Pastia observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
By population, Pastia ranks #46 of 234 villages in Azamnagar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Pastia is a village of 2,213 people in 498 households (Census 2011) in Azamnagar block, Katihar district, Bihar, the 46th-largest of 234 villages in Azamnagar block. Literacy is 41%, 3 points above the block average of 38% and the sex ratio is 890 women per 1,000 men. It lies 88 km from the Katihar district centre, 4 km from Kusaha, the nearest town, 3 km from Bhawanipur Bihar railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 855113, served by Salmari post office; the LGD village code is 225142. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Salmari, 6 km away. The village votes in Katihar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Tarkishore Prasad. The population is estimated at 2,609 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Baghaura →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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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