Ghoradongri
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Ghoradhongri is located about 40 km of Betul District
Betul District
Betul District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The city of Betul serves as its administrative headquarters. The district is a part of Narmadapuram Division.-Demograpics:...

, Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....

, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. This place has a population of about 10,000. The railway station is connected to two main railway stations (nearby) i.e Itarsi Junction (in Madhya Pradesh) and Nagpur
Nagpur
Nāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...

 (in Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

). Most of the people come here by rail because of Sarni, 18 km from Ghoradongri which has an MPEB Thermal power plant and WCL - coal mines located in Pathakhera
Pathakhera
Pathakhera is a city in the municipality of Sarni in the Betul District, Madhya Pradesh, India. There Are 8 Coalmine Of WCL. Sobhapur Colony&Bagdona Are Area Of PATHAKHERA....

, about 15 km from Ghoradongri.

Major occupation for the people is working in coal
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...

 mine
Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, from an ore body, vein or seam. The term also includes the removal of soil. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, rock...

s and in the thermal power plant. Provision shops are common here in many houses. Many adiwasi called GOUND (a tribe in Madhya Pradesh) stay are near to this place. The language spoken here is Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

. This place is connected with Sarni, Betul, Itarsi via road.

New weekly market called “Gujari” has been started on Tuesdays while the Saturday weekly market still continues. Typical flavour of GOUND lifestyle can be seen at "gujari". Lot of adivasi ornaments can also be bought from this market which is in vogue in "modern world"
Latitude: 22.11667
Longitude: 78.01667
(Decimal degrees)

Latitude (DMS): 22° 7' 0 N
Longitude (DMS): 78° 1' 0 E
(Degrees, minutes and seconds)
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