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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
RK
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
REENA KUMARI
Contact: 96****5362
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- LGD code
- 361157
- Pincode
- 828142
- Population
- 420
- Households
- 67
- Literacy rate
- 36.7%
- Sex ratio
- 883 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 212
- Distance to district centre
- 29 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 1 km
- Distance to Ranchi
- 190 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 236 km
- Nearest railway station
- Joramow Railway Station · 21 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- CHC, Sarath · 7 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Basaha compares
By population, Basaha ranks #88 of 211 villages in Tundi mandal.
Literacy rate
%
36.7%
−12.2% vs mandal average
- Basaha
- 36.7%
- Tundi mandal
- 48.9%
- Dhanbad district
- 64.2%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
883
−72 vs mandal average
- Basaha
- 883
- Tundi mandal
- 955
Household size
people per home
6.3
+0.9 vs mandal average
- Basaha
- 6.3
- Tundi mandal
- 5.4
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Basaha at a glance
Basaha is a village of 420 people in 67 households (Census 2011) in Tundi block, Dhanbad district, Jharkhand, the 88th-largest of 211 villages in Tundi block. Literacy is 37%, 12 points below the block average of 49% and the sex ratio is 883 women per 1,000 men. It lies 29 km from the Dhanbad district centre, 55 km from Barra, the nearest town, 21 km from Joramow Railway Station railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 828142; the LGD village code is 361157. The nearest hospital or health centre is CHC, Sarath, 7 km away. The sarpanch is REENA KUMARI, and the village votes in Sarath assembly constituency, represented by MLA Uday Shankar Singh. The population is estimated at 495 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Basaha
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- Yes
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- No
- Power hours (summer)
- 10
- Power hours (winter)
- 11
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 1
- Secondary school
- 1
- Senior secondary
- 1
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 1
- 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
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- DHANBAD
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 21
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 21
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 8
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- BENGNARIA
- Total area (ha)
- 120.15
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 1.66
- Forest area (ha)
- 31.2
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Basaha
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Basaha
- LGD code
- 361157
- Pincode
- 828142
- Population (Census 2011)
- 420
- Population (projected 2026)
- 495
- Households
- 67
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 883
- Literacy rate
- 36.7%
- Coordinates
- 24.22420°N, 86.90917°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Dumka
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Sarath
- Member of Parliament
- Nalin Soren
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Uday Shankar Singh
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- REENA KUMARI
- Block / Mandal
- Tundi
Getting there
How to reach Basaha
Distance to cities · straight line
- Ranchi190 kmcapital
- Kolkata236 km
- Delhi1082 km
- Hyderabad1159 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationJoramow Railway Station21 km
- Hospital / PHCCHC, Sarath7 km
- ATM / bankSBI Main Branch35 km
- Petrol pumpHP Petrol Pump37 km
- CollegeBajla Mahila College36 km
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Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)