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Nepal floods: A Bihar village grapples with loss and crushing debt
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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Sihar is a village in Garhani mandal, Bhojpur district, Bihar with a population of 1,091 across 119 households. The village has a literacy rate of 49.2% and is situated at 25.402°N, 85.484°E with PIN code 802203.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
CHANDRASHEKHAR SINGH
Contact: 78****6148
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- LGD code
- 247536
- Pincode
- 802203
- Post office
- Garhani
- Population
- 1,091
- Households
- 119
- Literacy rate
- 49.2%
- Sex ratio
- 891 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 367
- Distance to district centre
- 25 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 5 km
- Distance to Patna
- 41 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 430 km
- Nearest railway station
- Kharuara Halt · 6 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Barah Primary Hospital · 1 km
जनगणना 2011 · तुलना में
सिहार की तुलना
By population, Sihar ranks #34 of 54 villages in Garhani mandal.
Literacy rate
%
49.2%
−5.8% vs mandal average
- Sihar
- 49.2%
- Garhani mandal
- 55.0%
- Bhojpur district
- 58.6%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
891
−28 vs mandal average
- Sihar
- 891
- Garhani mandal
- 919
Household size
people per home
9.2
+2.9 vs mandal average
- Sihar
- 9.2
- Garhani mandal
- 6.3
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
सिहार एक नज़र में
सिहार बिहार के भोजपुर जिले के गरहनि ब्लॉक में 1,091 लोगों 119 परिवारों में (जनगणना 2011) का एक गांव है, जो गरहनि ब्लॉक के 54 गांवों में 34वां सबसे बड़ा है। साक्षरता 49% है, जो ब्लॉक औसत 55% से 6 अंक कम है और लिंगानुपात प्रति 1,000 पुरुषों पर 891 महिलाएं। यह भोजपुर जिला मुख्यालय से 25 किमी, निकटतम कस्बे Barah से 2 किमी, Kharuara Halt रेलवे स्टेशन से 6 किमी स्थित है (सीधी रेखा दूरी)। पिनकोड 802203 है, Garhani डाकघर द्वारा सेवित; एलजीडी गांव कोड 247536 है। निकटतम अस्पताल या स्वास्थ्य केंद्र Barah Primary Hospital है, 1 किमी दूर। सरपंच CHANDRASHEKHAR SINGH हैं, और गांव Bakhtiarpur विधानसभा क्षेत्र में आता है, जिसके विधायक Arun Kumar S/O Satrughan Sao हैं। 2026 में अनुमानित जनसंख्या 1,286 है, 2011 जनगणना से 18% अधिक।
ग्राम पंचायत: Barap →
आसपास के गांवों की तुलना
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · सिहार
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- Yes
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- No
- Electricity for farms
- No
- Power hours (summer)
- 0
- Power hours (winter)
- 0
- Primary school
- 0
- Middle school
- 0
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 0
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- No
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- No
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- ARRAH
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 23
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 23
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 2
- All-weather road
- No
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- Barap
- Total area (ha)
- 201
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 160
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · सिहार
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
मुख्य तथ्य — सिहार
- LGD code
- 247536
- Pincode
- 802203
- Post office
- Garhani
- Population (Census 2011)
- 1,091
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,286
- Households
- 119
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 891
- Literacy rate
- 49.2%
- Coordinates
- 25.40200°N, 85.48420°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Patna Sahib
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Bakhtiarpur
- Member of Parliament
- Ravi Shankar Prasad
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Arun Kumar S/O Satrughan Sao
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- CHANDRASHEKHAR SINGH
- Block / Mandal
- Garhani
पहुंचने का रास्ता
सिहार कैसे पहुंचें
शहरों से दूरी · सीधी रेखा
- Patna41 kmcapital
- Kolkata430 km
- Delhi894 km
- Hyderabad1148 km
प्रकार अनुसार निकटतम · क्षेत्र में कहीं भी
- Railway stationKharuara Halt6 km
- Bus stopNCC More bus stop22 km
- Hospital / PHCBarah Primary Hospital1 km
- ATM / bankState Bank of India6 km
- Petrol pumpRaghuvansi Petrol Pump6 km
- CollegeRam Babu High school22 km
- Police stationHarnaut Police Station6 km
पूजा स्थल · 5 किमी के भीतर
Temples & shrines near Sihar
2 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
शिक्षा · 5 किमी के भीतर
Schools & colleges near Sihar
1 mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors, nearest first. Government school lists (UDISE) will replace this when loaded.
- 🏫Barah Middle SchoolSchool1.8 km ↗
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गरहनि मंडल के अन्य गांव
View all 57+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-09-23
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)