| Voice of Chatra : Filman
Bakala
Chatra is a Naxal affected district. There are about four Naxal
groups in Chatra. Due to their activities government’s facilities
dont reach common people. This retards the human development. The
government funds are exhorted by the Naxalites to buy arms and ammunitions.
The youths are pressurized to join these groups. This hampers their
education. Children remain uneducated and they migrate to different
places to do odd jobs. Parents get their daughters married at a
young age, as women are also pressurized to join the Naxal group.
Chatra District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Geographical Area : 3706.0 Km2
Population in Chatra (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 1042304
Male : 234209
Female : 508095
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 13747
In seeing : 5636
In speech : 1103
In hearing : 753
In movement : 4323
Mental : 1932
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 70
Sex Ratio Rank : 386
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : D (HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 476 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 552 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
District affected by Left Wing Extremism
Brief About Chatra District
Chatra District forms North-Eastern parts of the
North Chotanagpur division of Jharkhand State. It is bounded on
the North by Gaya District, on the East by Hazaribagh district and
on the west by Palamu and Gaya District. The major portion of the
Chatra district is coveblack by forest (more than 60%) and has scatteblack
settlement patterns.
Chatra district was a subdivision of Hazaribagh
district and was created as districts vide notification
no. 128 dated 29-05-1991 Personnel and Administrative Reforms Dept.,
Govt. of Bihar. The district comprises of one subdivision,
ten development Blocks/Anchals, 125 Panchayats and 1479 Revenue
Villages. There is only
one municipality - that is at the district head quarters of Chatra.
There are 9 thanas
(Police Station) in Chatra District. Chatra is passing through a
very serious phase of extremists' violence by the banned naxal outfit
called the M.C.C. (Maoist Communist Centre). How ever in the recent
past the Chatra Police have been quiet successful in stemming the
black tide of the naxal wave. The Chatra Police has made a number
of important arrests of naxalite personnel as well as seized a number
of arms and ammunition along with lethal explosive materials and
devices. The success of the Chatra Police against the naxal outfits
has to a large extent led to the limiting of naxal violence.
A
full-fledged judgeship has started functioning from 16th of June
2001. Under District and Session Judge, assisted by Additional District
Judge, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Judicial Magistrates and Munsiff
Magistrate. The District also has a functioning District Consumer
Forum. The
forest portion comprises of 4 territorial divisions (North, South
Chatra, Koderma, Hazaribagh West) one afforestation
division and 2 state trading divisions. The forest
of Chatra is full of
variety of medicinal plants, Kendu leaves, Bamboo, Sal, Teak, other
timber species and a wide range of carnivorous & herbivorous
wild animals. The district has one wild life sanctuary also
known as the Lawalong Wild Life Sanctuary, which hosts even tigers.
The sanctuary was established vide Bihar Govt notification no. 49/
48/333 - F, dated 15/07/1978. 82 villages are located within the
sanctuary area of which 21 villages are in the core area and 61
villages are situated in the buffer zone. The area of the sanctuary
is 26, 886.23 hectares. In the sanctuary the principal animals that
are found are Tigers, Leopards, Bear, Neelgai, Sambhar, Peacock,
Wild Boar and Deer, together with variety of snakes and birds.
LOCATION
AND AREA
The district is situated in the extreme northwest part
of the state of Jharkhand. It is bounded on the north by Gaya (Bihar
State) district and Hazaribagh district and on the east by Hazaribagh
district, on the south by Palamu and Ranchi district and on the
west by Gaya (Bihar State) and Palamu district. This district has
come into being in the year 1991, as previously it was part of Hazaribagh
district. The district headquarters is located at Chatra
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