Hesla is a village in

Bagodar Bagodar is a village in the Bagodar CD block in the Bagodar-Saria subdivision of the Giridih district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Bagodar is located at . Area overview Giridih district is a part of the Chota Nagpur ...

CD Block in

Bagodar-Saria subdivision Bagodar-Saria subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Giridih district in the state of Jharkhand, India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, ...

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

Hesla is located at . It has an average elevation of 365 metres (1197 feet).

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

As per

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 ...

Hesla had a population of 5,965. There were 3,062 males and 2,903 females.

Scheduled Castes The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India. The terms are recognized in the Constitution of India and the groups are designa ...

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, Hesla had a population of 5,860. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Hesla has an average literacy rate of 78%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 83%, and female literacy is 73%. In Hesla, 12% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Literacy

census, the total number of literates in Hesla was 3,296 out of which 1,972 were males and 1,324 were females.

Economy

98% of the populations of Hesla and near villages are dependent on farming and that is their only source of income.

School

Hesla High School is located at one of the Gram panchayats (Hesla) in Bagodar block of

of Jharkhand state of India. This school was started at the time (1984) when education in rural areas was not accessible to all who wished to study. It started under a mango tree but now has a roof. There are around 500 students currently studying, where there are 9 teachers the school.

References

{{Giridih District Villages in Giridih district