CHRIST THE KING CHURCH KHALARI

CHRIST THE KING CHURCH KHALARI

KHALARI (ARCHD. RANCHI)

Fr. Sunit Ku. Baxla Parish Priest & Manager, Adarsh Vidyalaya

Fr. Julianus Ekka Principal, Adarsh Vidyalaya High School

Christ the King Church

Khalari – 829 205

Ranchi Dist., Jharkhand

Adarsh Vidyalaya High School E-mail: [email protected]

St. Vincent Pallotti Boys’ Hostel

KHALARI:

Khalari mission was started in 1982 by the Archdiocese of Ranchi and handed over to the Pallottine Society in the year 1983. The Pallottines made their entry into the Chotanagpur missions at the invitation of Fr. De Meulder, a Belgian Jesuit missionary who had spent many years working in this area. In 1982, the Ursuline Sisters also came to Khalari and opened a dispensary. The road distance between Khalari to Ranchi Archdiocese and the capital city of Jharkhand is 61 km, while the aerial distance is 42 km.

Khalari has a population of about 30,000, many of whom are workers of the nearby cement factories and coal mines. There are farmers in Khalari area who heavily depend on the monsoon for the cultivation of the crops. People are poor because they are daily wage earners and farmers.

The whole of this area is notorious for its groups of dacoits who rob and kill at random with impunity. The rampart lawlessness in the whole State of Jharkhand and Bihar and the forest covered region in particular provide the ideal situation for such gangs.