Panki block

History

Panki a Taluka/Block, close to Medininager Palamu, is located 44 km from Medininagar (Daltonganj). Panki is a part of Panki (Vidhan Sabha constituency). Patan is located 44 km east of daltonganj. It is well connected by road via three road. It is a junction point for Chatra, Jharkhand, Balumath (community development block) and Medininagar (Daltonganj). This is one of the developing taluka of palamu.

It's well covered by Vodafone, Airtel, Uninor, Reliance, BSNL, Aircel, Idea, Airtel 3G, like cellular networks. ATM also available here for SBI near Panki Bazar.

Villages

Panki mandal/Block consists of 140 villages. The following are the list of villages in the Block:

Languages

Languages spoken here include Asuri, an Austroasiatic language spoken by approximately 17 000 in India, largely in the southern part of Palamu; and Bhojpuri, a tongue in the Bihari language group with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in both the Devanagari and Kaithi scripts.

Education

Market

A small market called as Panki bazar is situated in middle of the block which 2 km away from Panki block administrative building. Common shops like kirana, general store, saloon, cloth shop, fashion stores, jewelry stores,medicine stores etc. exists here in huge number.

Police Station

A police station is situated at the heart of panki block. This police station is one of the important police station in palamu district.

Bank

State bank of Panki(SBIN0003551) is situated at the center of Panki with 24 hr ATM facility.

Post Office

There is a post office nearby panki Market, where speed post parcel and other postal services over here.