of the Godavari River and its
tributary, the Indravati River contributes to
the southern part of the country.

14. The Mahanadi is the important river of the
state. The other main rivers are Hasdo
(a tributary of Mahanadi) and the
Rihand River.

15. Know more at:
http://apnachhattisgarh.in/