Patan block
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Patan | |
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Block | |
  Patan Location in jharkhand, India | |
| Coordinates: 24°12′N 84°10′E / 24.20°N 84.17°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Jharkhand |
| District | Palamu |
| Block | Patan |
| Government | |
| • Zila Parishad Member | Jai shankar Kumar Singh -Sangram Singh |
| Elevation | 216 m (709 ft) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 146,139 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Magahi, Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 822123 |
| Website | palamu |
Patan is one of the administrative blocks/Tehsil/ Taluka of Palamu district, Jharkhand state, India. According to census (2001), the block has 25,186 households with aggregate population of 146,139. The block has 186 villages.
History
[edit]Patan a Taluka/Block, close to Medininager Palamu, is located 25 km from Medininagar (Daltonganj). Patan is a part of Chhatarpur (Jharkhand Assembly constituency). It is well connected by road via two road. Both Road connects to NH-139.
Old Patan Road is through patan mod Via Palhe and Main road passes through Bairiya chowk via Jonr. Patan surrounded on every side by mountains is a small beautiful town. It's well covered by Vodafone, Airtel, Uninor, Reliance, BSNL, Aircel, Idea, Airtel 3G, like cellular networks. ATM also available here for SBI near Patan Bazar.
Languages
[edit]Languages spoken here 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]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ M. Paul Lewis, ed. (2009). "Asuri: A language of India". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
- ^ M. Paul Lewis, ed. (2009). "Bhojpuri: A language of India". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 30 September 2011.