Lead story
26
September 2026
newsSTATE
Nepal floods: A Bihar village grapples with loss and crushing debt
Reported by Livemint.
By Resident0 likes0 comments
Represented by
Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Dharhara is a village in Nirmali mandal, Supaul district, Bihar with a population of 528 across 114 households. It has a literacy rate of 44.9% and is situated at coordinates 25.259°N, 86.410°E.
PC
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Prakash Chandra Mehta
Contact: 97****4653
Spotted a stale sarpanch record? Sign in and a verified resident of Dharhara can update it.
- LGD code
- 220925
- Pincode
- 847451
- Post office
- Kunauli Bazar
- Population
- 528
- Households
- 114
- Literacy rate
- 44.9%
- Sex ratio
- 1047 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 229
- Distance to district centre
- 83 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 152 km
- Distance to Patna
- 133 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 359 km
- Nearest railway station
- Dharhara · <1 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Dharhara · <1 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Dharhara compares
By population, Dharhara ranks #18 of 22 villages in Nirmali mandal.
Literacy rate
%
44.9%
+0.9% vs mandal average
- Dharhara
- 44.9%
- Nirmali mandal
- 44.0%
- Supaul district
- 46.4%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,047
+98 vs mandal average
- Dharhara
- 1,047
- Nirmali mandal
- 949
Household size
people per home
4.6
−0.3 vs mandal average
- Dharhara
- 4.6
- Nirmali mandal
- 4.9
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Dharhara at a glance
Dharhara is a village of 528 people in 114 households (Census 2011) in Nirmali block, Supaul district, Bihar, the 18th-largest of 22 villages in Nirmali block. Literacy is 45%, about the same as the block average of 44% and the sex ratio is 1,047 women per 1,000 men. It lies 83 km from the Supaul district centre, 10 km from Jamalpur, the nearest town, under 1 km from Dharhara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 847451, served by Kunauli Bazar post office; the LGD village code is 220925. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dharhara, <1 km away. The sarpanch is Prakash Chandra Mehta, and the village votes in Paroo assembly constituency, represented by MLA Shankar Prasad. The population is estimated at 623 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kamalpur →
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 · Dharhara
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- No
- Electricity for farms
- No
- Power hours (summer)
- 0
- Power hours (winter)
- 0
- Primary school
- 0
- Middle school
- 0
- 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
- No
- 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
- No
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- Yes
- Weekly haat
- Yes
- Nearest statutory town
- NIRMALI
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 30
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 140
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 30
- All-weather road
- No
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- KAMALPUR
- Total area (ha)
- 495.2
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 8
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Dharhara
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Dharhara
- LGD code
- 220925
- Pincode
- 847451
- Post office
- Kunauli Bazar
- Population (Census 2011)
- 528
- Population (projected 2026)
- 623
- Households
- 114
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1047
- Literacy rate
- 44.9%
- Coordinates
- 25.25859°N, 86.41007°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Vaishali
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Paroo
- Member of Parliament
- Veena Devi
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Shankar Prasad
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Prakash Chandra Mehta
- Block / Mandal
- Nirmali
Getting there
How to reach Dharhara
Distance to cities · straight line
- Patna133 kmcapital
- Kolkata359 km
- Delhi985 km
- Hyderabad1199 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationDharhara<1 km
- Hospital / PHCDharhara<1 km
- ATM / bankICICI Bank10 km
- CollegeKDS colleage29 km
- Police stationFaridpur Police Station9 km
Same pincode
Villages sharing pincode 847451
Same name, different place
Other villages named Dharhara
Looking for a different Dharhara? The largest eight this name across India. All villages named Dharhara →
- DharharaBanmankhi · Purnia, Bihar7,781 pop
- DharharaSilao · Nalanda, Bihar4,858 pop
- DharharaGopalpur · Bhagalpur, Bihar4,537 pop
- DharharaLaukahi · Madhubani, Bihar4,238 pop
- DharharaMohanpur · Gaya, Bihar3,138 pop
- DharharaBallia · Ballia, Uttar Pradesh2,969 pop
- DharharaNauhatta · Saharsa, Bihar2,064 pop
- DharharaKatiya · Gopalganj, Bihar2,041 pop
Other villages in Nirmali mandal
View all 22 →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-09-23
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-25
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)