Bagodar is a community development block (CD block) that forms an administrative division in the Bagodar-Saria subdivision of the Giridih district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Overview Giridih is a plateau region. The western portion of the district is part of a larger central plateau. The rest of the district is a lower plateau, a flat table land with an elevation of about 1,300 feet. At the edges, the ghats drop to about 700 feet. The Pareshnath Hills or Shikharji rises to a height of 4,480 feet in the south-eastern part of the district. The district is thickly forested. Amongst the natural resources, it has coal and mica. Inaugurating the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana in 2016, Raghubar Das, Chief Minister of Jharkhand, had indicated that there were 23 lakh BPL families in Jharkhand. There was a plan to bring the BPL proportion in the total population down to 35%. Maoist activities Jharkhand is one of the states affected by Maoist activities. , Giridih was one of the 14 highly affected districts in the state., Giridih was identified as one of the 13 focus areas by the state police to check Maoist activities. In 2017, the Moists, in Giridih district, have torched more than 50 vehicles engaged in road construction or carrying goods. Geography Bagodar is located at at an elevation of 356 m from mean sea level (MSL). Bagodar CD block is bounded by Sariya CD block on the north, Dumri CD block on the east, Bishnugarh CD block, in Hazaribagh district, on the south and Barkatha CD block, in Hazaribagh district, on the west. Bagodar CD block has an area of 287.49 km2. It has 22 gram panchayats, 63 inhabited villages. Bagodar police station serves this block. Headquarters of this CD block is at Bagodar. 32.32% of the area has forest cover. The Jamunia River originates near Bishungarh. It runs near the Grand Trunk Road from around Bagodar to past Dumri. Tapovan - hot water source in Jamunia River Gram panchayats in Bagodar CD block are: Dharguli, Kudar, Atka (E), Atka (W), Adwara, Mandro, Dewradih, Donaldo, Jarmune (W), Jarmune (E), Bagodardih (W), Bagodardih (E), Hesla, Trila, Oura, Beko (W), Beko (E), Kushmarja, Pokariya, Khetko, Algdiha and Choudhay Bandh. Demographics Population According to the 2011 Census of India, Bagodar CD Block had a total population of 158,094, all of which were rural. There were 80,722 (51%) males and 77,372