Quick Evaluation Study on Fourteen (14) Major Development Programmes in 33 Selected Districts of the 8 States Affected by Left Wing Extremism (LWE) Volume-V

Abstract

The state of Jharkhand became a functional reality on November 15, 2000 after almost sixty years of people's movements around the Jharkhandi identity. Located on Chhota Nagpur plateau and Santhal Parganas, it has evergreen forests, rolling hills and rocky plateaus with many places of mystic beauty. It has been carved out of the relatively backward southern part of undivided Bihar, sharing borders with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east. The industrial city of Ranchi is its capital, while other major cities and industrial centres are Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Sindri, Deoghar Hazaribagh and Gumla.