Golmuri-cum-Jugsalai block

[1] Bagbera Colony, a constituent census town in the Golmuri-cum-Jugsalai CD block, is located at 22°45′50″N 86°11′25″E / 22.7638°N 86.1904°E / 22.7638; 86.1904.

“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.

[7] Golmuri and Jugsalai police stations serve Golmuri-cum-Jugsalai CD block.

[9] According to the 2011 Census of India, Golmuri-cum-Jugsalai CD block had a total population of 355,372, of which 102,623 were rural and 252,749 were urban.

[7][note 1] Census towns in Golmuri-cum-Jugsalai CD block are (2011 population figure in brackets): Tata Nagar Railway Colony (OG) (45,986), Bagbera (78,356), Haludbani (25,360), Sarjamda (23,788), Gadhra (18,801), Chhota Gobindpur (31,843), Ghorabandha (20,718), Purihasa (7,897).

Language in Golmuri-cum-Jugsalai CD block (including Jamshedpur and Mango)[12][note 2] According to the 2011 census, in the Golmuri-cum-Jugsalai subdistrict (including Jamshedpur and Mango) Hindi was the mother-tongue of 549,888 persons forming 43.63% of the population, followed by (number of persons and percentage of population in brackets) Bengali (255,488/20.27%), Urdu (147,685/ 11.72%), Odia (70,206/ 5.56%), Santali (61,646/ 4.89%), Ho (42,142/ 3.34%), Punjabi (41,208/ 3.27), Maithili (28,285/ 2.24%), Telugu (21,880/ 1.74), Mundari (13,514/ 1.07%), Kurukh (5,501/ 0.44%), Tamil (5,241/ 0.42%), Gujarati (5,052/ 0.40%), Nepali (2,696/ 0.21%), Malayalam (2,170/ 0.17), Marathi (2,127/ 0.17), English (838/ 0.07%), Munda (760/0.06%), Bhumij, (738/ 0.06%), Kharia 620/0.05%) and persons with other languages as mother-tongue (2,685/ 0.21%).

“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”.

[15][16] 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.