With the East India Company acquiring the diwani of Bengal, Bihar and Odisha in 1765, it derived the right to collect revenue from the Ramgarh regime.

After the Kol uprising in 1831, the British reorganised the administrative structure of the area.

The gender disparity (the difference between female and male literacy rates) was 19.43%.

Moreover, one-fourth of the households depend directly on the coal industry for income, most of them being informal workers."

In Ramgarh district, which is a top coal-producing area, half of the coalmines have shut down/ closed, and among those being operated two-thirds are unprofitable.

[16] The foundation stone for the 800 x 5 MW Patratu Super Thermal Power Project was laid by Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, in 2018.

[18] Jindal Steel and Power has set up a 0.6 million tonnes per year wire rod mill and a 1 million tonnes per year bar mill at Patratu.