By population, Kheskari ranks #12 of 135 villages in Jainagar mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kheskari is a village of 2,408 people in 391 households (Census 2011) in Jainagar block, Koderma district, Jharkhand, the 12th-largest of 135 villages in Jainagar block. Literacy is 63%, 8 points above the block average of 55% and the sex ratio is 923 women per 1,000 men. It lies 51 km from the Koderma district centre, 22 km from Markacho, the nearest town, 3 km from Hirodih railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 825109, served by Jainagar (Koderma) post office; the LGD village code is 349898. The nearest hospital or health centre is Jainagar hospital, 3 km away. The sarpanch is Shaista Khanam, and the village votes in Bagodar assembly constituency, represented by MLA Nagendra Mahto. The population is estimated at 2,839 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Katahadih →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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