Para observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
By population, Para ranks #185 of 264 villages in Kadwa mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Para is a village of 302 people in 70 households (Census 2011) in Kadwa block, Katihar district, Bihar, the 185th-largest of 264 villages in Kadwa block. Literacy is 44%, 4 points above the block average of 40% and the sex ratio is 819 women per 1,000 men. It lies 111 km from the Katihar district centre, 14 km from Sangram, the nearest town, 14 km from Raiganj railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 855105, served by Durgaganj post office; the LGD village code is 224578. The nearest hospital or health centre is State Ayurvedic Dispensary, Shurun, 2 km away. The village votes in Purnia assembly constituency, represented by MLA Vijay Kumar Khemka. The population is estimated at 3,487 in 2026, up 1055% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Dhaprasia →
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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