Jena, Bokaro Explained

Jena
Native Name:Jainamore
Native Name Lang:Hindi
Other Name:Jenamore
Settlement Type:Census Town
Pushpin Map:India Jharkhand#India3
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Jharkhand, India
Coordinates:23.68°N 86.02°W
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: India
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Jharkhand
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Bokaro
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Total Km2:2.69
Population Total:8143
Population As Of:2011
Population Density Km2:auto
Demographics Type1:Languages
Demographics1 Title1:Official
Demographics1 Info1:Hindi, Santali
Timezone1:IST
Utc Offset1:+5:30
Postal Code Type:PIN
Postal Code:829301 (Jaina)
Area Code Type:Telephone/STD code
Area Code:06542
Registration Plate:JH 09
Blank1 Name Sec1:Lok Sabha constituency
Blank1 Info Sec1:Giridih
Blank2 Name Sec1:Vidhan Sabha constituency
Blank2 Info Sec1:Bermo

Jena is a census town in the Jaridih CD block in the Bermo subdivision of the Bokaro district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

Geography

Location

Jena is located at 23.68°N 86.02°W.

Area overview

Bokaro district consists of undulating uplands on the Chota Nagpur Plateau with the Damodar River cutting a valley right across. It has an average elevation of above mean sea level. The highest hill, Lugu Pahar, rises to a height of . The East Bokaro Coalfield located in the Bermo-Phusro area and small intrusions of Jharia Coalfield make Bokaro a coal rich district. In 1965, one of the largest steel manufacturing units in the country, Bokaro Steel Plant, operated by Steel Authority of India Limited, was set-up at Bokaro Steel City. The Damodar Valley Corporation established its first thermal power station at Bokaro (Thermal). The long, high earthfill dam with composite masonry cum concrete spillway, Tenughat Dam, across the Damodar River, is operated by the Government of Jharkhand. The average annual rainfall is . The soil is generally infertile and agriculture is mostly rain-fed.[1] [2]

Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the district. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Jena had a total population of 8,143, of which 4,314 (53%) were males and 3,829 (47%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 7,017. The total number of literate persons in Jena was 5,530 (78.81% of the population over 6 years).[3]

As of 2001 India census,[4] Jena had a population of 7,154. Males constituted 54% of the population and females 46%. Jena had an average literacy rate of 63%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy was 75%, and female literacy was 50%. In Jena, 14% of the population was under 6 years of age.

Infrastructure

According to the District Census Handbook 2011, Bokaro, Jena covered an area of 2.69 km2. Among the civic amenities, it had 7 km roads with both open and closed drains, the protected water supply involved uncovered well, handpump. It had 1,392 domestic electric connections, 40 road lighting points. Among the medical facilities, it had 1 hospital, 1 dispensary, 1 health centre, 1 family welfare centre, 1 maternity and child welfare centre, 1 maternity home, 1 nursing home, 3 medicine shops. Among the educational facilities it had 4 primary schools, 1 middle school, 1 secondary school, the nearest senior secondary school, general degree college at Bandh Dih 2 km away. It had 1 special school for the disabled, 2 working women’s hostels, 1 old age home. Two important commodities it produced were pulses and oil seeds. It had the branch offices of 2 nationalised banks, 1 cooperative bank, 1 agricultural credit society, 1 non-agricultural credit society.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: District Census Handbook Bokaro 2011 . Physical features, Mines and minerals, Indistires, p 7-8 . Directorate of Census Operations . 30 May 2021 .
  2. Web site: Tenughat Dam . india9 . 30 May 2021 .
  3. Web site: District Census Handbook, Bokaro, Series 21, Part XII B. Rural PCA-C.D. blocks wise Village Primary Census Abstract, location no. 362595, page 168. Directorate of Census Operations Jharkhand . 9 March 2021.
  4. Web site: Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional). https://web.archive.org/web/20040616075334/http://www.censusindia.net/results/town.php?stad=A&state5=999. 2004-06-16. 2008-11-01. Census Commission of India.
  5. Web site: District Census Handbook Bokaro, Census of India 2011, Series 20, Part XII A . Pages 384-397. Directorate of census Operations, Jharkhand . 2 March 2021.