Bagru is a village in the

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CD block in the Lohardaga Sadar subdivision of the

Lohardaga district Lohardaga district is one of the twenty-four districts of the Indian state of Jharkhand. The district is named after the town of Lohardaga, the administrative headquarters of the district. The district was created from a portion of Ranchi distr ...

in the

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Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ; ) is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It has an area of . It ...

Geography

Location

Bagru is located at

Area overview

The map alongside shows an undulating plateau area with the hilly tract in the west and north-west. Three Bauxite mining centres are marked. It is an overwhelmingly rural district with 87.6% of the population living in the rural areas. Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the district. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Civic administration

Police station

There is a police station at Bagru.

Demographics

According to the

2011 Census of India The 2011 Census of India or the 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. The House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved the collection of information about all buildings. Information ...

, Bagru had a total population of 2,536, of which 1,262 (50%) were males and 1,274 (50%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 420. The total number of literate persons in Bagru was 2,008 (62.52% of the population over 6 years). (*For language details see Kisko block#Language and religion)

Bauxite mines

India’s first alumina refinery was commissioned at Chota Muri, 65 km from

Ranchi Ranchi (, ) is the capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement, which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar, northern Odisha, western West Bengal and the eastern area ...

, by the erstwhile Indian Aluminium Company in 1948. It was taken over by the

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of the

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in 2005. Bauxite was first mined in India in 1906 in Madhya Pradesh. It was after the Second World War that the demand for aluminium went up. Lohardaga is known for producing world class bauxite. Hindalco Industries Ltd has 7 mining leases out of 9 active mines in Lohardaga district which supplies bauxite to Hindalco’s aluminium plants at Muri and

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. A ropeway connecting Bagru mines and Lohardaga has been a popular tourist attraction. Bauxite mining on the

Chota Nagpur Plateau The Chota Nagpur Plateau is a plateau in eastern India, which covers much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar. The Indo-Gangetic plain lies to the north and east of the plateau, and the bas ...

is restricted mainly to Lohardaga and Gumla districts. Bagru Hill mine is operated as a mechanised

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. The overburden is worked in benches in stages. The Bagru Hill Bauxite ore is blended with Bauxite from Bhusar mine. In Gumla district Jalim Senai,

Gurdari Gurdari is a village/ Bauxite mining centre in the Bishunpur CD block in the Gumla subdivision of the Gumla district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Gurdari is located at Area overview The map ...

and

Serangdag Serangdag is a village/ Bauxite mining centre in the Ghaghra CD block in the Gumla subdivision of the Gumla district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Serangdag is located at Area overview The ma ...

mines of Hindalco are operated manually/ semi-mechanised methods.

References

{{South Chotanagpur Division Villages in Lohardaga district Mining communities in Jharkhand