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Tati Jhariya is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division 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 ...
.


Overview

Hazaribagh district is spread over 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 ...
. The central plateau, averaging a height of , occupies the central part of the district. On all sides, except on the western side, it is surrounded by the lower plateau, averaging a height of , the surface being undulating. In the north and the north-west the lower plateau forms a fairly level tableland till the
ghat Ghat, a term used in the Indian subcontinent, depending on the context could refer either to a range of stepped hills with valleys (ghati in Hindi), such as the Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats; or the series of steps leading down to a body of ...
s, when the height drops to about and slopes down gradually. The Damodar and the
Barakar Barakar is a neighbourhood in Asansol, Paschim Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is governed by the Asansol Municipal Corporation It is situated at the border of the states of Jharkhand and West Bengal. The Grand Trunk R ...
form the two main watersheds in the district. DVC has constructed the
Konar Dam Konar dam is the second of the four multi-purpose dams included in the first phase of the Damodar Valley Corporation. It was constructed across the Konar River, a tributary of the Damodar River in Hazaribagh district in the Indian state of Jharkha ...
across the
Konar River The Konar River is a tributary of Damodar River in Hazaribagh and Bokaro districts of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Course The Konar originates near Sultana village on the Hazaribagh-Chatra Road. Thereafter, the Konar with its tributary Siwani ...
. It is a forested district with cultivation as the main occupation of the people. Coal is the main mineral found in this district. China clay is also found in this district. Inaugurating the
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY, translation: Prime Minister's Lighting Scheme) was launched by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi on 1 May 2016 to distribute 50 million LPG connections to women of Below Poverty Line (BPL) families. A bu ...
in 2016,
Raghubar Das Raghubar Das (born 3 May 1955) is an Indian politician who served as the sixth Chief Minister of Jharkhand. He was sworn in as the 6th chief minister of Jharkhand on 28 December 2014. He belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party and has twice served as ...
, Chief Minister of Jharkhand, had indicated that there were 23
lakh A lakh (; abbreviated L; sometimes written lac) is a unit in the Indian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100,000; scientific notation: 105). In the Indian 2,2,3 convention of digit grouping, it is written as 1,00,000. For ex ...
BPL families in Jharkhand. There was a plan to bring the BPL proportion in the total population down to 35%.


Maoist activities

Right from its inception in 2000. Jharkhand was a “laboratory” for Naxalites to experiment with their ideas of establishing a parallel government. As of 2005, 16 of the 22 districts in the state, including Hazaribagh district, was transformed into a “guerrilla zone”. The movement was not restricted to armed operations but included
kangaroo court A kangaroo court is a court that ignores recognized standards of law or justice, carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides, and is typically convened ad hoc. A kangaroo court may ignore due process and come ...
s called , elected village bodies and people's police. Jharkhand, with a dense forest cover over a large part of the state, offers a favourable terrain for the Naxalites to build their bases and operate. Annual fatalities in Jharkhand were 117 in 2003 and 150 in 2004. In 2013 Jharkhand was considered one of the two states in the country most affected by
Left wing extremism Far-left politics, also known as the radical left or the extreme left, are politics further to the left on the left–right political spectrum than the standard political left. The term does not have a single definition. Some scholars consider ...
and Jharkhand police set up an exclusive cell to deal with Maoist activities. However, in the same year, when Jharkhand police identified 13 focus areas for combating Maoist extremism, Hazaribagh district was not one of them.


