“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.

[6]Gurbanda police station serves Gurbhandha CD block.

[8] According to the 2011 Census of India, Gurbandha CD block had a total population of 43,001, all of which were rural.

The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 21.73%.

Languages in Gurbandha CD block (2011)[11] According to the Population by Mother Tongue 2011 data, in the Gurbandha subdistrict, Santali was the mother-tongue of 19,802 persons forming 46.05% of the population, followed by (number of persons and percentage of population in brackets) Bengali (15,362/ 35.72%), Mundari (3,951/ 9.19%), Odia (2,061/4.79), Kharia (629/ 1.46), Ho (601/1.40), Hindi (587/ 1.37%), and persons with other languages as mother-tongue (8/ 0.02%).

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.