[2] Jhargram subdivision covers an area of 3,037.64 km2 and had a population of 1,136,548 in the 2011 census.

[3] Jhargram subdivision has 10 police stations, 8 community development blocks, 8 panchayat samitis, 79 gram panchayats, 2,996 mouzas, 2513 inhabited villages, 1 municipality and 1 census town.

Special and non-formal education centres include sishu siksha kendras, madhyamik siksha kendras, adult high schools, centres of Rabindra mukta vidyalaya, recognised Sanskrit tols, institutions for the blind and other handicapped persons, Anganwadi centres, reformatory schools etc.

[19] The table below (all data in numbers) presents a subdivision-wise overview of the medical facilities available and patients treated in the hospitals, health centres and sub-centres in 2014 in Paschim Medinipur district.

[20] Medical facilities in the Jhargram subdivision are as follows: Hospitals: (Name, location, beds) [21] Rural Hospitals: (Name, CD block, location, beds) [22] Block Primary Health Centres: (Name, CD block, location, beds)[23] Primary Health Centres : (CD block-wise)(CD block, PHC location, beds)[24] Lok Sabha (parliamentary) and Vidhan Sabha (state assembly) constituencies in Jhargram district were as follows from 2006:[25]