 In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Dahod one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).It is one of the six districts in Gujarat currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).It is a mixed, deciduous forest, located at Gujarat's border with Madhya Pradesh, within the Khathiar-Gir dry deciduous forests' ecoregion.