Lead story
28
September 2026
newsSTATE
Bihar urges Centre to raise paddy procurement target to 50 lakh MT
Reported by timesofindia.indiatimes.com.
By Resident0 likes0 comments
Represented by
Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Malia is a village in Chanan mandal, Lakhisarai district, Bihar with a population of 2,480 across 417 households. The literacy rate is 40.1%, and the village is located at 24.887°N, 87.782°E with PIN code 811311.
DP
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
DABLU PASWAN
Contact: 96****2869
Spotted a stale sarpanch record? Sign in and a verified resident of Malia can update it.
- LGD code
- 243699
- Pincode
- 811311
- Post office
- Lakhisarai
- Population
- 2,480
- Households
- 417
- Literacy rate
- 40.1%
- Sex ratio
- 911 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 734
- Distance to district centre
- 190 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 148 km
- Distance to Patna
- 277 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 264 km
- Nearest railway station
- Barharwa Junction · 3 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Dr. K.D. Murmu Clinic · 4 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Malia compares
By population, Malia ranks #14 of 68 villages in Chanan* mandal.
Literacy rate
%
40.1%
−4.3% vs mandal average
Malia40.1%
Chanan* mandal44.4%
Lakhisarai district50.7%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
911
−7 vs mandal average
Malia911
Chanan* mandal918
Household size
people per home
5.9
−0.1 vs mandal average
Malia5.9
Chanan* mandal6.0
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Malia at a glance
Malia is a village of 2,480 people in 417 households (Census 2011) in Chanan* block, Lakhisarai district, Bihar, the 14th-largest of 68 villages in Chanan* block. Literacy is 40%, 4 points below the block average of 44% and the sex ratio is 911 women per 1,000 men. It lies 190 km from the Lakhisarai district centre, 10 km from Sarfarazganj, the nearest town, 3 km from Barharwa Junction railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 811311, served by Lakhisarai post office; the LGD village code is 243699. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dr. K.D. Murmu Clinic, 4 km away. The sarpanch is DABLU PASWAN, and the village votes in Simri Bakhtiarpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Sanjay Kumar Singh. The population is estimated at 2,924 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Malia →
Nearby villages compared
Compare side by side →Complete this village · 5/7
Add what you know →- Sarpanch name
- Panchayat contact
- 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 · Malia
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- No
- Electricity for farms
- No
- Power hours (summer)
- 0
- Power hours (winter)
- 0
- Primary school
- 2
- 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
- 0
- Post office
- Yes
- 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
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- LAKHISARAI
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 25
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 25
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 4
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- Maliya
- Total area (ha)
- 306
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 145.58
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Malia
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Malia
- LGD code
- 243699
- Pincode
- 811311
- Post office
- Lakhisarai
- Population (Census 2011)
- 2,480
- Population (projected 2026)
- 2,924
- Households
- 417
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 911
- Literacy rate
- 40.1%
- Coordinates
- 24.88705°N, 87.78196°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Khagaria
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Simri Bakhtiarpur
- Member of Parliament
- Rajesh Verma
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Sanjay Kumar Singh
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- DABLU PASWAN
- Block / Mandal
- Chanan*
Getting there
How to reach Malia
Distance to cities · straight line
- Patna277 kmcapital
- Kolkata264 km
- Delhi1128 km
- Hyderabad1274 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationBarharwa Junction3 km
- Hospital / PHCDr. K.D. Murmu Clinic4 km
- Petrol pumpIndian Oil35 km
- CollegeD.N.C. College38 km
- Police stationKaliachak Police Station24 km
Same pincode
Villages sharing pincode 811311
- SangrampurChanan* mandal9,143 pop
- NandnawanRamgarh Chowk mandal8,415 pop
- KhagaurLakhisarai mandal8,334 pop
- BalgudarLakhisarai mandal7,326 pop
- Garhi BishanpurLakhisarai mandal7,212 pop
- DhiraHalsi mandal6,637 pop
- AmaharaLakhisarai mandal6,528 pop
- HalsiHalsi mandal6,334 pop
- TetarhatRamgarh Chowk mandal6,265 pop
Same name, different place
Other villages named Malia
Looking for a different Malia? 4 other villages share this name across India. All villages named Malia →
Villages near Malia
Other villages in Chanan* mandal
View all 60+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-09-23
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)