“Information Related to Municipal (General) Elections- 2026″

About District

Simdega district ranks 22nd in terms of total population and 20th in terms of decadal population growth rate (2001-11) among the 24 districts of Jharkhand. Simdega district has a sex ratio of 1000. The district comprises of ten blocks namely, Simdega, Pakartanr, Kurdeg, Kersai, Bolba, Thethaitangar, Kolebira, Jaldega, Basjor and Bano. As per the Census of 2011, the district has a total of 451 villages and 1 town distributed in three assembly constituencies namely 59-Torpa, 70-Simdega and 71-Kolebira . The Census 2011 figure indicated that the percentage share of scheduled caste population to total population was 7.45 percent while that of scheduled tribes was 70.78 percent. The total area of Simdega District is 3761.20 sq km.
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