Gadhra

Gadhra is a census town in the Golmuri cum Jugsalai CD block in the Dhalbhum subdivision of the Purbi Singhbhum district in the state of Jharkhand, India.

Gadhra is located at .

With its recognition as an industrial town as early as the 1911 census, Jamshedpur was set on the road of steady population growth, as large number of emigrants flocked in for work opportunities. While in the earlier decades the central nucleus grew, in the later decades towns around Jamshedpur grew rapidly. In 2011, Jamshedpur Urban Agglomeration included 13 urban centres, with a total population of 1.3 million people. However, in more recent years, Jamshedpur UA “has lacked the growth and development observed around other similar industrial towns in western and southern India.”

Note: The map alongside presents the Jamshedpur Urban Agglomeration. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Purbi Singhbhum, Gadhra covered an area of It has an annual rainfall of Among the civic amenities, it had of roads with open drains, the protected water supply involved hand pump, uncovered well. It had 3,228 domestic electric connections. Among the medical facilities, it had 2 hospitals, 2 dispensaries, 2 health centres, 18 family welfare centres, 18 maternity and child welfare centres, 16 maternity homes, 3 nursing homes, 4 veterinary hospitals, 5 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had 7 primary schools, 4 middle schools, 2 secondary schools, 1 senior secondary school, the nearest general degree college at Karandih, away. Two important commodities it produced were cement, iron. It had the branch offices of 1 nationalised bank, 1 private commercial bank, 1 cooperative bank, 12 non agricultural credit soc1eties.