Bara is a village in Arrah mandal, Bhojpur district, Bihar comprising 1,019 people across 137 households. The village has a literacy rate of 64.9% and is located at coordinates 25.512°N, 83.855°E with PIN code 802156.
By population, Bara ranks #72 of 115 villages in Arrah mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bara is a village of 1,019 people in 137 households (Census 2011) in Arrah block, Bhojpur district, Bihar, the 72nd-largest of 115 villages in Arrah block. Literacy is 65%, 7 points above the block average of 58% and the sex ratio is 926 women per 1,000 men. It lies 179 km from the Bhojpur district centre, 0 km from Bara, the nearest town, 2 km from Barakalan railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 802156, served by Dhamar post office; the LGD village code is 246811. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Buxar, 11 km away. The sarpanch is Mukesh Kumar Prasad, and the village votes in Warisnagar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Manjarik Mrinal. The population is estimated at 6,670 in 2026, up 555% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Ganghar →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
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