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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
SB
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
SONI BHAGAT
Contact: 62****6989
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- LGD code
- 374067
- Pincode
- 834001
- Post office
- Church Road
- Population
- 1,647
- Households
- 295
- Literacy rate
- 69.2%
- Sex ratio
- 924 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 636
- Distance to district centre
- 218 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 227 km
- Distance to Ranchi
- 277 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 268 km
- Nearest railway station
- Godda · 29 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Primary Health Centre · 8 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Jari compares
By population, Jari ranks #21 of 51 villages in Ratu mandal.
Literacy rate
%
69.2%
+8.3% vs mandal average
- Jari
- 69.2%
- Ratu mandal
- 60.9%
- Ranchi district
- 65.6%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
924
−40 vs mandal average
- Jari
- 924
- Ratu mandal
- 964
Household size
people per home
5.6
+0.2 vs mandal average
- Jari
- 5.6
- Ratu mandal
- 5.4
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Jari at a glance
Jari is a village of 1,647 people in 295 households (Census 2011) in Ratu block, Ranchi district, Jharkhand, the 21st-largest of 51 villages in Ratu block. Literacy is 69%, 8 points above the block average of 61% and the sex ratio is 924 women per 1,000 men. It lies 218 km from the Ranchi district centre, 22 km from Majhua, the nearest town, 29 km from Godda railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 834001, served by Church Road post office; the LGD village code is 374067. The nearest hospital or health centre is Primary Health Centre, 8 km away. The sarpanch is SONI BHAGAT. The population is estimated at 1,942 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Jari
- 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
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 0
- Power hours (winter)
- 0
- Primary school
- 2
- Middle school
- 1
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 1
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- Yes
- 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
- No
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- RANCHI
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 6
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 6
- All-weather road
- No
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- BANAPIRI
- Total area (ha)
- 236
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 0
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Jari
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Key facts — Jari
- LGD code
- 374067
- Pincode
- 834001
- Post office
- Church Road
- Population (Census 2011)
- 1,647
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,942
- Households
- 295
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 924
- Literacy rate
- 69.2%
- Coordinates
- 24.84692°N, 87.48271°E
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- SONI BHAGAT
- Block / Mandal
- Ratu
Getting there
How to reach Jari
Distance to cities · straight line
- Ranchi277 kmcapital
- Kolkata268 km
- Delhi1102 km
- Hyderabad1248 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationGodda29 km
- Hospital / PHCPrimary Health Centre8 km
- Police stationKaliachak Police Station54 km
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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