Bermo block

Bermo
Community development block
Bermo Location in Jharkhand, India
Coordinates:
Country	India
State	Jharkhand
District	Bokaro
Area
• Total	165.7 km2 (64.0 sq mi)
Elevation	214 m (702 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	100,599
• Density	610/km2 (1,600/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Hindi, Santali
Literacy (2011)
• Total literates	69,543 (79.04%)
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	829104 (Bermo)
Telephone/STD code	06549
Vehicle registration	JH 09
Lok Sabha constituency	Giridih
Vidhan Sabha constituency	Bermo
Website	bokaro.nic.in
CD Block

Bermo is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Bermo subdivision of Bokaro district, Jharkhand state, India. It is located 30 km from Bokaro Steel City the district headquarters.

Geography

Bermo is located at .

Bermo CD Block has an area of 165.7 km² and has 19 panchayats and 10 villages.

Konar River passes Gomia to receive the waters of the Bokaro River, shortly before it joins the Damodar River near Jaridih Bazar in Bokaro district.

Demographics

As per 2011 Census of India Bermo CD Block had a total population of 100,599, of which 4,222 were rural and 96,377 were urban. There were 52,481 males and 48,118 females. Scheduled Castes numbered 14,693 and Scheduled Tribes numbered 6,538. Population below 6 years was 12,616.

Bermo CD Block has several census towns (2011 population figure in brackets): Bokaro (39,305), Kurpania (7,789), Bermo (17,401) and Jaridih Bazar (31,882).Phusro Urban Agglomeration is composed of Phusro (Nagar Parishad), Bermo (Census Town), Jaridih Bazar (CT), Bokaro (CT) and Kurpania (CT).

Hindi is the local language in the Bermo area.

Literacy

As per 2011 census the total number of literates in Bermo CD Block was 69,543 (79.04% of the population above 6 years) out of which 39,976 were males and 29,567 were females.

As per 2011 census, literacy in Bokaro district was 72.01Literacy in Jharkhand (for population over 7 years) was 66.41% in 2011. Literacy in India in 2011 was 74.04%.

Economy

Coal mining

Bokaro and Kargali area of Central Coalfields Limited operates the following projects in East Bokaro Coalfield among others in Bokaro district: Bokaro open cast, Karagli OC, Kargali underground, Karo OC, Karo UG, Karo Spl. UG, Khas Mahal OC, Khas Mahal UG and Kargali Washery. Dhori area of CCL operates: Amlo OC, Dhori OC, Selected Dhori Quarry No.I OC, Selected Dhori Quarry No. III OC, New Selected Dhori UG and Dhori Khas UG.

• See also: 1965 Dhanbad coal mine disaster

Power stations

Bokaro Thermal Power Station ‘A’ was the first thermal power station of DVC. It had three units of 45 MW each supplied by GE, USA in 1953, and one unit of 40 MW supplied by MAN, Germany in 1960. All the four were decommissioned in 2000.As of 2015, a new 500 MW unit is under construction.

Bokaro Thermal Power Station B of DVC has three uints of 210 MW each. These came up in 1987, 1991 and 1994.

Politics

Bermo is considered to be one of the political hubs of Jharkhand. There are a number of political activities taking place in the Bermo Block. This is the working place of many of the political leaders like Lt. Bindeshwari Singh, Lt. Bindeswari Dubey (Ex. C.M.), Lt. Phulena Prasad Verma, Lt. Ramadhar Singh, Lt. Santan Singh, Lt. Ramdas singh, Lt. Ram Padarat Pandey, Lt. Raghuvansh Sahay, Rajendra Pd. Singh, Rabindra Kr. Pandey, Vikram Singh and others.

Transportation

The Gomoh-Barkakhana line serves Bermo Block.