The earlier census town was combined with other urban units to form Dhanbad Municipal Corporation in 2006.

[3] Famous anchor, photographer and Founder of Techno world, Shivam Banerjee belongs from Bhowrah.

Anurag Kashyap, Editor in Chief of Prabhat khabar also belongs from here.. Bhowrah is surrounded by many coalmines The region shown in the map is a part of the undulating uplands bustling with coalmines.

The western part of the region shown in the map is covered by Dhanbad (community development block).

57% of the population of Dhanbad CD block reside in rural areas and 43% reside in urban areas, The east-central part of the region shown in the map is covered by Baliapur (community development block).

It caters to the needs of employees and their families, as well as outsiders as part of BCCL's corporate social responsibility programme.