Lead story
20
September 2026
newsSTATE
Bihar museum hosts ‘Malhar Utsav’, monsoon ragas enchant audience
Reported by The Times of India.
By Resident0 likes0 comments
Represented by
Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Harihans is a village in Hussainganj mandal, Siwan district, Bihar, with a population of 17,850 across 2,734 households. The village has a literacy rate of 55.3%.
RK
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
RAJIV KUMAR RAM
Contact: 99****5697
Spotted a stale sarpanch record? Sign in and a verified resident of Harihans can update it.
- LGD code
- 232014
- Pincode
- 841241
- Post office
- Pachrukhi
- Population
- 17,850
- Households
- 2,734
- Literacy rate
- 55.3%
- Sex ratio
- 946 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 4,610
- Distance to district centre
- 105 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 99 km
- Distance to Patna
- 99 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 568 km
- Nearest railway station
- Pachrukhi · 6 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Hussainganj Government Hospital · 3 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Harihans compares
By population, Harihans ranks #1 of 46 villages in Hussainganj mandal — the largest.
Literacy rate
%
55.3%
−1.9% vs mandal average
- Harihans
- 55.3%
- Hussainganj mandal
- 57.2%
- Siwan district
- 58.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
946
−19 vs mandal average
- Harihans
- 946
- Hussainganj mandal
- 965
Household size
people per home
6.5
Same as the mandal average
- Harihans
- 6.5
- Hussainganj mandal
- 6.5
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Harihans at a glance
Harihans is a village of 17,850 people in 2,734 households (Census 2011) in Hussainganj block, Siwan district, Bihar, the largest of 46 villages in Hussainganj block. Literacy is 55%, 2 points below the block average of 57% and the sex ratio is 946 women per 1,000 men. It lies 105 km from the Siwan district centre, 21 km from Barharia, the nearest town, 6 km from Pachrukhi railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 841241, served by Pachrukhi post office; the LGD village code is 232014. The nearest hospital or health centre is Hussainganj Government Hospital, 3 km away. The sarpanch is RAJIV KUMAR RAM, and the village votes in Kurhani assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kedar Prasad Gupta. The population is estimated at 21,045 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Paschimi Harihans →
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 · Harihans
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- Yes
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- No
- Power hours (summer)
- 4
- Power hours (winter)
- 5
- Primary school
- 3
- Middle school
- 3
- Secondary school
- 1
- Senior secondary
- 1
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 1
- Health sub-centre
- 1
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 1
- 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
- Yes
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- Yes
- Weekly haat
- Yes
- Nearest statutory town
- SIWAN
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 10
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 10
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 8
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- Purviharians
- Total area (ha)
- 728
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 293
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Harihans
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Harihans
- LGD code
- 232014
- Pincode
- 841241
- Post office
- Pachrukhi
- Population (Census 2011)
- 17,850
- Population (projected 2026)
- 21,045
- Households
- 2,734
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 946
- Literacy rate
- 55.3%
- Coordinates
- 26.14362°N, 84.35799°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Muzaffarpur
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Kurhani
- Member of Parliament
- Raj Bhushan Choudhary
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Kedar Prasad Gupta
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- RAJIV KUMAR RAM
- Block / Mandal
- Hussainganj
Getting there
How to reach Harihans
Distance to cities · straight line
- Patna99 kmcapital
- Kolkata568 km
- Delhi757 km
- Hyderabad1147 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationPachrukhi6 km
- Hospital / PHCHussainganj Government Hospital3 km
- ATM / bankCENTRAL BANK GRAHAK KENDRA15 km
- Petrol pumpMS Sheeba Petrolium24 km
- CollegeInter college, Sakarpura34 km
- Police stationBarharia Police Station22 km
Same pincode
Villages sharing pincode 841241
- BararamHussainganj mandal8,564 pop
- PachrukhiPachrukhi mandal7,970 pop
- ChanpHussainganj mandal7,848 pop
- Jasauli KharagPachrukhi mandal6,126 pop
- SarautiPachrukhi mandal3,972 pop
- SupauliPachrukhi mandal3,889 pop
- Jasauli PakauliPachrukhi mandal3,721 pop
- MakhnupurPachrukhi mandal3,515 pop
- MalupurPachrukhi mandal3,087 pop
Villages near Harihans
Other villages in Hussainganj mandal
View all 54+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-18
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)