Chharwa is a village in the

Katkamsandi Katkamsandi is a village in the Katkamsandi CD block in the Hazaribagh Sadar subdivision of the Hazaribagh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Katkamsandi is located at . Area overview Hazaribagh district is a plat ...

CD block in the

Hazaribagh Sadar subdivision Hazaribagh Sadar subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Hazaribagh district in the North Chotanagpur division in the state of Jharkhand, India. History During the period of Muslim rule, the thickly forested plateau area was ruled by ...

of the

Hazaribagh district Hazaribagh district is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand state, India and the district headquarter located in Hazaribagh town. It is currently a part of the Red Corridor. Etymology The district is named after its headquarters, the tow ...

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

Chharwa is located at .

Chharwa Dam

Chharwa Dam, constructed in 1954, is the life line of the

Hazaribagh Hazaribagh is a city and a municipal corporation in Hazaribagh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It is the divisional headquarters of North Chotanagpur division. It is considered as a health resort and is also popular for Hazaribagh ...

town water supply system. Even with "mammoth" efforts to rejuvenate Chharwa and other water supply reservoirs in Jharkhand, in the parched-dry Hazaribagh summer it often reaches the dying stage, only to be revived by the onset of the monsoons. As per the Wetlands International Asian Waterbirds Census 2016, there were 1,462 water birds in Chharwa Dam. Chharwa Dam is home to various vulture species, including the largest and the smallest vultures, the

Himalayan griffon vulture The Himalayan vulture (''Gyps himalayensis'') or Himalayan griffon vulture is an Old World vulture native to the Himalayas and the adjoining Tibetan Plateau. It is one of the two largest Old World vultures and true raptors. It is listed as Near T ...

and the

Egyptian vulture The Egyptian vulture (''Neophron percnopterus''), also called the white scavenger vulture or pharaoh's chicken, is a small Old World vulture and the only member of the genus ''Neophron''. It is widely distributed from the Iberian Peninsula and ...

respectively. Critically Endangered species like the

Indian Vulture The Indian vulture (''Gyps indicus'') is an Old World vulture native to India, Pakistan and Nepal. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2002, as the population severely declined. Indian vultures died of kidney fa ...

and White Rumped Vulture are also found here.

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 ...

, Chharwa had a total population of 843, of which 449 (53%) were males and 394 (47%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 135. The total number of literate persons in Chharwa was 521 (73.59% of the population over 6 years).

Transport

The Hazaribagh-Katkamsandi Road passes over a part of/ near the Chharwa Dam. The Koderma-Hazaribagh-Barkakana-Ranchi line, running from Katkamsandi to Hazaribagh in this sector, passes in between the Chharwa Dam and Gonda DamGoogle maps

References

{{Hazaribagh city Villages in Hazaribagh district