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Rohtas block
Map showing divisions of Rohtas block
Country	India
State	Bihar
District	Rohtas
Headquarters	Akbarpur
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	86,049
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (IST)

Rohtas is acommunity development block inRohtas district ofBihar,India. The block headquarters is in the village ofAkbarpur, 5 km east of the historicRohtas Fort. As of 2011, the population of Rohtas block was 86,049.^[1]

The eponymous fortress ofRohtas was an important centre underSher Shah Suri and during theMughal period.^[1]

The village ofAkbarpur, in the foothills near Rohtasgarh, formed apargana during the Mughal period. The tomb ofMalik Wishal Khan, thedaroga of Rohtasgarh underShah Jahan, is located here.^[1]

Rohtas block is geographically diverse, with parts of it lying on theSasaram Plain and other parts on theRohtas Plateau, a hilly outcrop of theVindhya Range.^[1]

In 2011, the population of Rohtas block was 86,049, of which 4,504 lived in thecensus town ofTelkap and 81,545 in rural areas. The overallsex ratio of the block was 944 females to every 1000 males, which was the highest in the district. The sex ratio was higher in rural areas (947) than in urban areas (904); it was also higher in the 0-6 age group than in the general population. In the 0-6 age group, the sex ratio was 957 (960 in rural areas, and 910 in urban areas), which was the second-highest in the district behindDawath. (The rural 0-6 sex ratio, however, exceeded Dawath's, making it the highest in the district.)^[1]

Members ofscheduled castes numbered 15,794 in Rohtas block, representing 18.35% of the population; this proportion was almost identical to the district average of 18.57%. Members ofscheduled tribes numbered 6,885, representing 8% of the population, which was much higher than the district average of 1.07%. Additionally, the town of Telkap, in Rohtas block, had the highest proportion of scheduled tribes membership among urban areas in the district of Rohtas (6.86%, compared to the average of 0.75%).^[1]

Literacy in Rohtas block was somewhat below the district average: 66.41% of people in the block could read and write, compared with 73.37% in the district as a whole. Literacy was higher in men than in women; 76.24% of men but only 55.96% of women could read and write. The corresponding gender gap in literacy was 20.28%, which was marginally above the district average of 19.91%.^[1]

A slight majority of the workforce of Rohtas block was employed inagriculture in 2011, with 12.13% being cultivators who owned or leased their own land and 38.77% being agricultural labourers who worked someone else's land for money. Another 5.77% of the workforce was employed in household industries, and the remaining 43.33% were employed in other forms of work.^[1]

Near the village ofBanjari there are significantlimestone deposits which are mined for use in the production ofcement.^[1]

Of the total land area in Rohtas block, 31.57% is cultivable land; of the cultivable land, 54.92% wasirrigated in 2011.^[1]

Rohtas block contains 37 villages, of which 33 are inhabited and 4 are uninhabited.^[1]

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