Durg

Durg is a city in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh, east of the Shivnath River, headquarters of Durg District and part of the Durg-Bhilai urban agglomeration, which had an urban population of 1,064,077 and is the second most populous urban area in the state after Raipur. The English Wikipedia article says the town was founded about the tenth century by Jagpal, who came from Badhal Desh in Mirzapur and became a treasury officer of the Kalachuri king, and was rewarded with a land grant of Durg with 700 villages. Its original name, Shiva Durg, means fort on the Shivnath, and the fort was the headquarters of one of the 18 Garhs of the Kalachuri kings. In 2011 the Durg Municipal Corporation had 268,679 residents, 136,537 of them male and 132,142 female, with an effective literacy rate of 87.94 percent.