Draft:Egarkund (Community development block)

Egarkund is a community development block of Dhanbad district in Jharkhand.(India)

Overview
Egarkund is a Community development block. It covers an area of 59.25 km² and a total population of 159,613 out of which 82,857 are male and 76,756 are female.

Maoist Activities
Jharkhand is one of the states affected by Maoist activities. As of 2012, Dhanbad was one of the highly/moderately affected districts in the state.As of 2016, Dhanbad was not identified as a focus area by the state police to check Maoist activities. However, there were some isolated Maoist activities in the Dhanbad area.

Panchayat List
There are 20 Gram Panchayats in Egarkund CD Block.

1.Agarkund North

2.Agarkund South

3.Amkura

4.Brindabanpur

5.Chanch

6.Dumarkunda North

7.Dumarkunda South

8.Gopalpur

9.Gopinathpur

10.Jograth

11.Kalimati

12.Kalipahadi North

13.Kalipahadi South

14.Mehra

15.Panchmohali

16.Siwalbari East

17.Siwalbari Middle

18.SiwalBari North

19.Siwalbari South

20.Kalipahadi East