Dinara is a CD Block in

Rohtas district Rohtas District is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state, India. It came into existence when Shahabad District was bifurcated into Bhojpur & Rohtas in 1972. Administrative headquarter of the district is Sasaram. Rohtas district has th ...

Bihar Bihar (; ) is a state in eastern India. It is the 2nd largest state by population in 2019, 12th largest by area of , and 14th largest by GDP in 2021. Bihar borders Uttar Pradesh to its west, Nepal to the north, the northern part of West Be ...

, India. It is situated on the National Highway 319 (old NH-30). The birthplace of the famous poet Dariya Saheb is just 5 km from Dinara.

Geography

The whole Dinara block is located on the

Sasaram Sasaram ()sometimes also spelled as Sahasram, is an ancient historical city and a municipal corporation region in the Rohtas district of the Bihar state in eastern India, with a history that goes to thousands of years. During the prehistoric ag ...

Plain. The block covers an area of 28,732.00

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s, with the lands belonging to the village of Dinara itself covering 588 hectares. The block has 2 hectares of

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Land use

Of the block's 28,732.00 hectares, 91.33% is classified as cultivable land. Of this, 99.45% is

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, which is the highest proportion among blocks in Rohtas district. Of the 588 hectares in Dinara village, 508 are under cultivation, all of which are irrigated.

Demographics

As of 2011, the population of Dinara was 11,733, in 1,883 households, while the overall block population was 225,468, in 33,227 households. Dinara is an entirely rural sub-district, with no major urban centres. The

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of Dinara sub-district in 2011 was 926, which was above the Rohtas district average of 918. The sex ratio was higher among the 0-6 age group, where it was 940, again above the Rohtas district average of 931. Members of

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made up 18.87% of the block population, and members of

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made up 0.38%. The

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of the block was 71.43%, below the overall Rohtas district rate of 73.37%. Literacy was higher in men than in women, with 81.52% of men but only 60.49% of women able to read and write. The corresponding 21.03% gender literacy gap was slightly higher than the Rohtas average of 19.91%.

Employment

A majority of Dinara block's workforce was employed in

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in 2011, with 31.60% being cultivators who owned or leased their own land and another 47.51% being agricultural laborers who worked someone else's land for wages. A further 3.22% were household industry workers, and the remaining 16.20% were other workers.

Amenities

The village of Dinara does not have

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, with

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instead provided by

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. 9 villages have tap water. No villages have

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s. 119 of the block's 181 inhabited villages, Dinara among them, have

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, or 65.75%, the lowest proportion in Rohtas. 44 villages have

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service.

Transport

There is

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but no

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in Dinara. Dinara has permanent

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roads, which are connected to both

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and

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. On the block level, there are 20 villages with pucca roads, or 11.05%, the lowest proportion in Rohtas. 44 villages have transport communications, defined as bus, rail, or navigable waterways; 16 of these have bus service, and no villages have rail access.

Villages

There are 229 villages in Dinara block, including the village of Dinara itself. Of these, 181 are inhabited and 48 are uninhabited.

References

{{Rohtas district Villages in Rohtas district