Social,
Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
Backwardness : 70
Sex Ratio Rank : 386
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : D (HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 476 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 552 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
District affected by Left Wing Extremism
Challenges of the district : Our research with local communities
Chatra is a Naxal affected district. There are about
four Naxal groups in Chatra. Due to their activities government’s
facilities dont reach common people. This retards the human development.
The government funds are exhorted by the Naxalites to buy arms and
ammunitions. The youths are pressurized to join these groups. This
hampers their education. Children remain uneducated and they migrate
to different places to do odd jobs. Parents get their daughters
married at a young age, as women are also pressurized to join the
Naxal group.
Brief About Chatra District
Chatra District forms North-Eastern parts of the North Chotanagpur
division of Jharkhand State. It is bounded on the North by Gaya
District, on the East by Hazaribagh district and on the west by
Palamu and Gaya District. The major portion of the Chatra district
is coveblack by forest (more than 60%) and has scatteblack settlement
patterns.
Chatra district was a subdivision of Hazaribagh district and
was created as districts vide notification no. 128 dated 29-05-1991
Personnel and Administrative Reforms Dept., Govt. of Bihar. The
district comprises of one subdivision, ten development Blocks/Anchals,
125 Panchayats and 1479 Revenue Villages. There is only one municipality
- that is at the district head quarters of Chatra.
There are 9 thanas (Police Station) in Chatra District. Chatra
is passing through a very serious phase of extremists' violence
by the banned naxal outfit called the M.C.C. (Maoist Communist
Centre). How ever in the recent past the Chatra Police have been
quiet successful in stemming the black tide of the naxal wave.
The Chatra Police has made a number of important arrests of naxalite
personnel as well as seized a number of arms and ammunition along
with lethal explosive materials and devices. The success of the
Chatra Police against the naxal outfits has to a large extent
led to the limiting of naxal violence.
A full-fledged judgeship has started functioning from 16th of
June 2001. Under District and Session Judge, assisted by Additional
District Judge, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Judicial Magistrates
and Munsiff Magistrate. The District also has a functioning District
Consumer Forum. The forest portion comprises of 4 territorial
divisions (North, South Chatra, Koderma, Hazaribagh West) one
afforestation division and 2 state trading divisions. The forest
of Chatra is full of variety of medicinal plants, Kendu leaves,
Bamboo, Sal, Teak, other timber species and a wide range of carnivorous
& herbivorous wild animals. The district has one wild life
sanctuary also known as the Lawalong Wild Life Sanctuary, which
hosts even tigers. The sanctuary was established vide Bihar Govt
notification no. 49/ 48/333 - F, dated 15/07/1978. 82 villages
are located within the sanctuary area of which 21 villages are
in the core area and 61 villages are situated in the buffer zone.
The area of the sanctuary is 26, 886.23 hectares. In the sanctuary
the principal animals that are found are Tigers, Leopards, Bear,
Neelgai, Sambhar, Peacock, Wild Boar and Deer, together with variety
of snakes and birds.
LOCATION AND AREA
The district is situated in the extreme northwest part of the
state of Jharkhand. It is bounded on the north by Gaya (Bihar
State) district and Hazaribagh district and on the east by Hazaribagh
district, on the south by Palamu and Ranchi district and on the
west by Gaya (Bihar State) and Palamu district. This district
has come into being in the year 1991, as previously it was part
of Hazaribagh district. The district headquarters is located at
Chatra
