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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Sijua
| utc_offset1 = +5:30
| settlement_type = Census Town
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Jharkhand, India
| pushpin_map = India Jharkhand#India
| registration_plate = '''JH-09'''
| timezone1 = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| website = {{URL|bokaro.nic.in/}}
| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| unit_pref = Metric
| subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| pushpin_label_position = right
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name2 = [[Bokaro district|Bokaro]]
| subdivision_name1 = [[Jharkhand]]
| subdivision_name = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
| elevation_m = 205
| postal_code = '''828307'''
| area_code_type = Telephone/[[Subscriber trunk dialling|STD]]
| population_total = 3601
| population_density_km2 = auto
| population_as_of = 2022
| native_name_lang = bn
| established_title = 
| demographics_type1 = Languages
| area_code = 06549
| demographics1_info1 = [[Hindi language|Hindi]], [[English language|English]]
| demographics1_title1 = Official
| demographics1_info2 = [[Khortha language|Khortha]]
| demographics1_title2 = Spoken
| coordinates = {{coord|23.7691|N|86.1674|E|display=inline,title}}
| blank2_name_sec1 = [[Vidhan Sabha]] constituency
| blank2_info_sec1 = [[Bermo (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Bermo]]
| blank1_name_sec1 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
| blank1_info_sec1 = [[Giridih (Lok Sabha constituency)|Giridih]]
| other_name =
| area_total_km2 = 2.18
| postal2_code_type = [[Census]] [[Code]] (Sijua)
| postal2_code = 362291
| image_skyline = SijuaBasti.jpg
| image_caption = Residential houses in Sijua Basti
}}
'''Sijua''' is a [[Census town]] and [[Gram Panchayat]] in the [[Chandrapura (community development block)|Chandrapura CD Block]] in the [[Bermo|Bermo subdivision]] of the [[Bokaro district]] in the state of [[Jharkhand, India]].
The Sijua Gram Panchayat consists of mainly SC & OBC Populations.

== Geography ==
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=== Location ===
Sijua is situated to the North - West of [[Chandrapura (community development block)]] at {{coord|23.7691|N|86.1674|E|}}.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Districts Census Handbook, Bokaro, Series 21, Part XII B|url=https://censusofindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/2010_PART_B_DCHB_BOKARO.pdf|access-date=10 March 2021|website=Rural PCA-C.D. blocks wise Village Primary Census Abstract, location no.362291, page 114|publisher=Directorate of Census Operations Jharkhand}}</ref>

===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 200 to 540 metres (660 to 1,770 ft) above mean sea level. The highest hill, Lugu Pahar, rises to a height of 1,070 metres (3,510 ft). 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 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) long, 55 metres (180 ft) 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 1,291.2 millimetres (50.83 in). The soil is generally infertile and agriculture is mostly rain-fed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=District Census Handbook Bokaro 2011 |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/20/2010_PART_A_DCHB_BOKARO.pdf |website=Physical features, Mines and minerals, Indistires, p 7-8 |publisher=Directorate of Census Operations}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Tenughat Dam |url=http://www.india9.com/i9show/Tenughat-Dam-49898.htm |publisher=India9}}</ref>

== Demographics ==
As of [[2011 Census of India]], there are total 890 families residing in the Sijua town. The total population of Sijua is 3601 out of which 1852 [ 51.43% ] are males and 1749 [ 48.56% ] are females thus the Sex Ratio of females per thousands of males in sijua gram panchayat is 944.<ref name=":0" /> The population of children of age between 0–6 years in sijua is 597 which is 14% of the total population. There are 327 male children and 270 female children between the age 0–6 years. Thus as per the [[2011 Census of India]] the Child Sex Ratio of Sijua is 826 which is less than Average Sex Ratio (924). The Sijua Gram Panchayat Consists Of the following villages which is Ghutve, Sijua Pahadi, Bokaro Jharia & Itself Sijua. As per the [[Census of India]], the literacy rate of Sijua is 73.3%. Thus Sijua has higher literacy rate compared to 72% of [[Bokaro district]]. The male literacy rate is 83.98% and the female literacy rate is 61.93% in Sijua. As per the [[2011 Census of India]], the total Hindu population in Sijua is 3488 which is 96.87% of the total population. Also the total Muslim population in Sijua is 44 which is 1.21% of the total population. Below is religion-wise population of Sijua as per [[2011 Census of India|Census 2011]].

== Government and politics ==
[[File:BOKARO JHARIA FOOTBALL GROUND.jpg|thumb]]
Sijua [[Gram panchayat]] is the [[Local self-government]] of the village.<ref>{{Cite web|title=District Bokaro, Government of Jharkhand {{!}} India|url=https://bokaro.nic.in/|access-date=2021-04-22|language=en-US}}</ref> There are wards, each represented by an elected ward member. The establishment of the gram panchayat Reserved for SC - Female sijua is in the year 2015.

== Education ==
As per the school information report for the academic year 2019–20, the village has a total of 5 school. These school include 4 Government school and 1 Private Unaided School.<ref>{{Cite web|title=DoSE&L|url=https://schooleducation.jharkhand.gov.in/|access-date=2021-04-22|website=schooleducation.jharkhand.gov.in}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[List of cities in Jharkhand by population]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Bokaro District}}

[[Category:Cities and towns in Bokaro district]]

Sijua, Bokaro - Revision history

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