Bagru is a village in the

Kisko Kisko () is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Salo on 1 January 2009. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population of 1,869 (2004-12-31 ...

CD block in the Lohardaga Sadar subdivision of the

Lohardaga district Lohardaga district is one of the twenty-four districts of the Indian state of Jharkhand. The district is named after the town of Lohardaga, the administrative headquarters of the district. The district was created from a portion of Ranchi dis ...

in the

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

state State most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a ...

Jharkhand Jharkhand (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in East India, 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 ...

Geography

Location

Bagru is located at

Area overview

The map alongside shows an undulating plateau area with the hilly tract in the west and north-west. Three

Bauxite mining Bauxite () is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content. It is the world's main source of aluminium and gallium. Bauxite consists mostly of the aluminium minerals gibbsite (), boehmite (γ-AlO(OH)), and diaspore (α-AlO(OH) ...

centres are marked. It is an overwhelmingly rural district with 87.6% of the population living in the rural 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

Police station

There is a police station at Bagru.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Bagru had a total population of 2,536, of which 1,262 (50%) were males and 1,274 (50%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 420. The total number of literate persons in Bagru was 2,008 (62.52% of the population over 6 years). (*For language details see Kisko block#Language and religion)

Bauxite mines

India's first alumina refinery was commissioned at Chota Muri, 65 km from

Ranchi Ranchi (; ) is the capital city and also the largest district by population of the Indian state of Jharkhand. Ranchi was the centre of the Jharkhand movement, which called for a separate state for the tribal regions of South Bihar, northern ...

, by the erstwhile Indian Aluminium Company in 1948. It was taken over by the

Hindalco Industries Hindalco Industries Limited an Indian aluminium and copper manufacturing company, is a subsidiary of the Aditya Birla Group. Its headquarters are at Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The company is listed in the Forbes Global 2000 (2023) at 661st r ...

of the

Aditya Birla Group Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in Mumbai. The group's business interests include metals, cement, fashion and retail, financial services, renewables, fibre, textiles, chemicals, real estate, trading, ...

in 2005. Bauxite was first mined in India in 1906 in Madhya Pradesh. It was after the Second World War that the demand for aluminium went up. Lohardaga is known for producing world class bauxite. Hindalco Industries Ltd has 7 mining leases out of 9 active mines in Lohardaga district which supplies bauxite to Hindalco's aluminium plants at Muri and

Renukoot Renukoot is a town and a nagar panchayat in Sonbhadra district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is 68 km south from the district headquarters Robertsganj. Renukoot is well known for the Hindalco aluminium plant and Rihand Dam. It i ...

. A ropeway connecting Bagru mines and Lohardaga has been a popular tourist attraction. Bauxite mining on 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 th ...

is restricted mainly to Lohardaga and Gumla districts. Bagru Hill mine is operated as a mechanised

open cast mine Open-pit mining, also known as open-cast or open-cut mining and in larger contexts mega-mining, is a surface mining technique that extracts rock or minerals from the earth. Open-pit mines are used when deposits of commercially useful ore or ro ...

. The overburden is worked in benches in stages. The Bagru Hill Bauxite ore is blended with Bauxite from Bhusar mine. In Gumla district Jalim Senai,

Gurdari Gurdari is a village/ Bauxite mining centre in the Bishunpur CD block in the Gumla subdivision of the Gumla district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Gurdari is located at Area overview The ma ...

and

Serangdag Serangdag is a village/ Bauxite mining centre in the Ghaghra CD block in the Gumla subdivision of the Gumla district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Geography Location Serangdag is located at Area overview The m ...

mines of Hindalco are operated manually/ semi-mechanised methods.

References

{{South Chotanagpur Division Villages in Lohardaga district Mining communities in Jharkhand