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Adro is a village in Tundi mandal, Dhanbad district, Jharkhand, comprising 44 households with a total population of 204. The village has a literacy rate of 63.7% and is located at coordinates 24.229°N, 86.941°E.
By population, Adro ranks #144 of 211 villages in Tundi mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Adro is a village of 204 people in 44 households (Census 2011) in Tundi block, Dhanbad district, Jharkhand, the 144th-largest of 211 villages in Tundi block. Literacy is 64%, 15 points above the block average of 49% and the sex ratio is 855 women per 1,000 men. It lies 31 km from the Dhanbad district centre, 54 km from Barra, the nearest town, 21 km from Dhanpatdih railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 828142; the LGD village code is 361130. The nearest hospital or health centre is Palajori Hospital, 8 km away. The sarpanch is ANITA DEVI, and the village votes in Sarath assembly constituency, represented by MLA Uday Shankar Singh. The population is estimated at 241 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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