Chakulia block is a CD block that forms an administrative division in the Ghatshila subdivision of East Singhbhum district, in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

“The district forms a part of the Chota Nagpur Plateau and is a hilly upland tract”.

The Seraikela Dhalbhumgarh upland and the Dalma range are natural divisions of the district.

[8] According to the 2011 Census of India, Chakulia CD block had a total population of 108,810, all of which were rural.

The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 24.39%.

Languages of Chakulia CD block (2011)[11] According to the Population by Mother Tongue 2011 data, in the Chakulia subdistrict, Bengali was the mother-tongue of 69,676 persons forming 55.69% of the population, followed by (number of persons and percentage of population in brackets) Santali (45,431/ 36.31%), Mundari (4,016/ 3.21%), Hindi (2,566/ 2.05%), Urdu (2,087/1.65), Odia (1,011/0.81), and persons with other languages as mother-tongue (331/ 0.26%).

[11] Note: An attempt has been made to include all language groups each with at least 500 persons as their mother-tongue and only those groups with less than 500 persons as their mother-tongue are included in the “other languages” category.

Comparatively smaller language groups with 200+ persons as their mother-tongue are mentioned in the text.

“MPI is calculated using 12 segments - nutrition, child and adolescent mortality, antenatal care, years of schooling, school attendance, cooking fuel, sanitation, drinking water, electricity, housing, assets and bank account, as compared to the previous approach of just considering the poverty line”.

[14][15] The silver lining in this scenario is that within Jharkhand, the richest districts are East Singhbhum, Dhanbad, Bokaro, and Ranchi.

However, CD blocks still largely dependent on agriculture have remained traditional.