Bokaro district is one of the most industrialized zones in India. It is one of the twenty-four districts of the

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 . I ...

state,

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. It was established in 1991 by carving out one subdivision consisting of two blocks from Dhanbad District and six blocks from

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 D ...

Economy

Bokaro is one of the most industrial district in Jharkhand. It is home to the Asia’s largest steel plant. It is the hub of economic activity in East India. It is home to many companies such as

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Vedanta Limited Vedanta Limited is an Indian multinational mining company headquartered in Mumbai, India, with its main operations in iron ore, gold and aluminium mines in Goa, Karnataka, Rajasthan and Odisha. History Sterlite Industries Vedanta (then called ...

, Dalmia Cement Bharat Limited, Jaypee Cement (Bokaro Jaypee Cement Limited),

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and Orica. It has many thermal power station such as Chandrapura DVC Thermal Power Station, Tenughat DVC Thermal Power Station and so many. It is also home to the first explosive factory in India which is located in Gomia. Sudha Dairy has a manufacturing unit here in

Bokaro Steel City Bokaro, officially known as Bokaro Steel City () is a planned city in Jharkhand, India. It is fourth largest and most populous city in the state. It is one of the planned cities of India. Bokaro is the administrative headquarters of Bokaro distri ...

’s Sector 12.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, Bokaro district has a

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of 2,062,330, This gives it a ranking of 222nd in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 15.99%. Bokaro has a

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of 916

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for every 1000 males, and a

literacy rate Literacy in its broadest sense describes "particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing" with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in written form in some specific context of use. In other words, huma ...

of 73.48%. Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 14.5% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 12.4% of total population. 79.35% of the population is Hindu, 11.71% Muslim, and 7.78% Others.

Languages

At the time of the

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, 46.23% of the population in the district spoke Khortha, 13.61%

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 ...

, 11.39% Santali, 10.67%

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the w ...

, 5.71%

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri (;Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries
, Oxford U ...

, 4.09%

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Magahi The Magahi language (), also known as Magadhi (), is a language spoken in Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal states of eastern India, and in the Terai of Nepal. Magadhi Prakrit was the ancestor of Magahi, from which the latter's name deriv ...

and 1.14% Maithili as their first language.

Politics

Notable people

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, founder of Screamer (screamer.in) and COVIDEXCHANGE. * Sambit Patra, National spoke person of Bharatiya Janata Party.

Geography

References

External links

Bokaro District website
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