Petarwar (also spelled Peterwar) is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Bermo subdivision of the Bokaro district, Jharkhand state, India. Overview Bokaro district, a part of the Chota Nagpur Plateau, has undulating surface with the altitude varying between 200 and 282 m. Topographically, the entire area is divided into three parts – the Bokaro uplands in the west, the Bokaro-Chas uplands in the middle and Barakar basin in the east. The general slope of the region is from the west to the east. The main rivers are the Damodar, Garga, Parga, Konar and Gobei. The district, covered with hills and forests, is a mining-industrial area. With the construction of the gigantic Bokaro Steel Plant in the nineteen sixties, it has become the focal point of this district. Maoist activities Jharkhand is one of the states affected by Maoist activities. , Bokaro was one of the 14 highly affected districts in the state., Bokaro was identified as one of the 13 focus areas by the state police to check Maoist activities. Geography Petarwar is located at . Petarwar CD block is bounded by Bermo CD block on the north, Jaridih and Kasmar CD blocks on the east, Gola CD blocks, in Ramgarh district, on the south and Gomia CD block on the west. Petarwar CD block has an area of 307.31 km2. It has 23 gram panchayats, 65 villages and 1 census town. Petarwar police station is located in this CD block. Headquarters of this CD block is at Petarwar. Demographics Population According to the 2011 Census of India, Peterwar CD block had a total population of 132,150, of which 127,617 were rural and 4,533 were urban. There were 68,127 (52%) males and 64,023 (48%) females. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 19,946. Scheduled Castes numbered 19,620 (14.85%) and Scheduled Tribes numbered 18,349 (13.88%). Tenu with a population of 4,533 in 2011 is the only census town in Petarwar CD block. Large villages (with 4,000+ population) in Petarwar CD block are (2011 census figures in brackets): Petarwar (5,060), Gharwatanr Baludih (4,248), Champi (5,864), Khetko (8,057), Chalkari (7,895), Pichhri (10,581) and Angwali (9,059). Literacy census the total number of literate persons in Peterwar CD block was 69,942 (62.33% of the population over 6 years) out of which males numbered 42,745 (73.85% of the male population over 6 years) and females numbered 27,197 (50.06% of the