Seoni, Madhya Pradesh
Seoni | |
|---|---|
City | |
Mowgli Statue In Seoni, Mundara Wainganga Origin, Seoni Medical College, Seoni Railway Station, Dal Sagar lake | |
| Coordinates: 22°05′N 79°32′E / 22.08°N 79.53°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Madhya Pradesh |
| District | Seoni |
| Government | |
| • Type | Nagar Palika |
| • Body | Municipal Corporation Seoni |
| • District Magistrate | Ms. Sanskriti Jain IAS |
| • District Police Chief | Shri Sunil kumar mehta, IPS |
| Area | |
• Total | 50 km2 (20 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 611 m (2,005 ft) |
| Population | 102,343 |
| • Rank | 30th (MP) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 480661 |
| Telephone code | 07692 |
| ISO 3166 code | IN-MP |
| Vehicle registration | MP-22 |
| Website | seoni |
Seoni, formerly spelled Seeonee, is a city and a municipality in Seoni district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. This tribal household dominated district was formed in the year 1956.
Rudyard Kipling used the forests of the Satpura Range in the vicinity of Seoni as the setting for the Mowgli stories collected as The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book in 1894 and 1895, although the area is not an actual rainforest. Seoni is a city where the Wainganga, a tributary of the river Godavari, originates.
Seoni is reachable by trains and road. Major adjacent cities are Nagpur and Jabalpur. The National Highway 44 north–south corridor crosses from Seoni. Seoni Railway Station serves as the primary transportation hub for Seoni district and connect Seoni city to National capital (New Delhi) and State capital (Bhopal) directly via express trains .The nearest airport is Nagpur (130 km); a small airport (air-strip) is available at Seoni near Sukhtara village for landing charter airplanes/helicopters.
The Wainganga is a river in India originating in the Mahadeo Hills in Mundara near the village Gopalganj in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh. It is a key tributary of the Godavari. The river flows south in a winding course through the states of Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, roughly 579 km (360 mi). After joining the Wardha River, the united stream, which is known as the Pranahita River, empties into the Godavari River at Kaleshwaram, Telangana.