“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.

[9] According to the 2011 Census of India, Patamda CD block had a total population of 82,876, all of which were rural.

The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 28.83%.

Languages of Patamda CD block (2011)[12] According to the Population by Mother Tongue 2011 data, in the Patamda subdistrict, Bengali was the mother-tongue of 66,106 persons forming 79.76% of the population, followed by (number of persons and percentage of population in brackets) Santali (15,845/19.12%), Hindi (513 / 0.62%), and persons with other languages as mother-tongue (412/ 0.05%).

[12]Note: An attempt has been made to include all language groups each with at least 500 persons as their mother-tongue and only those groups with less than 500 persons as their mother-tongue are included in the “other languages” category.

Comparatively smaller language groups with 200+ persons as their mother-tongue are mentioned in the text.

[14] NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India) has released the National Multidimensional Poverty Index (NMPI) baseline report in November 2021.

“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.