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Locations · Jharkhand

From Ranchi's wards to Santhal Pargana villages

Bharat Survey is a survey company in Jharkhand for departments, CSR teams in the mining belt, researchers and campaign groups who need household data from forest villages as well as towns. We pilot Hindi questionnaires with speakers of Sadri, Santhali, Kurukh or Mundari, recruit enumerators for each project, and GPS-stamp every interview on an offline Android app.

  • Offline capture in forest and hill blocks
  • Tribal-language wording tested in pilots
  • GPS and time on every record
Baseline · 3 blocks · household panelUpdated 12s ago · sample
3,000
Target households
2,184
Visits
1,962
Completed
1,871
Accepted
Daily accepted interviewsLast 12 days
Home #17 · Intro & consent

Hello, I am Ram Kumar. This survey is run by Sample Organisation. Purpose: to learn about amenities in your area. It is voluntary, and you can say no at any time.

Consent v2 · 09:44
Agreed — start surveyDeclined
Location evidence
Survey #BS-0412
  • In areaInside approx. boundary
  • Accuracy±12 m
  • Time09:42 · fresh fix
  • Mock GPSNot detected
  • Interview length11 min
Added to accepted count
24 districts5 divisions81 Vidhan Sabha seats14 Lok Sabha seatsFifth Schedule areasOffline Android appConsent on the phone

Each division needs a different mix of language, transport and timing.

South Chotanagpur

Ranchi, Gumla, Simdega

Capital city wards plus Mundari- and Kurukh-speaking villages; many Christian and Sarna households, so we keep religion questions optional.
North Chotanagpur

Hazaribagh, Dhanbad, Bokaro

Coal towns and steel townships beside farming villages; migrant worker colonies need their own quota.
Kolhan

East and West Singhbhum

Jamshedpur's industrial belt and iron-ore forests of West Singhbhum, where some blocks need security-aware planning.
Palamu

Palamu, Garhwa, Latehar

Drought-prone, sparsely connected blocks; long travel time per village drives the budget.
Santhal Pargana

Dumka, Deoghar, Sahibganj

Santhali and Bangla wording checks; Deoghar's Shravani Mela month is avoided for household work.

Capital
Ranchi
Districts
24
Divisions
5
North and South Chotanagpur, Kolhan, Palamu, Santhal Pargana
Reserved assembly seats
28 ST, 9 SC
Lok Sabha seats
14
Vidhan Sabha seats
81
Unicameral; elected November 2024
Official language
Hindi
Several second official languages, including Urdu, Bangla, Odia, Santhali, Mundari, Kurukh and Nagpuri
Scheduled Areas
Fifth Schedule
Large parts of the state are notified Scheduled Areas

Sources: Chief Electoral Officer, Jharkhand · Jharkhand government portal · Local Government Directory · The Caravan: 2024 Jharkhand election explained (reserved seats) · Testbook: official languages of Jharkhand (secondary)

Neutral research across 81 segments, 28 of which are reserved for Scheduled Tribes.

Reserved and general segments

As an assembly election survey agency Jharkhand groups can brief, we sample ST-reserved segments with enumerators who speak the local tribal language, and report them apart from urban general seats.
Constituency 172 · Survey round 2Updated 12s ago · sample
3,000
Target homes
2,184
Visits
1,962
Completed
1,871
Accepted
Daily accepted surveysLast 12 days

14 seats

Lok Sabha

A Lok Sabha election survey agency in Jharkhand has to span seats such as Rajmahal or Chatra that cross forest and town; we weight by assembly segment.

Retail audit · Wave 3 · 1,200 outletsUpdated 12s ago · sample
3,000
Target outlets
2,184
Visited
1,962
Audited
1,871
Accepted
Daily accepted auditsLast 12 days
81 seats

Vidhan Sabha

As a Vidhan Sabha election survey agency in Jharkhand we run mid-term issue trackers on land, water and jobs, kept short for farm seasons.

Constituency 172 · Survey round 2Updated 12s ago · sample
3,000
Target homes
2,184
Visits
1,962
Completed
1,871
Accepted
Daily accepted surveysLast 12 days
Corporations

Nagar Nigam

A Nagar Nigam election survey agency in Jharkhand works ward by ward in corporations such as Ranchi, Dhanbad and Deoghar, where mining migration changes household makeup.

Location evidence
Survey #BS-0412
  • In areaInside approx. boundary
  • Accuracy±12 m
  • Time09:42 · fresh fix
  • Mock GPSNot detected
  • Interview length11 min
Added to accepted count
Villages

Panchayats

A Panchayat election survey agency in Jharkhand must respect gram sabha customs in Scheduled Areas and brief enumerators before entering villages.

Home #17 · Intro & consent

Hello, I am Ram Kumar. This survey is run by Sample Organisation. Purpose: to learn about amenities in your area. It is voluntary, and you can say no at any time.

Consent v2 · 09:44
Agreed — start surveyDeclined

Our view

Forest rights and livelihoods

Household studies on forest produce, land titles and seasonal migration, with GPS points in forest villages.

Schools and nutrition

Facility checks at schools and anganwadi centres in blocks far from district roads.

Health reach

Distance and time to care measured from the household, not from the block office.

Industrial towns

Urban
Jamshedpur, Bokaro and Dhanbad households sampled by township and non-township area, since incomes and shopping differ sharply.

Haat-based rural markets

Rural
Weekly haat intercepts capture rural buyers who rarely visit town shops.

Many CSR programmes run around mines and plants in Dhanbad, Bokaro, Ramgarh and the Singhbhum districts. Displacement and dust are sensitive topics, so we separate project-affected villages from comparison villages and keep enumerators independent of the company's local staff.

Before

Evaluation from the block office

  • Staff assess their own delivery
  • Remote villages skipped
  • No proof of visit
With Bharat Survey

Bharat Survey evaluation

  • Enumerators report to our supervisors
  • Remote strata planned and costed
  • GPS and back-checks on records

Before fieldwork

  • Language per block (Santhali, Kurukh, Mundari, Nagpuri)
  • Gram sabha or village head briefing
  • Security advisories in some forest blocks

Avoid

  • Paddy transplanting peak in July
  • Monsoon river crossings
  • Major festival weeks such as Sarhul and Karma

Migration and livelihoods

Tracing households with members working outside the state, with consent-first interviewing.

Women's collectives

Self-help group studies in tribal blocks, run by women enumerators where needed.

Not the right fit if

  • Anyone wanting voter-list data or a guaranteed result
  • Studies that must enter security-restricted areas without clearance
  • Buyers needing an iOS app today
FAQ

Straight answers to the questions people ask most about this topic.

Which languages do you use for Jharkhand surveys?

Hindi in Devanagari is the base. We pilot wording with speakers of Nagpuri (Sadri), Santhali, Kurukh or Mundari depending on the district, and use Bangla or Odia along the border districts. Enumerators who speak the local language handle tribal-majority villages.

Do you work in Scheduled Areas?

Yes, with extra preparation. Large parts of Jharkhand are Fifth Schedule areas, so we brief the gram sabha or traditional village head where appropriate, record consent on the phone, and avoid questions that feel like an official enquiry into land.

Do you have an office in Jharkhand?

We do not claim a local office. For each project we recruit and train enumerators, often from the sampled blocks, supervise them, and verify records through GPS, time stamps and back-check visits before data is accepted.

How do you reach villages with no mobile signal?

The Android app saves each interview with GPS and time on the phone and syncs when the enumerator reaches coverage. Forest and hill blocks in Latehar, Gumla or West Singhbhum can be surveyed for days offline.

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