Udhwa (community development block): Difference between revisions

50-60% of the population of Sahibganj district were in the [[Below Poverty Line|BPL]] category in 2004–2005, being in the same category as Pakur, Deoghar and Garhwa districts.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/45258/1/MPRA_paper_45258.pdf  | title =  Rural Poverty in Jharkhad, India| work = Table I: Spatial Distribution of Poverty in Jharkhand | publisher =  Munich Personal RePEc Archive | access-date =  1 November 2020}}</ref>"Based on the number of the total rural households in Census 2011 and BPL Revision Survey of 2010-11 the percentage of BPL households in rural areas is 86.03 percent."<ref>{{cite web | url = https://sahibganj.nic.in/profile/  | title = Sahibganj | work = District Profile | publisher =  Jharkhand Government | access-date =  22 October 2020}}</ref> Rural poverty in Jharkhand declined from 66% in 1993–94 to 46% in 2004–05. In 2011, it has come down to 39.1%.<ref>{{cite web | url =  https://niti.gov.in/writereaddata/files/Jharkhand%20presentation.pdf | title =  Eliminating poverty  | publisher =  Jharkhand government  | access-date =  1 November 2020}}</ref>

A large part of Sahibganj district is hilly and most of the thick forests are gone. Some of the plains are cultivable.<ref name=geography1/><ref name=admin/> The livelihood scenario presented above indicates that a large population depends on agriculture. In Udhwa CD block 62.66% of the total area is cultivable area and 43.16% of the cultivable area is irrigated area.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/DCHB_A/20/2007_PART_A_DCHB_SAHIBGANJ.pdf| title = District Census Handbook, Sahibganj, 2011, Series 21, Part XII A | work = Table 41: Distribution of villages according to land use, 2011  | publisher =  Directorate of Census Operations, Jharkhand. | access-date =  14 November 2020}}</ref>