Ghoradhongri is a town located about 40 km from Betul City,

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Ghoradongri
Town
Ghoradongri Railway Station
Ghoradongri Location in Madhya Pradesh, India Show map of Madhya Pradesh Ghoradongri Ghoradongri (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 22°7′22″N 78°0′9″E
Country	India
State	Madhya Pradesh
District	Betul District
Founded by	Adivasi
Talukas	Ghoradongri
Government
• Type	Tahsildar
• Body	Tahsil
Area
• Total	56 km2 (22 sq mi)
Population
• Total	13,000
• Density	230/km2 (600/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Hindi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	460443
Telephone code	07146
Vehicle registration	MP 48-
Ghoradongri	Ghoradongri
Betul	sub tropical (Köppen)

Madhya Pradesh, India. It has a population of about 13,000. This town is connected with Sarni, Betul, Itarsi via road. The railway station is connected to two main railway stations- Itarsi Junction (in Madhya Pradesh) and Nagpur (in Maharashtra). Some people travel there by rail because of Sarni, 18 km away which has an MPEB Thermal power plant and WCL - coal mines located in Pathakhera, about 15 km away. The major occupations for residents are working in coal mines and in the local thermal power plant.

History

Ghoradongari started as a railway station on the main railway line joining New Delhi with Madras(now Chennai). It was a large trading post for the teak wood and charcoal extracted from the nearby forests and shipped via rail to all parts of northern half of India.

This industry mostly collapsed after the nationalization of teak extraction in the late 1960's.

Most of the economy of Ghoradongri since the time has been connected to it being transit point to the city of Sarni where Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board (MPEB), the state owned power company has built a large coal-fired power plant.

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