Ghatshila block is a community development (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.

[11] According to the 2011 Census of India, Ghatshila CD block had a total population of 129,905, of which 89,281 were rural and 40,624 were urban.

The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 19.93%.

Languages in Ghatshila CD block (2011) According to the Population by Mother Tongue 2011 data, in the Ghatshila subdistrict, Bengali was the mother-tongue of 70,318 persons forming 54.13% of the population, followed by (number of persons and percentage of population in brackets) Santali (36,374/ 28.00%), Hindi (11,188/ 8.61%), Urdu (3,161/ 2.43%), Mundari (2,519/ 1.94%), Odia (2,412/ 1.86%), Ho (1,617/ 1.24%), Punjabi (927/ 0.71%), and persons with other languages as mother-tongue (1,399/ 1.08%).

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”.

[17][18] 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.

It has copper mines at Surda, Siddheswari Chapri, Kendadih, Patharbera and Rakha and processing plants such as conentrator and smelter at Moubhander, about a mile Ghatshila.

Owing to a sharp decline in the price of copper in the international market in 1989, mining operations were stopped.

However, as of 2021, with price rise in the international market, operations are being revived in the mines.