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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Southwest Garo Hills district
| settlement_type = [[List of districts of Meghalaya|District]] of [[Meghalaya]]
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'''Southwest Garo Hills'''<ref>[[Meghalaya State Portal]](http://meghalaya.gov.in:8080/megportal/district_details/20325)</ref> is an administrative district in the State of [[Meghalaya]], [[India]]. The Ampati Civil Sub-Division is upgraded to a full fledged district as''' '''South West Garo Hills''', '''on 7 August 2012 with its headquarters at [[Ampati]].<ref>[[Governor Notification]] (http://meghpol.nic.in/notification/New_Dist_SWGH.pdf{{Dead link|date=July 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }})</ref> It was inaugurated by [[Mukul Sangma|Dr. Mukul Sangma]], Hon'ble [[Chief Minister (India)|Chief Minister]] of [[Meghalaya]], [[India]].

[[File:SWGH - inauguration.jpg|thumbnail|right|Inauguration of South West Garo Hills District by Chief Minister of Meghalaya, Dr. Mukul Sangma on 7 August 2012]]

==History and Creation==
The [[South West Garo Hills]] is carved out of present [[West Garo Hills]], [[Meghalaya]], [[India]]. The District comprises all the villages falling under the two Community and Rural Development Blocks,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://megcnrd.nic.in/ |title=Official Website of Community & Rural Development Department |access-date=28 July 2013 |archive-date=21 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521112353/http://megcnrd.nic.in/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> viz. [[Betasing]] and Zikzak Community and Rural Development Blocks, including 33 (thirty-three) villages under Mukdangra Gram Sevak (GS) Circle and Garobadha Gram Sevak Circle of Selsella Community & Rural Development Block, 24 (twenty-four) villages under Okkapara Songma Gram Sevak Circle and Chengkuregre Gram Sevak Circle of Gambeggre Community & Rural Development Block, 13 (thirteen) villages under Jarangkona Gram Sevak Circle of Dalu Community & Rural Development Block and Anggalgre village of Rongkhongre Gram Sevak Circle of Rongram Community & Rural Development Block.

===Reorganized Gram Sevak Circle===

After the reorganization of the Gram Sevak Circle all the villages annexed from other Community and Rural Development Blocks falls under Betasing Community and Rural Development Block, except for Jarangkona Gram Sevak Circle of Dalu Community & Rural Development Block which falls under Zikzak Community and Rural Development Block.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

==Demographics==

The population of South West Garo Hills is 1,72,495 with 87,135 male and 85,360 female population as per Census 2011, which is as per the new reorganized Gram Sevak Circle of Betasing and Zikzak Community and Rural Development Blocks. The literacy rate of the District is 56.7% as per 2011 Census. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 2,095 (1.21%) and 1,38,168 (80.10%) of the population.<ref>District Statistical Office, West Garo Hills, Tura</ref> Christianity is the dominant religion, with Hinduism and Islam second-largest religions.

===Language===
[[Garo language|Garo]] is spoken by majority of the residents of the district. [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Hajong language|Hajong]] and [[Koch language|Koch]] are the other major minority languages.

{{Pie chart
|thumb = right
|caption = Languages spoken in South West Garo Hills (2011)<ref name="censuslang">{{cite web |title=C-16 Population By Mother Tongue - South Garo Hills |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/22858/download/25989/PC01_C16_17.xls |website=censusindia.gov.in |access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref>
|label1 = [[Garo language|Garo]]
|value1 = 51.14
|color1 = gold
|label2 = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|value2 = 26.43
|color2 = salmon
|label3 = [[Koch language|Koch]]
|value3 = 5.97
|color3 = red
|label4 = Others
|value4 = 16.46
|color4 = green
}}
Garo is spoken by 88,216 people. Bengali is spoken by 45,586 whereas 10,292 people speaks Koch language.

==Notable people==
* [[Shamsul Hoque]], inaugural MLA of [[Mahendraganj Assembly constituency|Mahendraganj]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://southwestgarohills.gov.in/ Official website]

{{Geographic location
|Centre = South West Garo Hills
|North = [[West Garo Hills]], [[Meghalaya]]
|Northeast =
|East = [[West Garo Hills]], [[Meghalaya]]
|Southeast =
|South = [[Bangladesh]]
|Southwest = [[Bangladesh]]
|West = [[Bangladesh]]
|Northwest = [[Dhubri]], [[Assam]]
}}
{{Meghalaya}}

[[Category:South West Garo Hills district| ]]
[[Category:Districts of Meghalaya]]
[[Category:2012 establishments in Meghalaya]]
[[Category:Autonomous regions of India]]

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