Social,
Environmental & Economic Sustainability
Our analysis of the rank of the district
Backwardness : 14
Sex Ratio Rank : 442
(Rank one is least sex ratio - Cenus 2001)
HIV Category District : D
(HIV Sentinel Surveillance 2004 - 2006)
Disability : 540 (Census 2001)
Literacy Ratio : 470 (Census 2001)
Minority : Does not figure in MCD
District affected by Left Wing Extremism
Challenges of the district : Our
research with local communities
We lack skill based education which will equip
the youths to go into this competitive world and earn their living.
Women trafficking and migration are the main challenges faced
by us. Women still succumb to violence against them. Women lack
property rights. Government does have resources with them, proper
utilization and motivation is necessary.
Majority of people are poor
Brief About Lohardaga District
With a view to focus on the developmental programmes primarily
to fill gaps, for backward areas which would help reduce imbalances,
speed up development and help the backward areas to overcome poverty,
besides facilitating the States to move up the ladder of reforms,
a new initiative in the form of the ‘Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana’
(RSVY) is being operationalised in the Tenth Plan. The District
Plans of Lohardaga district, for the year 2002-03 were approved
in IInd meeting of the empowered committee on the Rastriya Sam
Vikas Yojana held on 27/2/03 under the chairmanship of secretary
Planning Commission, Govt. Of India.
Overview
Lohardaga district (established after separation
from Ranchi in the year 1983) in Jharkhand is situated between
84040' - 84050' east longitude and 23030' - 23040’ north latitude.
The geographical area of the district is 1491 square kilometers.
There are 5 development blocks (viz. Lohardaga, Kuru, Bhandra,
Senha & Kisko) & 354 revenue villages. Total number of household
are 50,374 out of which 91% are in the rural areas (1991 census).
In 2001, Lohardaga had a total population of 3.64 lakh (population
density of 244 per square kilometer), growing 26.14% since 1991,
which is higher than the population growth rate of Jharkhand at
23.14%. Sex ratio in Lohardaga improved from 971 to 976 over these
years and literacy improved from 41% to 54%. Female literacy grew
from 26% to 40%. The net sown area is only 55% of the total area
of the district. Two blocks i.e. Kisko & Senha have large area
under dense forest cover. The forest cover is around 32-35% of
the total area of the district. The average land holding per household
is 1.65 Ha. The per capita agriculture land is around 0.28 Ha.
Net irrigated area is 13.4% of net sown area (0.8% by canals,
7% by wells, 2% by tanks & 3.6% by lift irrigation & others).
Most of the villages except the hilly pockets of the district
are connected with the roads. Still some of the hamlets have no
linking roads. Electricity is supplied from Patratu Thermal Power
Station that is in the Hazaribagh district. Out of 354 villages
only 25 have rural electrification. Water supply system is not
available in rural area. The villagers get their drinking water
from tube wells and dug wells. There are 318 primary schools,
68 middle schools, 20 High schools, 2 higher secondary schools
and one college in the district. In this district, there is a
district hospital, one referral hospital, five primary health
sub-centre, ten additional primary health centre, seventy three
health sub-centre. The inhabitants of this district mainly depend
on agriculture, forest produce and seasonal migration to different
parts of the country. 80% of the population depends upon agriculture.
The main crop of this area is paddy. In the small irrigated area
wheat is grown to meet the annual food sufficiency. Also this
district is linked with larger vegetable markets like Jamshedpur,
Rourkela and Calcutta. There is a cold storage in the district.
But profitable vegetable cultivation is being limited to roadside
non- tribal. Generally, villagers of the district keep plough
animals. Also they keep goats and poultry birds as buffer. Although
there is a dairy chilling plant in the district head quarter,
dairy is practised by very few people mainly non-tribal.
