Patan
Block
Patan Location in jharkhand, India
Coordinates: 24°12′N 84°10′E / 24.20°N 84.17°E / 24.20; 84.17
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.nic.in/patan.html

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

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

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]