Cities, towns and locations in the Deoghar, Dumka and Jamtara districts in Santhal Pargana Division M: Municipality, CT: census town, R: Rural/ Urban centre, D: Dam, Owing to space constraints in the small map, the actual locations in a larger map may vary slightly
Overview
The map shows a large area, which is a plateau with low hills, except in the eastern portion where the Rajmahal hills intrude into this area and the Ramgarh hills are there. The south-western portion is just a rolling upland. The entire area is overwhelmingly rural with only small pockets of urbanisation.[1]
Note: The full screen map is interesting. All places marked on the map are linked in the full screen map and one can easily move on to another page of his/her choice. Enlarge the full screen map to see what else is there – one gets railway connections, many more road connections and so on.
Area
Pathria has an area of 158 hectares (390 acres).[2]
In the map of Devipur CD block in the District Census Handbook, Deoghar, Devipur is shown as being part of Pathria mouza (MDDS PLCN - 212).[3]
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Pathria had a total population of 199, of which 108 (54%) were males and 91 (46%) were females. Population in the age range 0–6 years was 28. The total number of literate persons in Pathria was 171 (69.59% of the population over 6 years).[2]
Headquarters of Devipur CD block is at Devipur village.[5]
Education
Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya, Devipur, is a Hindi-medium girls only institution established in 2005. It has facilities for teaching from class VI to class XII.[6]
The English-medium DAV Public School at Kendua was established in 2013 and as of 2020 is functioning from class I to class VIII.[7]
Healthcare
The prestigious AIIMs, Deoghar, has been set up at Devipur.[8][9][10]
