Imphal district is spread over an area of 1228 sq.km. lying in the central part of Manipur state.  It is bounded on the North, West and East (except lower small portion) by Senapati district, the lower small eastern portion by Ukhrul district, and on the South partly by Bishnupur district and partly by Thoubal district.  the district derives it name from its principal town Imphal, which is the capital of the state as well as the district head quarters.

The district has a total population of about 0.71 million (1991 census).approximately about 59% of the population live in rural areas, while 41% live in urban areas. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes contribute about 3.20% and 4.77% of the population respectively. The density of the population is 576 per Sq. Kms. The main languages spoken in the district are Manipuri and Kabui. The sex ration in the district is 970 females per 1000 males.

Imphal district has 5 Sub-divisions, 5 Tribal Development Blocks (Table-1). Imphal district has 13 towns and 333 villages (323 inhabited villages and 10uninhabited villages)

Table 1. Administrative Units in district

Amenities available in the villages are shown in Table-2.

Table 2. Villages having one or more amenities in Imphal district (1991 census)

The district of Imphal is situated in the valley of Manipur.  Nongpok, Ningthoiba and Koubru are the important and nearby hills. The district enjoys an adequate amount of rainfall.  The distribution of rainfall is higher in the hilly partion than in the plain area.  The soil is sandy particularly in the banks of rivers, and it is suitable for cultivation of vegetables like pea, chilli, potato etc.

Nambul, Sekmai, Imphal, Luwangli, Makiong, Iril and Thoubal are the main rivers, which pass through the district.  the portions of loktak lake, the biggest fresh water lake in North-Eastern India is also situated in the South-West portion of the district.  in a nearby villagee in Sekmai, a small stream known as Sendang khong is located, which is one of the sources of water supply in the village.

The district is comprised of five Sub-divisiions with equal number of Tribal Development Blocks. 

Imphal is connected by Air to Guwahati, Bagdogra, Patna and Delhi.  It is also connected to Calcutta and Silchar. Dimmapur on N.E. Railway, 212 kms. from Imphal is the rail head for Manipur. The district is connected with roads to all important towns of North-East India.

The main crop is paddy and nearly 95 percent of the total area under cultivation in the district is used for the production of this crop.  Other crops like wheat, sugarcane, tobacco and maize are also grown in various parts of the district.  Potato, arum and vegetables like pea, cabbage, mustard, onion, brinjal, chilli, etc., are also grown in small quantity but these are barely sufficient for house consumption. Livestock is the chief wealth next to agriculture to the predominant population of the district. There are a few veterinary hospitals and artificial insemination centres in the districts, which are making all efforts to improve the breed of livestock.

For the first time in February 1980 central poultry farm was established by the animal husbandry department with a view to rear improved breed/ strains of poultry birds and distribute these birds to the farmers of the district.  During 1981, an additional centre called poultry extension at Sekmai was setup.  Further the extension work was instituted to the development blocks.

At the district level one district fis0hery officer is responsible for fishery development of the district.  There is one breeding-cum-fish distribution centre in the district.

Since late seventies the district has made considerable stride in the field of horticulture.  The pineapple orchards are located predominantly at Waichong, where different varieties of pineapple are grown.  Orange and lemon cultivation is also not lagging behind.  In order to provide market for horticulture products, the state Govt. have started a fruit-processing unit. Manipur is the first to introduce Oak Tasar industry. Apart from this, over 100 scheduled Castes families in the valley practise mulberry rearing in traditional ways.

Imphal district is making rapid strides towards industrialization and has registered a good numbers of village industrial units in the recent period.  Manipur drug and Pharmaceutical Project-a joint sector project of the Government of Manipur and Government of India has been commissioned at Nilakuthi, in Imphal district since January 1993.  Large units include a steel re-rolling mill, plywood factory, bamboo chopping unit at Jiribam, spinning mill, cycle corporation, cement plant, shree flour mill, and vanaspati manufacturing plant in the joint sector.  Manipur Electronics Development corporation Limited manufactured, a large number of both colour and black and white T.V. sets.  The centre for electronic Development and Technology and Central Institute of plastic engineering and technology has been established by the Government of India at Imphal.

There are as many as 279 villages accounting for 86.38 percent of the total number of inhabited villages in the district where educational facility of one type or other is found.  Primary and middle schools are available in all the towns.  Manipur University is located at Imphal.  The first central Agricultural University is being setup at Imphal

Medical facility of one type or other is available in 82 villages of this district, which constitutes 25.39 percent of total number of villages.  The table given below furnishes information regarding various types of medical institutions available in the towns of this district table 3.

Table 3. Govt. and other medical institutions in Imphal district.

National Surveillance Programme for Communicable Diseases

The district Imphal in Manipur was included as a district under NSPCD in 1998-1999. The Nodal Officer for the programme was identified. The District RRT was identified but could not be trained due to administrative difficulties. The laboratory has been identified but will start functioning under NSPCD only after the training of the district RRT. The weekly and monthly report will also be forwarded to NICD as soon as the programme commences. The members of the District Rapid Response Team are shown in table 4.

Table 4. Imphal District RRT as on 11^th October, 2001