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By population, Alkusha ranks #70 of 112 villages in Jaipur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Alkusha is a village of 694 people in 117 households (Census 2011) in Jaipur block, Purulia district, West Bengal, the 70th-largest of 112 villages in Jaipur block. Literacy is 65%, 17 points above the block average, and the sex ratio is 949 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 723201, served by Garjaipur post office; the LGD village code is 329836. The sarpanch is GITA GOPE. The population is estimated at 818 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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