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Sirsi is a village in Bakhtiarpur mandal, Patna district, Bihar, with a population of 2,369 across 337 households. The village has a literacy rate of 58.6%.
By population, Sirsi ranks #28 of 58 villages in Bakhtiarpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sirsi is a village of 2,369 people in 337 households (Census 2011) in Bakhtiarpur block, Patna district, Bihar, the 28th-largest of 58 villages in Bakhtiarpur block. Literacy is 59%, 12 points above the block average of 46% and the sex ratio is 886 women per 1,000 men. It lies 47 km from the Patna district centre, 2 km from Barah, the nearest town, 6 km from Kharuara Halt railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 803212, served by Bakhtiyarpur post office; the LGD village code is 246297. The nearest hospital or health centre is Barah Primary Hospital, 1 km away. The village votes in Ujiarpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Alok Kumar Mehta. The population is estimated at 2,793 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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