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By population, Jalalpur ranks #123 of 191 villages in Kochas mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Jalalpur is a village of 289 people in 41 households (Census 2011) in Kochas block, Rohtas district, Bihar, the 123rd-largest of 191 villages in Kochas block. Literacy is 60%, 2 points below the block average of 62% and the sex ratio is 841 women per 1,000 men. It lies 78 km from the Rohtas district centre, 13 km from Sisai, the nearest town, 7 km from Kopa Samhota railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 821107, served by Kargahar post office; the LGD village code is 250709. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dr. Munna Kumar, <1 km away. The sarpanch is ANVIYA KHATUN, and the village votes in Bikram assembly constituency, represented by MLA Siddharth Saurav. The population is estimated at 341 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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