| Voice of Lohardaga :
Ashok Raj

We lack skill based education which will equip the youths to go
into this competitive world and earn their living.
Women trafficking and migration are the main challenges faced by
us. Women still succumb to violence against them. Women lack property
rights. Government does have resources with them, proper utilization
and motivation is necessary.
Majority of people are poor
Lohardaga District
Area, Population & Sex Ratio
Analysis Geographical Area : 1491.0 Km2
Population in Lohardga (Census 2011)
Total Population
Total : 461738
Male : 232575
Female : 229163
Disabled population
Total disabled population : 5026
In seeing : 1192
In speech : 459
In hearing : 413
In movement : 2227
Mental : 735
Rank ( VoiceOfBharat.org Analysis
)
Backwardness : 14
Sex Ratio Rank : 442
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : D
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 540 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 470 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
District affected by Left Wing Extremism

Brief About Lohardaga District
With a view to focus on the developmental programmes primarily to
fill gaps, for backward areas which would help reduce imbalances,
speed up development and help the backward areas to overcome poverty,
besides facilitating the States to move up the ladder of reforms,
a new initiative in the form of the ‘Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana’
(RSVY) is being operationalised in the Tenth Plan. The District
Plans of Lohardaga district, for the year 2002-03 were approved
in IInd meeting of the empowered committee on the Rastriya Sam Vikas
Yojana held on 27/2/03 under the chairmanship of secretary Planning
Commission, Govt. Of India.
Overview
Lohardaga district (established after separation
from Ranchi in the year 1983) in Jharkhand is situated between 84040'
- 84050' east longitude and 23030' - 23040’ north latitude. The
geographical area of the district is 1491 square kilometers. There
are 5 development blocks (viz. Lohardaga, Kuru, Bhandra, Senha &
Kisko) & 354 revenue villages. Total number of household are 50,374
out of which 91% are in the rural areas (1991 census). In 2001,
Lohardaga had a total population of 3.64 lakh (population density
of 244 per square kilometer), growing 26.14% since 1991, which is
higher than the population growth rate of Jharkhand at 23.14%. Sex
ratio in Lohardaga improved from 971 to 976 over these years and
literacy improved from 41% to 54%. Female literacy grew from 26%
to 40%. The net sown area is only 55% of the total area of the district.
Two blocks i.e. Kisko & Senha have large area under dense forest
cover. The forest cover is around 32-35% of the total area of the
district. The average land holding per household is 1.65 Ha. The
per capita agriculture land is around 0.28 Ha. Net irrigated area
is 13.4% of net sown area (0.8% by canals, 7% by wells, 2% by tanks
& 3.6% by lift irrigation & others). Most of the villages except
the hilly pockets of the district are connected with the roads.
Still some of the hamlets have no linking roads. Electricity is
supplied from Patratu Thermal Power Station that is in the Hazaribagh
district. Out of 354 villages only 25 have rural electrification.
Water supply system is not available in rural area. The villagers
get their drinking water from tube wells and dug wells. There are
318 primary schools, 68 middle schools, 20 High schools, 2 higher
secondary schools and one college in the district. In this district,
there is a district hospital, one referral hospital, five primary
health sub-centre, ten additional primary health centre, seventy
three health sub-centre. The inhabitants of this district mainly
depend on agriculture, forest produce and seasonal migration to
different parts of the country. 80% of the population depends upon
agriculture. The main crop of this area is paddy. In the small irrigated
area wheat is grown to meet the annual food sufficiency. Also this
district is linked with larger vegetable markets like Jamshedpur,
Rourkela and Calcutta. There is a cold storage in the district.
But profitable vegetable cultivation is being limited to roadside
non- tribal. Generally, villagers of the district keep plough animals.
Also they keep goats and poultry birds as buffer. Although there
is a dairy chilling plant in the district head quarter, dairy is
practised by very few people mainly non-tribal.
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