Hazaribagh district is spread over a part of the Chota Nagpur Plateau.

In the north and the north-west the lower plateau forms a fairly level tableland till the ghats, when the height drops to about 700 ft (213 m) and slopes down gradually.

Jharkhand was a “laboratory” for Naxalites to experiment with their ideas of establishing a parallel government.

The movement was not restricted to armed operations but included kangaroo courts called Jan Adalats, elected village bodies and people's police.

[6] Jharkhand, with a dense forest cover over a large part of the state, offers a favourable terrain for the Naxalites to build their bases and operate.

[8] However, in the same year, when Jharkhand police identified 13 focus areas for combating Maoist extremism, Hazaribagh district was not one of them.

[13] As of 2011, Barkagaon CD Block had 23 gram panchayats,[14] 82 inhabited villages[15] and 1 census town (Urimari).

[18] According to the 2011 Census of India, Barkagaon CD block had a total population of 136,839, of which 131,831 were rural and 4,948 were urban.

The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 19.44%.

It includes factory, mining, plantation, transport and office workers, those engaged in business and commerce, teachers, entertainment artistes and so on.

Other species are: bamboo, khair, sali, semal, mahua, tamarind, mango, black-berry (jamun), peepal, karnaj, jack-fruit, margosa (neem), kusum, palas, kend, asan, piar and bhelwa.

Irrigation facilities in this hilly area are inadequate and generally farmers depend on rain for their cultivation.

Other important crops grown are: bazra, maize, pulses (mainly arhar and gram) and oilseeds.

Limited quantities of cash crops, such as sugar cane, are grown.

[29] With large coal deposits in the Barkagaon and Charhi areas of North Karanpura Coalfield coming up, coal mining is becoming a major employment provider in Hazaribagh district.

[31] Central Coalfields Limited has plans for a large number of collieries covering villages Chepa Khurd, Chepa Kalyan, Jugra, Langatu, Pakri Barwadih, Uperi Darhi, Lokura, Chandaul, Ambajit, Nayatanr, Simradih, Moitra, Badam, Babupara, Gondalpura, Gali, Balodar, Napo Kalyan, Napo Khurd, Isko, Larunga, Bandu and others.

[33] NTPC is constructing the 3 X 660 MW North Karanpura Thermal Power Station at Tandwa in Chatra district and coal for the plant would go from adjacent Barkagaon CD block and Keredari CD block.

The fund, created by the Government of India, is designed to redress regional imbalances in development.