Garhwa is a town which is also headquarters of Garhwa district of Jharkhand state, India. Garhwa district is one of the twenty-two districts of Jharkhand state, India, and Garhwa town is the administrative headquarters of this district. ... Jharkhand (झारखंड in Devanagari) is a state in eastern India. ... India is subdivided into twenty-eight states, six union territories and the National Capital Territory. ...

The district

On 1st April, 1991, some area of Palamau was carved out to form Garhwa district. (Redirected from 1st April) April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... ...

The district lies between 23° 60’ and 24° 39’ north latitude and 83° 22’ and 84° 00’ east longitude, and is bordered by river Sone on the north, Palamau district of Jharkhand state on the east, Surguja district of Chhattisgarh state on the south, and Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh on the west. Latitude, usually denoted symbolically by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... Longitude, sometimes denoted by the Greek letter λ, describes the location of a place on Earth east or west of a north-south line called the Prime Meridian. ... The sone is a unit of perceived loudness after a proposal of S. Smith Stevens in 1936. ... Jharkhand (झारखंड in Devanagari) is a state in eastern India. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Chhattisgarh (Chhattisgarhi: छत्तीसगढ़) , a state in central India, formed when the sixteen Chhattisgarhi speaking southeastern districts of Madhya Pradesh gained statehood on November 1, 2000. ... Sonbhadra or Sonebhadra is the largest district of Uttar Pradesh, India. ... Uttar Pradesh (Hindi: उत्तर प्रदेश, Urdu: اتر پردیش), also popularly known by its abbreviation UP, is the most populous and fifth largest state in the Union of India. ...

• Population: 1024151 (2001 census)

The district consists mostly forests and has only one town, Garhwa, which is also the district headquarters. Garhwa district is a part of Palamau Commissionery consisting of fourteen blocks and two subdivisions, Garhwa and Nagar-Untari. At the time of creation there were eight blocks named as 1. Bhandaria, 2. Bhawanathpur, 3. Dhuraki, 4. Garhwa, 5. Majhiyaon, 6. Meral, 7. Nagar-Untari, and 8. Ranka. Later on six more blocks were created from the old one to provide efficient administration, named as 1. Chiniya, 2. Dandai, 3. Kandi, 4. Kharaundhi,5. Ramkanda, and 6. Ramuna. Currenty altogether there are fourteen blocks in Garhwa district. There are 156 Gram-Panchayat and 916 villages. It has two police sub-division named as Garhwa and Nagar-Untari with eight police stations as Bhandaria, Bhawnathpur, Dhurki, Garhwa, Majhiyaon, Meral, Nagar-Untari, and Ranka. A forest is an area with a high density of trees (or, historically, a wooded function as carbon dioxide sinks, animal habitats, hydrologic flow modulators, and soil conservers, constituting one of the most important aspects of the Earths biosphere. ... Main street in Bastrop, Texas, a small town A town is a residential community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ...

External links

• Garhwa District Administration