Deogharदेवघर
14.9 lakh people. Larger than Estonia, Mauritius, or Fiji. Governed as one cell of one state.
- Population
- 14,92,073 (14.9 lakh)
- Area
- 2,479 km²
- Headquarters
- Deoghar
₹1,530 cr
of bankable business potential identified by the government in Deoghar.
Source: NABARD PLP 2023-24
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NABARD's plan for Deoghar · PLP 2023-24
₹1,530 crof bankable credit potential identified by the government
Crop production, maintenance & marketing
₹442 cr
MSME
₹359 cr
Term loans for agriculture & allied activities
₹256 cr
Housing
₹149 cr
Deoghar's 2023-24 credit plan sees about ₹1,529.86 crore of lending potential. Farming and allied activities make up just over half of it — ₹798.32 crore (52%) — while small businesses (MSME) account for ₹359.36 crore (23%). The rest is housing (₹148.96 cr), education (₹104.12 cr) and other priority lending.
The biggest single opportunity is crop loans at ₹441.57 crore — this is largely a single-crop paddy district (also maize, wheat, finger millet, pulses and oilseeds), with vegetables like potato, okra, tomato and cauliflower grown in the Deoghar, Sarwan, Mohanpur and Devipur blocks. On the livestock side, dairy alone is worth ₹104.79 crore, followed by farm machinery (₹40.86 cr), horticulture and sericulture (₹20.83 cr), poultry (₹20.51 cr) and goat/pig rearing (₹18.62 cr). Food and agro-processing adds ₹17.21 crore, building on the district's ~165 small food-processing units. NABARD is backing 14 farmer producer groups and running watershed, tribal-development and women's SHG livelihood programmes; Deoghar's pilgrimage tourism is a growing activity.
The plan's own warnings: bank coverage is thin (about one branch per 10,750 people) and the credit-deposit ratio is only 32.85%, far below the 40% RBI norm — the district saves far more than it borrows. Loan recovery, especially on farm credit, is weak, and irrigation reaches just ~19% of cultivable land, keeping most farming rainfed and single-crop.
What the plan promotes
- Paddy is the main crop across all 10 blocks; also maize, wheat, madua (finger millet), pulses (gram, urad) and oilseeds (mustard, rai, til) grown on rainfed single-crop land
- Vegetables — especially potato, okra, tomato, cauliflower and pumpkin — cultivated in Deoghar, Sarwan, Mohanpur and Devipur blocks
- Dairy is the largest term-loan opportunity at ₹104.79 cr; milk production ~110 thousand MT/year, with poultry (₹20.51 cr) and goat/sheep/piggery (₹18.62 cr) as income and self-employment activities
- Horticulture push under the National Horticulture Mission (running in Deoghar since 2006) and Integrated Horticulture Development Mission — ~2,150 hectares of fruit orchards planted by the district horticulture office over the last 2 years
- NABARD is promoting 14 Farmer Producer Groups (FPOs) in the district and supporting JLG formation with Jharkhand State Rural Bank and Jharkhand State Cooperative Bank
- Developmental programmes underway: watershed & tribal development projects, SHG women's livelihood entrepreneurship (Sustainable Livelihood & Natural Resource Management), Micro Livelihood Development, and Rural Mart
Gaps the plan names
- Bank branch coverage is inadequate — 139 branches for the district means roughly one branch per ~10,750 people, and the role of the State Cooperative Bank and 194 PACS in farm lending is very limited
- Credit-deposit ratio is only 32.85%, well below the RBI's 40% norm — deposits of ₹8141.39 cr against advances of ₹2674.78 cr, so credit flow lags the district's deposit base
- Loan recovery — particularly on agriculture credit — is low, hurting the banking sector, the rural economy and overall development
- Rainfed single-crop farming dominates because irrigation is weak: only ~35.73 thousand ha (about 19% of cultivable area) is irrigated, with stony soil, small fragmented holdings and uneven terrain
- The PLP itself flags that accurate sector/sub-sector credit-flow data is hard to obtain and that some line departments lack the data needed to properly estimate potential
See the plan's recommendations
What the plan promotes
- Paddy is the main crop across all 10 blocks; also maize, wheat, madua (finger millet), pulses (gram, urad) and oilseeds (mustard, rai, til) grown on rainfed single-crop land
- Vegetables — especially potato, okra, tomato, cauliflower and pumpkin — cultivated in Deoghar, Sarwan, Mohanpur and Devipur blocks
- Dairy is the largest term-loan opportunity at ₹104.79 cr; milk production ~110 thousand MT/year, with poultry (₹20.51 cr) and goat/sheep/piggery (₹18.62 cr) as income and self-employment activities
- Horticulture push under the National Horticulture Mission (running in Deoghar since 2006) and Integrated Horticulture Development Mission — ~2,150 hectares of fruit orchards planted by the district horticulture office over the last 2 years
- NABARD is promoting 14 Farmer Producer Groups (FPOs) in the district and supporting JLG formation with Jharkhand State Rural Bank and Jharkhand State Cooperative Bank
- Developmental programmes underway: watershed & tribal development projects, SHG women's livelihood entrepreneurship (Sustainable Livelihood & Natural Resource Management), Micro Livelihood Development, and Rural Mart
Gaps the plan names
- Bank branch coverage is inadequate — 139 branches for the district means roughly one branch per ~10,750 people, and the role of the State Cooperative Bank and 194 PACS in farm lending is very limited
- Credit-deposit ratio is only 32.85%, well below the RBI's 40% norm — deposits of ₹8141.39 cr against advances of ₹2674.78 cr, so credit flow lags the district's deposit base
- Loan recovery — particularly on agriculture credit — is low, hurting the banking sector, the rural economy and overall development
- Rainfed single-crop farming dominates because irrigation is weak: only ~35.73 thousand ha (about 19% of cultivable area) is irrigated, with stony soil, small fragmented holdings and uneven terrain
- The PLP itself flags that accurate sector/sub-sector credit-flow data is hard to obtain and that some line departments lack the data needed to properly estimate potential
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About Deoghar
Deoghar district is one of the twenty-four districts of Jharkhand state in eastern India. Deoghar, the central city of the district, is also its administrative headquarters. This district is known for the Baidyanath Jyotirlinga shrine and is a part of the Santhal Pargana division. Deoghar is a Hindi word meaning abode ('ghar') of the Gods and Goddesses ('dev'). Deoghar is also known as "Baidyanath Dham", and "Baba Dham",.
Source: Wikipedia — Deoghar district
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