Amwa Population - Palamu, Jharkhand

Amwa is a medium size village located in Patan Block of Palamu district, Jharkhand with total 125 families residing. The Amwa village has population of 708 of which 383 are males while 325 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Amwa village population of children with age 0-6 is 111 which makes up 15.68 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Amwa village is 849 which is lower than Jharkhand state average of 948. Child Sex Ratio for the Amwa as per census is 820, lower than Jharkhand average of 948.

Amwa village has higher literacy rate compared to Jharkhand. In 2011, literacy rate of Amwa village was 69.51 % compared to 66.41 % of Jharkhand. In Amwa Male literacy stands at 84.47 % while female literacy rate was 52.00 %.

As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Amwa village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Amwa village.

Amwa Data

Particulars	Total	Male	Female
Total No. of Houses	125	-	-
Population	708	383	325
Child (0-6)	111	61	50
Schedule Caste	374	193	181
Schedule Tribe	0	0	0
Literacy	69.51 %	84.47 %	52.00 %
Total Workers	372	193	179
Main Worker	14	-	-
Marginal Worker	358	180	178

Caste Factor

In Amwa village, most of the villagers are from Schedule Caste (SC). Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 52.82 % of total population in Amwa village. The village Amwa currently doesn’t have any Schedule Tribe (ST) population.

Work Profile

In Amwa village out of total population, 372 were engaged in work activities. 3.76 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 96.24 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 372 workers engaged in Main Work, 1 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 3 were Agricultural labourer.