Introduction

Since 1960, Chandrapur district was considered as an independent district. Till the year 1874 there were three tehsils namely Mul, Warora and Bramhpuri in the district. Then in the year 1874 Godavari district of Madras state was abolished and four tehsils were added to Chandrapur district. And the headquarters of the tehsil was kept at Sironcha. In the year 1905, a new tehsil was created with headquarters at Gadchiroli. In the year 1907, a part of the zamindari of Chandrapur district was transferred to the newly created Durg district. In the same year, the three divisions of Lower Sironcha Tehsil namely Kerala, Avalak and Pugur covered an area of about 1560 sq.km. The share was transferred to the annexed Madras State. As a result of state reorganization in the year 1956, this district, formerly in Madhya Pradesh, was merged with Bombay State. In the same year Rajura Tehsil of Adilabad District of Hyderabad State was annexed to Nanded District. Then it was excluded from Nanded district and added to Chandrapur district in 1959. After the formation of Maharashtra state in 1960, Chandrapur district was counted as a district of Maharashtra state. At this time there were six talukas in the district, the district was second in size in India and first in Maharashtra. From 1st May 1981 all Panchayat Committees in the district were given the status of Tehsil. Accordingly, a total of eight taluks were included in the district instead of six. Later, for administrative convenience, the district was bifurcated on 16 August 1982 and eight new taluks namely Gadchiroli, Dhanora, Armori, Kurkheda, Chamorshi, Sironcha, Aheri and Etapalli were included in the newly created Gadchiroli district. As a result, ten talukas namely Chandrapur, Bhadravati, Varora, Chimur, Nagbhid, Bramhpuri, Sindewahi, Mul, Gondpipari and Rajuy were included in Chandrapur district. From August 15, 1993, the two taluks of Mul and Rajura were re-divided to form the two taluks of Ballarpur and Pombhurna respectively. Also since 02nd July, 2002 Rajura and Korpana talukas were divided to form Jivati taluka thus total fifteen talukas are functioning in Chandrapur district.

In order to facilitate revenue functioning Government of Maharashtra Gazette Extraordinary Part Four-B dated July 26, 2013 Extraordinary No. New revenue sub-divisional offices were established at Gondpipari, Mul, and Chimur with effect from 15 August 2013 vide Gazette No. 3. So now a total of 7 revenue sub-divisional offices are functioning in Chandrapur district.
17.7 percent of the people in the district are tribals. The proportion of tribals in Maharashtra is 9 percent of the total population. Gond, Kolam and Pradhan are the major tribes among tribals in the district.

79 percent people of the district earn their livelihood from agriculture. Rice is the main crop in the eastern parts of the district namely Nagbhid, Bramhpuri, Sindewahi and Mul, while in the rest of the taluka, sorghum, soybean, tur and cotton are the major crops.