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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Dharhara is a village in Mohanpur mandal, Gaya district, Bihar, with a population of 3,138 across 466 households. The village has a literacy rate of 49.8% and is located at coordinates 25.259°N, 86.410°E with PIN code 824232.
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- LGD code
- 257098
- Pincode
- 824232
- Post office
- Fatehpur (Gaya)
- Population
- 3,138
- Households
- 466
- Literacy rate
- 49.8%
- Sex ratio
- 955 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 1,029
- Distance to district centre
- 58 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 72 km
- Distance to Patna
- 133 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 359 km
- Nearest railway station
- Dharhara · <1 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Dharhara · <1 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Dharhara compares
By population, Dharhara ranks #9 of 231 villages in Mohanpur mandal.
Literacy rate
%
49.8%
+4.1% vs mandal average
- Dharhara
- 49.8%
- Mohanpur mandal
- 45.7%
- Gaya district
- 52.3%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
955
−30 vs mandal average
- Dharhara
- 955
- Mohanpur mandal
- 985
Household size
people per home
6.7
Same as the mandal average
- Dharhara
- 6.7
- Mohanpur mandal
- 6.7
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Dharhara at a glance
Dharhara is a village of 3,138 people in 466 households (Census 2011) in Mohanpur block, Gaya district, Bihar, the 9th-largest of 231 villages in Mohanpur block. Literacy is 50%, 4 points above the block average of 46% and the sex ratio is 955 women per 1,000 men. It lies 58 km from the Gaya district centre, 10 km from Jamalpur, the nearest town, under 1 km from Dharhara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 824232, served by Fatehpur (Gaya) post office; the LGD village code is 257098. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dharhara, <1 km away. The village votes in Mokama assembly constituency, represented by MLA Anant Kumar Singh. The population is estimated at 3,700 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Dharhara
- 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)
- 5
- Power hours (winter)
- 6
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 1
- 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
- 1
- 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
- Yes
- Weekly haat
- Yes
- Nearest statutory town
- BODHGAYA
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 20
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 38
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 3
- All-weather road
- No
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- DHARAHARA
- Total area (ha)
- 197
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 86.33
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Dharhara
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Dharhara
- LGD code
- 257098
- Pincode
- 824232
- Post office
- Fatehpur (Gaya)
- Population (Census 2011)
- 3,138
- Population (projected 2026)
- 3,700
- Households
- 466
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 955
- Literacy rate
- 49.8%
- Coordinates
- 25.25859°N, 86.41007°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Munger
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Mokama
- Member of Parliament
- Rajiv Ranjan Singh
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Anant Kumar Singh
- Block / Mandal
- Mohanpur
Getting there
How to reach Dharhara
Distance to cities · straight line
- Patna133 kmcapital
- Kolkata359 km
- Delhi985 km
- Hyderabad1199 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationDharhara<1 km
- Hospital / PHCDharhara<1 km
- ATM / bankICICI Bank10 km
- CollegeKDS colleage29 km
- Police stationFaridpur Police Station9 km
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-24
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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