Geography

Tati Jharia is located at . Tati Jhariya CD block is bounded by
Barkatha Barakatha (also spelled Barahkatha) is a village in the Barkatha CD block in the Barhi subdivision of the Hazaribagh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Barkatha is located at . Surajkund hot spring is from Barkath ...
CD block on the north,
Bishnugarh Bishnugarh (also called Bishungarh) is a census town in the Bishnugarh CD block in the Hazaribagh Sadar subdivision of the Hazaribagh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Bishnugarh is located at . Konar Dam is 10& ...
CD block on the east,
Gomia Gomia (also spelled as Gumia) is a census town in the Gomia CD block in the Bermo subdivision of the Bokaro district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The modern name is a transformation of ''Gumia'' over the years. Though, today, it is still l ...
CD block, in Bokaro district, Mandu CD block in Ramgarh district and
Churchu Churchu is a village in the Churchu CD block in the Hazaribagh Sadar subdivision of the Hazaribagh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Churchu is located at . Area overview Hazaribagh district is a plateau area and ...
CD blocks on the south, and
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CD block on the west. Tati Jhariya CD block has an area of 199.04 km2. As of 2011, Tati Jhariya CD block had 8
gram panchayat Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...
s, 53 inhabited villages and no
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s.
Tati Jhariya Tati Jhariya is a panchayat village in the Tati Jhariya CD block in the Hazaribagh Sadar subdivision of the Hazaribagh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Tati Jhariya is located at . Census villages under Tati Jha ...
police station serves this CD block, Headquarters of this CD block is at Tati Jhariya. It is located 29 km east of
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 ...
, the district headquarters.


Demographics


Population

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 ...
, Tati Jhariya CD block had a total population of 48,549, all of which were rural. There were 24,061 (50%) males and 24,488 (50%) females. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 8,373.
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 ...
numbered 6,299 (17.76%) and
Scheduled Tribes 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 ...
numbered 2,988 (12.97%). There was only one large village (with 4,000+ population) in Tati Jhariya CD block are (2011 census figures in brackets): Jharpo (5,790). Other villages in Tati Jhariya CD block include (2011 census figures in brackets): Tati (286) and Jharia (2,001).


Literacy

census, the total number of literate persons in Tati Jhariya CD block was 24,379 (60.68% of the population over 6 years) out of which males numbered 14,109 (71.46% of the male population over 6 years) and females numbered 10,270 (50.26% of the female population over 6 years). The
gender disparity Sex differences in humans have been studied in a variety of fields. Sex determination occurs by the presence or absence of a Y in the 23rd pair of chromosomes in the human genome. Phenotypic sex refers to an individual's sex as determined by the ...
(the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 21.20%. census, literacy in Hazaribagh district was 70.48%. Literacy in Jharkhand was 67.63% in 2011. Literacy in India in 2011 was 74.04%. See also –
List of Jharkhand districts ranked by literacy rate This is a list of districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand ranked by literacy rate as per provisional data of 2011 census. With a literacy rate of 67.63%, below the national average of 74.04%, as per the 2011 Census, Jharkhand ranks 32nd amongst ...


Language and religion

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
is the official language in Jharkhand and
Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''
Jharkhand legislature had passed a bill according the status of a second official language to several languages in 2011 but the same was turned down by the Governor. The three most populous mother-tongues (spoken language which is medium of conversation with the mother of children), as per data available from 2001 census in a Note on mother-tongue of earlier census, published in District Census Handbook Hazaribag, 2011, were: Khortha,
Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
and
Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
''
Numerically, five important scheduled tribes in the district were: Santali, Oraon, Munda, Karmali and Bedia. According to the ''District Census Handbook, Hazaribagh, 2011 census,''
Hindus Hindus (; ) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pages 35–37 Historically, the term has also been used as a geographical, cultural, and later religious identifier for ...
numbered 1,397,227 and formed 80.56% of the population of Hazaribagh district, followed by
Muslims Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abraha ...
281,287 (16.21%),
Christians Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...
17,137 (0.99%), religion not stated 1,671 (0.10%), other religions 37,213 (2.15%).


Rural poverty

40-50% of the population of Hazaribagh district were in the BPL category in 2004–2005, being in the same category as Godda, Giridih and Koderma districts. Rural poverty in Jharkhand declined from 66% in 1993–94 to 46% in 2004–05. In 2011, it has come down to 39.1%.


