District Profile


At a Glance

L ATEHAR has been named after the village of the same name on Ranchi Daltonganj Road. It is 100 k.m. away by road from Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand. Latehar is famous for its rich natural beauty, forest, forest products and mineral deposits. Latehar remained an integral part of Palamau District as a sub division since 1924.

It got elevated from sub divisional status to a district on 4th April 2001 vide Jharkhand Govt. Notification No 946 dated 04.04.2001. Latehar is located on the north–west corner of Jharkhand in the Palamau Commissionary. It is surrounded by Ranchi, Lohardaga, Gumla, Palamau and Chatra district apart from Chhattisgarh state and district headquarters is situated at 84.51198 East Longitude and 23.741988 North Latitude.

It’s a predominantly tribal district with almost 45.54% of the population belonging to the schedule tribes and more than 66 % of total population comprises SCs and STs. The total area of the district is 3,622.50 Sq. Km and one of the block headquarters is more than 200 K.M. away from the district headquarters.

There are two subdivisions (Latehar and Mahuadanr) and nine Community Development Blocks in the district within which distantly located villages are scattered amidst the dense forest, hilly terrains and agricultural fields. The number of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes is predominantly high here and Latehar comes under Tribal Sub Plan Area.

 

 

 

S.N. Name of The Block No of Villages Total No. of Panchayat Area Sq. Km.
1 LATEHAR Total Villages : 166
Inhabited Villages : 19		 18 458.83
2 CHANDWA Total Villages : 85
Inhabited Villages : 0		 17 587.86
3 BALUMATH Total Villages : 67
Inhabited Villages : 4		 13 351.51
4 MANIKA Total Villages : 84
Inhabited Villages : 2		 15 338.86
5 BARWADIH Total Villages : 83
Inhabited Villages : 2		 16 435.26
6 GARU Total Villages : 74
Inhabited Villages : 5		 8 222.98
7 MAHUADANR Total Villages : 106
Inhabited Villages : 8		 14 637.83
8 BARIYATU Total Villages : 56
Inhabited Villages : 0		 9 337.40
9 HERHANJ Total Villages : 51
Inhabited Villages : 0		 5 251.97
  TOTAL Total Villages : 772
Inhabited Villages : 40		 115 3622.50

 

 

 

Particulars Latehar Garu Mahuadanr Barwadih Manika Balumath Chandwa Total
Geographical Area (in ha.) 47915 23429 66922 455545 35289 98454 61514 379068
A.   Net Cultivated Area 13060 1809 11352 3994 5622 7107 11214 54158
B.   Current Fallow Land 7304 2068 9984 7585 403 12486 5972 45802
C.   Barren Non Cultivable 4585 845 5830 2408 2956 5843 3254 24721
D.   Forest 19524 16240 25838 24167 19012 54259 33710 162745
E.   Land put to non agrl.                
I.   Land area 1083 888 3424 2122 739 1198 1463 11017
Ii.   Water area                
Permanent 480 50 184 189 150 493 64 1610
Seasonal 192 - 300 139 92 191 141 1055
F.   Cultivated Waste Land 736 394 260 854 626 1748 1911 6519
G.   Permanent pasture & other grazing land 143 - 766 78 6 249 - 1242
H.   Micl. Trees & tree crops not involved in (a) 237 - 978 152 280 4793 75 6515
Other Fallow Land 4405 1433 7007 3860 2804 10088 3715 33315

 

Population of Latehar District

 

S.N. Block Total no of Village Population Litracy Sex Ratio
1 Bariatu 56 60,095 43.6% 979
2 Balumath 67 89,012 47.3% 964
3 Heranj 51 34,630 43.3% 949
4 Chandwa 85 106,653 47.4% 969
5 Latehar 167 144,495 50.5% 968
6 Manika 84 88,095 47.2% 961
7 Barwadih 83 98,992 45.2% 958
8 Garu 74 30,274 45.6% 988
9 Mahuwadarn 106 74,732 58.5% 971

 

Principal Crops of the District

 

S.N. Crop Kharif Rabi Zaid
1 Cereal Rice, Maize, Millets Wheat Summer rice
2 Oil seed crop Groundnut, Niger, Sesamum Toria, Rai, Mustard, Linseed.  
3 Pulses Crop Arhar, Urid, Mung Pea, Gram,  
4 Vegetables Bhindi, Cowpea, Cucurubits etc. Potato, Tomato, Bringal etc. Bhindi, Cowpea, Cucurubits etc.
5 Fruits Crop Papaya, Jackfruit, Mango, etc. Guava, Mahua Jack fruit, Mango etc.