Амрапара: Обзор административного блока в Джаркханде

the community development block in Jharkhand, India

Amrapara is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Pakur subdivision of the Pakur district, Jharkhand state, India.

Amrapara, the eponymous CD block headquarters, is located at
It is located 36 km from Pakur, the district headquarters. A predominantly hilly area, Pakur district has pockets of plain land. A long but narrow stretch between the Farakka Feeder Canal, located outside the district, and the Sahibganj loop line is very fertile. The Littipara and Amrapara CD blocks are largely covered by the Rajmahal hills. The rest of the district is rolling uplands. The district, once famous for its forests, have lost all of it, except a few hill tops in the Damin i koh area. Amrapara CD block is bounded by Littipara block CD block on the north, Maheshpur CD block on the east, Gopikandar CD block in Dumka district on the south, and Sunderpahari CD block in Godda district on the west. Amrapara CD block has an area of 273.23 km2. Amrapara police station serves this block. Headquarters of this CD block is at Amrapara village.

According to the 2011 Census of India, Amrapara CD block had a total population of 65,289, all of which were rural. There were 32,923 (50%) males and 32,366 (50%) females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 12,785. Scheduled Castes numbered 1,572 (2.71%) and Scheduled Tribes numbered 53,623 (82.13%).

50 60% of the population of Pakur district were in the BPL category in 2004–2005, being in the same category as Sahebganj, Deoghar and Garhwa districts. Rural poverty in Jharkhand declined from 66% in 1993–94 to 46% in 2004–05. In 2011, it has come down to 39.1%.

In Amrapara CD block in 2011, amongst the class of total workers, cultivators numbered 17,500 and formed 49.04%, agricultural labourers numbered 12,319 and formed 34.52%, household industry workers numbered 1,746 and formed 4.89% and other workers numbered 4,1420 and formed 11.55%. Total workers numbered 51,632 and formed 48.35% of the total population. Non workers numbered 54,069 and formed 51.15% of total population. Note: In the census records a person is considered a cultivator, if the person is engaged in cultivation/ supervision of land owned. When a person who works on another person's land for wages in cash or kind or share, is regarded as an agricultural labourer. Household industry is defined as an industry conducted by one or more members of the family within the household or village, and one that does not qualify for registration as a factory under the Factories Act. Other workers are persons engaged in some economic activity other than cultivators, agricultural labourers and household workers. It includes factory, mining, plantation, transport and office workers, those engaged in business and commerce, teachers and entertainment artistes.

There are 121 inhabited villages in Amrapara CD block. In 2011, 10 villages had power supply. 18 villages had tap water (treated/ untreated), 114 villages had well water (covered/ uncovered), 104 villages had hand pumps, and all villages had drinking water facility. 11 villages had post offices, 3 villages had sub post offices, 4 villages had telephones (land lines), 8 villages had public call offices and 39 villages had mobile phone coverage. 119 villages had pucca (paved) village roads, 11 villages had bus service (public/ private), 2 villages had autos/ modified autos, 9 villages had taxis/ vans, 10 villages had tractors, 2 villages had navigable waterways. 3 villages had bank branches, 4 villages had agricultural credit societies, 16 villages had cinema/ video halls, 3 villages had public libraries, public reading room. 34 villages had public distribution system, 9 villages had weekly haat (market) and 5 villages had assembly polling stations.

In Amrapara circle, Eastern Coalfields Limited operates Chilgo and other collieries, which are part of Rajmahal coalfield. Panem Coal operates the Pachhwara Central project with reserves of 562 million tonnes of coal at Panchuara.

Pakur is predominantly a hilly district. There is a narrow fertile alluvial tract bordering the Ganges Feeder Canal. While the hills stretch from the north to the south east, the rest is rolling area, which is less conducive to agricultural operations than the alluvial strip. The net sown area of the district is around 28%. Thus though the district is predominantly agricultural it offers only limited opportunities to the people. Many people from the district migrate to the neighbouring districts of West Bengal during the agricultural seasons.

Pakur district is listed as a backward region and receives financial support from the Backward Regions Grant Fund. The fund created by the Government of India is designed to redress regional imbalances in development. As of 2012, 272 districts across the country were listed under this scheme. The list includes 21 districts of Jharkhand.

Amrapara CD block had 6 villages with pre primary schools, 96 villages with primary schools, 43 villages with middle schools, 5 villages with secondary schools, 25 villages with no educational facility.

Amrapara CD block had 1 village with primary health centre, 19 villages with primary health subcentres, 5 village with maternity and child welfare centre, 3 villages with TB clinics, 5 villages with allopathic hospitals, 8 villages with dispensaries, 3 villages with veterinary hospitals, 5 villages with family welfare centres, 13 villages with medicine shops. . *Private medical practitioners, alternative medicine etc. not included