Gurbandha (also written as Gurbanda) is a village in the

Gurbandha Gurbandha (also written as Gurbanda) is a village in the Gurbandha CD block in the Ghatshila subdivision of the Purbi Singhum district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Gurbandha is located at . Area overview The area ...

CD block in the

Ghatshila subdivision Ghatshila subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the East Singhbhum district in the Kolhan division in the state of Jharkhand, India. Administration The district consists of two subdivisions - (1) Dhalbhum subdivision with Patamda, Bor ...

of the Purbi Singhum district 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

Gurbandha is located at .

Area overview

The area shown in the map “forms 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 ...

and is a hilly upland tract”. The main rivers draining the district are the Subarnarekha and the

Kharkai Kharkai is an administrative unit, known as Union council, of Malakand District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Its population is near 50000 District Malakand has 2 Tehsils i.e. Swat Ranizai and Sam Ranizai. Each Tehsil comprises ...

. The area lying between Jamshedpur and Ghatshila is the main industrial mining zone. The rest of the district is primarily agricultural. In the district, as of 2011, 56.9% of the population lives in the rural areas and a high 43.1% lives in the urban 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

There is a police station at Gurabanda The headquarters of Gurabandha CD block is located at Gurabandha village.

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 ...

, Gurbandha had a total population of 1,312, of which 658 (50%) were males and 654 (50%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 158. The total number of literate persons in Gurbandha was 771 (66.81% of the population over 6 years). (*For language details see Gurbandha block#Language and religion)

Education

Government High School Gurabanda is a Hindi-medium coeducational institution established in 1973. It has facilities for teaching from class I to class X. The school has a library with 621 books.

References

Villages in East Singhbhum district {{Jharkhand-geo-stub