PACS in Jharkhand
PACS covers 12 of Jharkhand’s 24 districts.
People belonging to three main socially excluded groups: scheduled castes (SCs), scheduled tribes (STs) and Muslims, constitute 57.9% of the total population of the 12 PACS districts in Jharkhand, according to Census 2001 data.
Key indicators of the state: Jharkhand
| Total population (Census 2001) | 26.9 million |
| Decadal growth 1991-2001 (Census 2001) | 23.36% |
| Crude birth rate (SRS* 2008) | 25.8 |
| Crude death rate (SRS 2008) | 7.1 |
| Total fertility rate (SRS 2007) | 3.2 |
| Infant mortality ratio (SRS 2008) | 46 |
| Maternal mortality ratio (SRS 2004-2006) | 312 |
| Sex ratio (Census 2001) | 914 |
| Rural population below poverty line # | 46.3% |
| Scheduled caste population (Census 2001) | 3.19 million (11.8%) |
| Scheduled tribe population (Census 2001) | 7.09 million (26.3%) |
| Female literacy rate (Census 2001) | 38.9 |
PACS districts in Jharkhand (Click on a district to view its key indicators)
| Bokaro | Chatra |
| Deoghar | Dumka |
| Gumla | Jamtara |
| Lohardaga | West Singhbhum (Pashchimi Singhbhum) |
| Pakaur | Giridih |
| Sahibganj | Palamu |
Footnote: * Sample Registration System, Office of Registrar General, India, quoted in website of National Rural Health Mission (http://www.mohfw.nic.in/NRHM/Health_Profile.htm)
# Planning Commission estimate for 2004-05, using uniform recall period consumption-distribution data of National Sample Survey (NSS) 61st Round, quoted in `Poverty estimates for 2004-05’, press release of Press Information Bureau, Government of India, March 2007
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Under the Right to Basic Needs in Jharkhand our key focus areas are education & health and nutrition. We also identify discriminatory practices that hinder access to basic services.
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