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By population, Rampur Pagra ranks #42 of 47 villages in Dalsinghsarai mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Rampur Pagra is a village of 277 people in 64 households (Census 2011) in Dalsinghsarai block, Samastipur district, Bihar, the 42nd-largest of 47 villages in Dalsinghsarai block. Literacy is 59%, 8 points above the block average of 51% and the sex ratio is 731 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 848114, served by Dalsinghsarai post office; the LGD village code is 237022. The sarpanch is RAM NOMI KUMARI, and the village votes in Kasba assembly constituency, represented by MLA Nitesh Kumar Singh. The population is estimated at 327 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Pagra →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rampur Pagra · this village | 277 | 59% | — |
| Pagra · Dalsinghsarai | 8,460 | 48% | — |
| Shahpur Pagra · Dalsinghsarai | 1,989 | 38% | — |
| Chak Murtaza · Dalsinghsarai | 1,055 | 53% | — |
| Umar Chak · Dalsinghsarai | 133 | 58% | — |
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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