Jamtara is a

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in the Dumri CD block in the

Dumri subdivision Dumri subdivision is an administrative subdivision of the Giridih district in the state of Jharkhand, India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seve ...

of the

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 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

Jamtara is located at .

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 th ...

, 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 Hill (also Sammet Shikhar, Marang Buru) is a mountain peak in the Parasnath hill range. It is located towards the eastern end of the Chota Nagpur Plateau in the Giridih district (Hazaribagh district in British India) of the Indian ...

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

According to the 2011 Census of India, Jamtara had a total population of 6,255, of which 3,249 (52%) were males and 3,006 (48%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 949. The total number of literate persons in Jamtara was 3,906 (73.61% of the population over 6 years).

Infrastructure

According to the ''District Census Handbook 2011, Giridih'', Jamtara covered an area of 4.54 km². Among the civic amenities, it had 48 km roads with open drains, the protected water supply involved uncovered well, hand pump. It had 879 domestic electric connections, 15 road light points. Among the educational facilities it had 6 primary schools, 3 middle schools, 2 secondary schools, 2 senior secondary schools, 1 general degree college. It had 9 non-formal education centres (Sarva Siksha Abhiyan). Among the social, recreational and cultural facilities it had 1 stadium, 1 cinema theatre, 1 auditorium/ community hall, 1 public library, reading room. Two important commodities it produced were bamboo baskets, muri. It had the branch offices of 1 nationalised bank, 1 cooperative bank.

References

{{Giridih District Cities and towns in Giridih district