''See Gawan (disambiguation) for disambiguation'' Gawan is a village in the Gawan CD block in the

Khori Mahuwa subdivision Khori Mahuwa subdivision (also spelled Khuri Mahua) is an administrative subdivision of the Giridih district in the state of Jharkhand, India. Subdivision office is located at Domaidih village, which is 10 km from Dhanwar town and 3 km ...

of the

Giridih district Giridih district is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand state, India, and Giridih is the administrative headquarters of this district. As of 2011 it is the third most populous district of Jharkhand (out of 24), after Ranchi and Dhanbad ...

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

Gawan is located at .

Area overview

Giridih district is a part of 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 ...

, with rocky soil and extensive forests. Most of the rivers in the district flow from the west to east, except in the northern portion where the rivers flow north and north west. The

Pareshnath Hill Parasnath is a mountain peak in the Parasnath Range. It is located towards the eastern end of the Chota Nagpur Plateau in the Giridih district of the Indian state of Jharkhand, India. The hill is named after Lord Parshvanatha, the 23rd Tirthank ...

rises to a height of . The district has coal and mica mines. It is an overwhelmingly rural district with small pockets of urbanisation. 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.

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 ...

, Gawan had a total population of 7,458, of which 3,917 (53%) were males and 3,541 (47%) were females. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 1,442. The total number of literates in Gawan was 4,032 (67.02% of the population over 6 years).

Civic administration

Police station

Gawan police station has jurisdiction over the Gawan CD block. According to old British records, Gawan PS was there after Giridh subdivision was formed in 1870. Prior to that it had a zaminday thana.

CD block HQ

The headquarters of the Gawan CD block are located at Gawan village.

References

{{Giridih District Villages in Giridih district