Nawadih is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Bermo subdivision of the Bokaro district, Jharkhand state, 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 Nawadih is located at . Nawadih CD block is bounded by Dumri, CD block, in Giridih district, on the north, Topchanchi CD block, in Dhanbad district, and Chandrapura CD block, on the east, Bermo CD block on the south and Bishnugarh CD block, in Hazaribagh district, on the west. Nawadih CD block has an area of 308.92 km2. It has 24 gram panchayats, 70 villages and 1 census town. The Nawadih police station is located in this CD block. Headquarters of this CD block is at Nawadih. Demographics Population According to the 2011 Census of India, Nawadih CD block had a total population of 138,454, of which 133,848 were rural and 4,606 were urban. There were 70,344 (51%) males and 68,110 (49%) females. Population in the age range 0-6 years was 22,236. Scheduled Castes numbered 18,476 (13.34%) and Scheduled Tribes numbered 17,345 (12.53%). Bhandra, with a population of 4,606 in 2011, is a census town in Nawadih CD block. Large villages (with 4,000+ population) in Nawadih CD block are (2011 census figures in brackets): Penk (8,017), Goniatu (5,060), Kanjkiro (5,886), Palamu (5,379), Surhi (4,790), Saharia (4,606), Chiruddih (4,182), Nawadih (4,362) and Birni (4,829). Literacy census the total number of literate persons in Nawadih CD block was 72,697 (62.55% of the population over 6 years) out of which males numbered 44,343 (75.19% of the male population over 6 years)