Livelihood {{Pie chart In Jama CD block in 2011, amongst the class of total workers, cultivators numbered 24,748 and formed 35.80%, agricultural labourers numbered 31,973 and formed 46.26%, household industry workers numbered 2,806 and formed 4.06% and other workers numbered 9,596 and formed 13.88%. Total workers numbered 69,123 and formed 50.10% of the total population. Non-workers numbered 68,840 and formed 49.90% of total population. Note: In the census records a person is considered a cultivator, if the person is engaged in cultivation/ supervision of land owned. When a person who works on another person's land for wages in cash or kind or share, is regarded as an agricultural labourer. Household industry is defined as an industry conducted by one or more members of the family within the household or village, and one that does not qualify for registration as a factory under the Factories Act. Other workers are persons engaged in some economic activity other than cultivators, agricultural labourers and household workers. It includes factory, mining, plantation, transport and office workers, those engaged in business and commerce, teachers and entertainment artistes.
Infrastructure There are 311 inhabited villages in Jama. In 2011, 128 villages had power supply. 25 villages had tap water (treated/ untreated), 309 villages had well water (covered/ uncovered), 310 villages had hand pumps, and all villages had drinking water facility. 27 villages had post offices, 12 villages had sub post offices, 16 villages had telephones (land lines), 41 villages had public call offices and 118 villages had mobile phone coverage. 305 villages had pucca (paved) village roads, 15 villages had bus service (public/ private), 3 villages had railway stations, 15 villages had autos/ modified autos, and 140 villages had tractors. 11 villages had bank branches, 8 villages had agricultural credit societies, 2 villages had cinema/ video halls, 5 villages had public library and public reading rooms. 71 villages had
public distribution system, 13 villages had weekly haat (market) and 98 villages had
assembly polling stations.
Agriculture Dumka district is a rural dominated area with a large population residing in the villages. "Agriculture practices are the main source of income for the rural people of the district." It is a hilly district receiving considerably high rainfall (1088mm to 1244mm annual average), resulting in a considerable vegetative cover. Ruthless exploitation of forests has reduced them to bushes without any big trees. Only 6.42% of the agricultural lands are irrigated by wells and tanks. Major crops in the district are paddy, maize and wheat. The availability of land has been a major problem. "The Santals have played an important part in the reclamation of land." The District Gazetteer of the Santal Parganas (1938) writes, "In the olden areas, from which he (the Santal) moved on at an earlier date, he seems to have done the first clearing of the jungle, and the first rough sloping of shapes and levels. The more civilised Bengali, Bihari and upcountry immigrant came at his heels, pushed him off the land by force, cajolery, trickery, seized upon his improvements by the application of larger capital or steadier labour developed the embryo bandhs and tanks into works of considerable size," In Jama CD block, 50.29% of the total area was cultivable area and 32.21% of the cultivated area was irrigated area.
Backward Regions Grant Fund Dumka district is listed as a backward region and receives financial support from the
Backward Regions Grant Fund. The fund created by the Government of India is designed to redress regional imbalances in development. As of 2012, 272 districts across the country were listed under this scheme. The list includes 21 districts of Jharkhand. ==Transport==