Nawadih is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Bermo subdivision of the Bokaro district, Jharkhand state, Bokaro district, a part of the Chota Nagpur Plateau, has undulating surface with the altitude varying between 200 and 282 m. Topographically, the entire area is divided into three parts – the Bokaro uplands in the west, the Bokaro-Chas uplands in the middle and Barakar basin in the east.

The main rivers are the Damodar, Garga, Parga, Konar and Gobei.

With the construction of the gigantic Bokaro Steel Plant in the nineteen sixties, it has become the focal point of this district.

[3]As of 2016[update], Bokaro was identified as one of the 13 focus areas by the state police to check Maoist activities.

[6] According to the 2011 Census of India, Nawadih CD block had a total population of 138,454, of which 133,848 were rural and 4,606 were urban.

[10] Bhandra, with a population of 4,606 in 2011, is a census town in Nawadih CD block.

[10] Large villages (with 4,000+ population) in Nawadih CD block are (2011 census figures in brackets): Penk (8,017), Goniatu (5,060), Kanjkiro (5,886), Palamu (5,379), Surhi (4,790), Saharia (4,606), Chiruddih (4,182), Nawadih (4,362) and Birni (4,829).

The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 25.65%.

[16][17][18] In the 2001 census, the three most populous mother tongues (spoken language/ medium of communication between a mother and her children) in Bokaro district were (with percentage of total population in brackets): Khortha (41.08%), Hindi (17.05%) and Santali (10.78%).

In the 2011 census, scheduled tribes constituted 12.40% of the total population of the district.

It includes factory, mining, plantation, transport and office workers, those engaged in business and commerce, teachers, entertainment artistes and so on.

The fund created by the Government of India is designed to redress regional imbalances in development.