| Padwa | |
| Settlement Type: | Block |
| Pushpin Map: | India Jharkhand |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Jharkhand, India |
| Coordinates: | 24.1736°N 84.0602°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  India |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Jharkhand |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Palamu |
| Subdivision Type3: | Block |
| Subdivision Name3: | Padwa |
| Leader Title1: | MLA |
| Leader Name1: | Radha Krishna Kishore Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Population Total: | 46,957 |
| Population As Of: | 2001 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics Type1: | Languages |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
| Demographics1 Info1: | Magahi, Hindi |
| Timezone1: | IST |
| Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
| Postal Code Type: | PIN |
| Postal Code: | 822123 |
Padwa or Pandwa is one of the administrative community development block of Palamu district, Jharkhand state, India. The Pandwa block has 8,985 households with aggregate population of 46,957. The block has 8 panchayats and about 34 villages.
Pandwa a Taluka/Block, close to Medininager Palamu, is located 18 km from Medininagar(Daltonganj). Pandwa is a part of Chhatarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Pandwa is located in north of Daltonganj. It is well connected by NH 98.
Pandwa mod is one of the main landmark in this place. This is one of the junction point of Palamu district. One junction goes towards Manahar and Lamipatra. second junction goes towards Aurangabad, Bihar through Amba and Hariharganj. Third junction goes towards Garwa towards NH75. It is well covered by Vodafone, Airtel, Uninor, Reliance, BSNL, Aircel, Idea, Airtel 3G, like cellular networks. ATM facility is also available here for SBI near Pandwa Branch.
Pandwa mandal/Block consists of 8 Panchayats. The following are the list of Panchayats in the Block:
There are about 34 villages in Pandwa block, which you can browse from villages list below.
Languages spoken here include Asuri, an Austroasiatic language spoken by approximately 17,000 in India, largely in the southern part of Palamu;[1] and Bhojpuri, a tongue in the Bihari language group with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in both the Devanagari and Kaithi scripts.[2]
A small market called as Pandwa bazaar is situated in middle of the block which 1 km away from Pandwa block administrative building.Common shops like kirana, general store, saloon, cloth shop, fashion stores, jewelry stores, medicine stores etc. exists here in huge number.
A police station is situated at the heart of Pandwa block. This police station is one of the important police station in Palamu district.
Two Banks are situated nearby Pandwa Bazaar. They are State Bank of India (SBIN0009494) and Palamu kshetriya Gramin Bank. SBI Bank has 24 hr ATM facility.