Economy


Livelihood

In Tati Jhariya CD block in 2011, amongst the class of total workers, cultivators numbered 8,874 and formed 44.60%, agricultural labourers numbered 7,084 and formed 35.60%, household industry workers numbered 686 and formed 3.45% and other workers numbered 3,253 and formed 16.35%. Total workers numbered 19,897 and formed 40.98% of the total population, and non-workers numbered 28,652 and formed 59.02% of the population. Note: In the census records, a person is considered a cultivator, if the person is engaged in cultivation/ supervision of land owned. When a person who works on another person's land for wages in cash or kind or share, is regarded as an agricultural labourer. Household industry is defined as an industry conducted by one or more members of the family within the household or village, and one that does not qualify for registration as a factory under the Factories Act. Other workers are persons engaged in some economic activity other than cultivators, agricultural labourers and household workers. It includes factory, mining, plantation, transport and office workers, those engaged in business and commerce, teachers, entertainment artistes and so on.


Infrastructure

There are 53 inhabited villages in Tati Jhariya CD block. In 2011, 45 villages had power supply. 2 villages had tap water (treated/ untreated), 8 villages had well water (covered/ uncovered), 52 villages had hand pumps, and 1 village had no drinking water facility. 7 villages had post offices, 2 villages had sub post offices, 4 villages had telephones (land lines) and 47 villages had mobile phone coverage. 52 villages had pucca (hard top) village roads, 9 villages had bus service (public/ private), 5 villages had autos/ modified autos, and 22 villages had tractors. 4 villages had bank branches, 3 villages had agricultural credit societies, no village had cinema/ video hall, no village had public library and public reading room. 22 villages had
public distribution system The Public Distribution System (PDS) is an Indian food security system that was established by the Government of India under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution to distribute food and non-food items to India's poor a ...
, 4 villages had weekly haat (market) and 26 villages had
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polling stations.


Forestry and agriculture

The main occupation of the people of Hazaribagh district is cultivation. While forests occupy around 45% of the total area, the cultivable area forms about 39% of the total area. The forests are uniformly spread across the district. Sal is the predominant species in the jungles. Other species are: bamboo, khair, sali, semal, mahua, tamarind, mango, black-berry (jamun), peepal, karnaj, jack-fruit, .
Hazaribag Wildlife Sanctuary Hazaribagh Wildlife Sanctuary (earlier called Hazaribagh National Park) is a wildlife sanctuary in Jharkhand, India, about north of Ranchi. It was established in 1955. Nestling in low hilly terrain, at an average altitude of , it has an area ...
is located around 19 km north of
Hazaribag 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 ...
. Irrigation facilities in this hilly area are inadequate and generally farmers depend on rain for their cultivation. The land situated along the river banks, or low land, is fertile but the uplands are generally barren. May to October is Kharif season, followed by Rabi season. Rice is the main crop of the district. Other important crops grown are: bazra, maize, pulses (mainly arhar and gram) and oilseeds. Limited quantities of cash crops, such as sugar cane, are grown.


Backward Regions Grant Fund

Hazaribagh district is listed as a backward region and receives financial support from the
Backward Regions Grant Fund Backward or Backwards is a relative direction. Backwards or Sdrawkcab (the word "backwards" with its letters reversed) may also refer to: * "Backwards" (''Red Dwarf''), episode of sci-fi TV sitcom ''Red Dwarf'' ** ''Backwards'' (novel), a nov ...
. The fund, created by the Government of India, is designed to redress regional imbalances in development. As of 2012, 272 districts across the country were listed under this scheme. The list includes 21 districts of Jharkhand.


Transport

The Hazaribagh-Hazaribagh Road railway station road passes through Tati Jhariya CD block.


Education

In 2011, amongst the 53 inhabited villages in Tati Jhariya CD block, 6 villages had no primary school, 38 villages had one primary school and 9 villages had more than one primary school. 25 villages had at least one primary school and one middle school. 5 villages had at least one middle school and one secondary school.


Healthcare

In 2011, amongst the 53 inhabited villages in Tati Jhariya CD block, 4 villages had primary health sub-centres, 2 villages had maternity and child welfare centres, 1 village had a medicine shop and 47 villages had no medical facilities.


References

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