Chandwa (community development block)

the local educated youth have come forward and set up a few English medium primary schools.

Abhijeet Group is setting up a Coal Based Thermal Power Plant with total installed capacity of 1740 MW.

Several companies signed MoU with the state government, but none could start the work in the district prior to Abhijeet Group.

The main economy is agriculture and the local business activities that people of chandwa are engaged into.

Power plant project by Abhijeet group has already attained a substantial development and 270 MW of it is on the verge of commissioning.

The project situated in "Chakla", about 10 km away from chandwa on Chandwa-Chatra National Highway #99.Abhijit Group is scheduled to start power generation by 1st quarter 2013.

Chandwa is well connected to the nearby major towns of Jharkhand Chatra, Daltonganj, Lohardaga, Gumla and the state capital Ranchi by road.

Train services to Dhanbad, New Delhi, Patna, Ranchi, Varanasi, Rourkela, Jammu, Jaipur, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Tatanagar, Howrah, Lohardaga are available on a daily basis from Tori Junction station.