Lead story
24
September 2026
newsSTATE
Monsoon retreat begins: Flood concerns persist in Bihar amid fresh rain
Reported by WION.
By Resident0 likes0 comments
Represented by
Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Banahi is a village in Amas mandal, Gaya district, Bihar. It has a population of 865 across 130 households, with a literacy rate of 36.3%. The village is identified by PIN code 824219.
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Information not yet available
No sarpanch on record yet. Sign in to add it — verified residents publish it directly, others need one community vouch.
- LGD code
- 255748
- Pincode
- 824219
- Post office
- Amas
- Population
- 865
- Households
- 130
- Literacy rate
- 36.3%
- Sex ratio
- 1035 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 463
- Distance to district centre
- 157 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 182 km
- Distance to Patna
- 75 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 522 km
- Nearest railway station
- Banahi · <1 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Government Hospital, Shahpur · 4 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Banahi compares
By population, Banahi ranks #47 of 102 villages in Amas mandal.
Literacy rate
%
36.3%
−16.5% vs mandal average
- Banahi
- 36.3%
- Amas mandal
- 52.8%
- Gaya district
- 52.3%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,035
+92 vs mandal average
- Banahi
- 1,035
- Amas mandal
- 943
Household size
people per home
6.7
+0.4 vs mandal average
- Banahi
- 6.7
- Amas mandal
- 6.3
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Banahi at a glance
Banahi is a village of 865 people in 130 households (Census 2011) in Amas block, Gaya district, Bihar, the 47th-largest of 102 villages in Amas block. Literacy is 36%, 17 points below the block average of 53% and the sex ratio is 1,035 women per 1,000 men. It lies 157 km from the Gaya district centre, 8 km from Danwan, the nearest town, under 1 km from Banahi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 824219, served by Amas post office; the LGD village code is 255748. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Shahpur, 4 km away. The village votes in Bakhri assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sanjay Kumar. The population is estimated at 1,020 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kalwan →
Nearby villages compared
Compare side by side →Complete this village · 3/7
Add what you know →- Sarpanch nameWho leads the gram panchayat today
- Panchayat contactA number residents can call
- Pincode
- About the village
- A photoTemple, school, fields — anything from the village
- A festival or jatara
- A notable personTeacher, soldier, sportsperson, entrepreneur
Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Banahi
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 4
- Power hours (winter)
- 5
- Primary school
- 1
- 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
- Yes
- Private bus service
- Yes
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- SHERGHATI
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 4
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 50
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 15
- All-weather road
- No
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- Kalwan
- Total area (ha)
- 128
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 115.7
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Banahi
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Banahi
- LGD code
- 255748
- Pincode
- 824219
- Post office
- Amas
- Population (Census 2011)
- 865
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,020
- Households
- 130
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1035
- Literacy rate
- 36.3%
- Coordinates
- 25.55996°N, 84.39154°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Begusarai
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Bakhri
- Member of Parliament
- Giriraj Singh
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Sanjay Kumar
- Block / Mandal
- Amas
Getting there
How to reach Banahi
Distance to cities · straight line
- Patna75 kmcapital
- Kolkata522 km
- Delhi788 km
- Hyderabad1095 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationBanahi<1 km
- Hospital / PHCGovernment Hospital, Shahpur4 km
- ATM / bankstate bank of india bikramganj39 km
- CollegeDAV public school, tenduni chowk ,ara road39 km
- Police stationPOLICE LINE CHHAPRA GROUND44 km
Same pincode
Villages sharing pincode 824219
Same name, different place
Other villages named Banahi
Looking for a different Banahi? 7 other villages share this name across India. All villages named Banahi →
Villages near Banahi
Other villages in Amas mandal
View all 60+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-09-23
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-24
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)