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His successor Arjun Munda, also from the BJP, is the longest-serving chief minister; he served for over five years, across three terms but never completed a full term. Three chief ministers, Shibu Soren, his son Hemant Soren, and Champai Soren, represented the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). Shibu Soren's first term ended in just ten days, as he ...
List of governors. Following is the list of governors of Jharkhand since its inception on 15 November 2000. As of date, ten governors have been appointed to office. The first governor was Prabhat Kumar who served from 2000 till 2002. The current governor is C. P. Radhakrishnan who has been in office since 18 February 2023.
Jharkhand (/ ˈ dʒ ɑːr k ə n d /; Hindi: [d͡ʒʱɑːɾkʰəɳɖ]; lit. ' the land of forests ' ) is a state in eastern India . [9] The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south.
At the time of the 2011 census, 51.70% of the population spoke Hindi, 43.88% Khortha, 2.43% Magahi and 1.01% Urdu as their first language.. Rural poverty. 40-50% of the population of Hazaribagh district were in the BPL category in 2004–2005, being in the same category as Godda, Giridih and Koderma districts.
Hindi is the official language in Jharkhand and Urdu has been declared as an additional official language. In 2001 census, Hindus constituted 47.79%, Christians 14.90% and Muslims 10.98% of the population in Littipara CD block. In the district as a whole, Hindus constituted 44.45%, Muslims 32.74% and Christians 6.01% of the population.
Shikaripara is a community development block in India that forms an administrative division in the Dumka Sadar subdivision of the Dumka district, Jharkhand state, India. Geography [ edit ] Shikaripara, the eponymous CD block headquarters, is located at 24°14′21″N 87°28′37″E / 24.23917°N 87.47694°E / 24.23917; 87.
Barhait is a community development block that forms an administrative division in the Sahibganj subdivision of the Sahibganj district, Jharkhand state, India. Geography [ edit ] Barhait, the eponymous CD block headquarters, is located at 24°53′20″N 87°36′26″E / 24.88889°N 87.60722°E / 24.88889; 87.
According to the Population by Mother Tongue 2011 data, in the Kukru subdistrict, Bengali was the mother-tongue of 49,700 persons forming 93.82% of the population, followed by (number of persons and percentage of population in brackets) Santali (2,517/ 4.75%), and persons with other languages as mother-tongue (759/ 1.43%).'Other languages' included 316 persons having Urdu as their mother-tongue.