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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
MK
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
MD KALIMUDDIN
Contact: 91****1140
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- LGD code
- 357604
- Pincode
- 814153
- Post office
- Poraiyahat
- Population
- 903
- Households
- 193
- Literacy rate
- 47.5%
- Sex ratio
- 985 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 461
- Distance to district centre
- 76 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 85 km
- Distance to Ranchi
- 312 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 293 km
- Nearest railway station
- Karanpurato · 5 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- PHC, Banjhi · 3 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Karikadar compares
By population, Karikadar ranks #64 of 211 villages in Poreyahat mandal.
Literacy rate
%
47.5%
+0.7% vs mandal average
- Karikadar
- 47.5%
- Poreyahat mandal
- 46.8%
- Godda district
- 46.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
985
+28 vs mandal average
- Karikadar
- 985
- Poreyahat mandal
- 957
Household size
people per home
4.7
−0.3 vs mandal average
- Karikadar
- 4.7
- Poreyahat mandal
- 5.0
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Karikadar at a glance
Karikadar is a village of 903 people in 193 households (Census 2011) in Poreyahat block, Godda district, Jharkhand, the 64th-largest of 211 villages in Poreyahat block. Literacy is 48%, about the same as the block average of 47% and the sex ratio is 985 women per 1,000 men. It lies 76 km from the Godda district centre, 1 km from Marwa, the nearest town, 5 km from Karanpurato railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 814153, served by Poraiyahat post office; the LGD village code is 357604. The nearest hospital or health centre is PHC, Banjhi, 3 km away. The sarpanch is MD KALIMUDDIN. The population is estimated at 1,065 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Karikadar
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- No
- Electricity for farms
- No
- Power hours (summer)
- 0
- Power hours (winter)
- 0
- Primary school
- 1
- 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
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- GODDA
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 30
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 30
- All-weather road
- No
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- KHARKACHIA
- Total area (ha)
- 419
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 229.2
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Karikadar
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Karikadar
- LGD code
- 357604
- Pincode
- 814153
- Post office
- Poraiyahat
- Population (Census 2011)
- 903
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,065
- Households
- 193
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 985
- Literacy rate
- 47.5%
- Coordinates
- 25.13003°N, 87.68293°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Dumka
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Jama
- Member of Parliament
- Nalin Soren
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- MD KALIMUDDIN
- Block / Mandal
- Poreyahat
- Nearest railway station
- Punsia (71.2 km)
Getting there
How to reach Karikadar
Distance to cities · straight line
- Ranchi312 kmcapital
- Kolkata293 km
- Delhi1108 km
- Hyderabad1284 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationKaranpurato5 km
- Hospital / PHCPHC, Banjhi3 km
- CollegeD S College46 km
- Police stationKaliachak Police Station45 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)