Railway's Electric loco shed and Ordinance Factory also situated in katni.

[2] In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Katni one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).

[3] According to the 2011 census Katni District has a population of 1,292,042,[6] roughly equal to the nation of Estonia[7] or the US state of New Hampshire.

[6] The district has a population density of 261 inhabitants per square kilometre (680/sq mi).

[6] Katni has a sex ratio of 948 females for every 1000 males[6] and a literacy rate of 73.62%.

[9] Badera Chaturyug Dham Temple is a temple located in Badera Village of Katni district of Madhya Pradesh and is a very holy and popular religious place.