Padwa block
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| Country | File:Flag of India.svg India |
| State | File:Flag of India.svg Jharkhand |
| District | Palamu |
| Block | Padwa |
| Government | |
| • MLA | Radha Krishna Kishore Bharatiya Janata Party |
| Population (2001) | |
• Total | 46,957 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Magahi, Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 822123 |
Padwa or Pandwa is one of the administrative community development block of Palamu district, Jharkhand state, India. The Pandwa block has 8,985 households with aggregate population of 46,957. The block has 8 panchayats and about 34 villages.
Pandwa is a part of Chhatarpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency).
Languages
[edit | edit source]Languages spoken there include Asuri, an Austroasiatic language spoken by approximately 17,000 in India, largely in the southern part of Palamu;[1] and Bhojpuri, a tongue in the Bihari language group with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in both the Devanagari and Kaithi scripts.[2]