Dharni (CT) is a Nagar Panchayat and Census Town city in Amravati district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
It is the headquarters of Dharni tehsil and forms the terminus of the high road through the hills from Paratwada to Burhanpur.
Dharni Census Town has total administration over 3,234 houses to which it supplies basic amenities like water and sewerage.
It is also authorize to build roads within Census Town limits and impose taxes on properties coming under its jurisdiction.
MIDC has developed Dharni mini Industrial area by providing the best infrastructure to attract local entrepreneurs and industrialists.
Land Rates Industrial Plots per square metre : 65 Commercial Plots per square metre : 90 The News: The rich forests of Melghat are home to an impoverished people[3] Melghat hit the headlines in 1997 for the death of 500 adivasi children due to malnutrition.
Melghat is a vast forested tract spread over two tehsils of Amravati district, Chikhaldara and Dharni.
Studies have shown that one of the reasons for the rising child deaths among the Korkus of Melghat is that they are denied access to traditional foods like wild flowers, tubers, fruits, crabs and fish from the rich forest.
Dharni is facing challenges from the government's new policy of making dams which poses a great threat to almost 2,000 inhabitants living in surrounding villages.