Lead story
26
September 2026
newsSTATE
Nepal floods: A Bihar village grapples with loss and crushing debt
Reported by Livemint.
By Resident0 likes0 comments
Represented by
Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
UD
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
USHA DEVI
Contact: 85****6461
Spotted a stale sarpanch record? Sign in and a verified resident of Meraripur can update it.
- LGD code
- 251740
- Pincode
- 821108
- Post office
- Kudra
- Population
- 434
- Households
- 78
- Literacy rate
- 45.4%
- Sex ratio
- 912 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 96
2011 സെൻസസ് · താരതമ്യത്തിൽ
Meraripur താരതമ്യം
By population, Meraripur ranks #164 of 257 villages in Kargahar mandal.
Literacy rate
%
45.4%
−17.3% vs mandal average
- Meraripur
- 45.4%
- Kargahar mandal
- 62.7%
- Rohtas district
- 60.8%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
912
+4 vs mandal average
- Meraripur
- 912
- Kargahar mandal
- 908
Household size
people per home
5.6
−1.5 vs mandal average
- Meraripur
- 5.6
- Kargahar mandal
- 7.1
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Meraripur ഒറ്റനോട്ടത്തിൽ
Meraripur ബിഹാർയിലെ റോഹ്താസ് ജില്ല, Kargahar ബ്ലോക്ക്ൽ 434 പേർ 78 കുടുംബങ്ങളിൽ (2011 സെൻസസ്) താമസിക്കുന്ന ഗ്രാമമാണ്, Kargahar ബ്ലോക്ക്ലെ 257 ഗ്രാമങ്ങളിൽ വലുപ്പത്തിൽ 164-ാമത്. സാക്ഷരത 45%, ബ്ലോക്ക് ശരാശരി 63% നേക്കാൾ 17 പോയിന്റ് കുറവ് ലിംഗാനുപാതം 1,000 പുരുഷന്മാർക്ക് 912 സ്ത്രീകൾ. പിൻകോഡ് 821108, Kudra പോസ്റ്റ് ഓഫീസിന് കീഴിൽ; LGD ഗ്രാമ കോഡ് 251740. പ്രസിഡന്റ് USHA DEVI; ഗ്രാമം Mohiuddinnagar നിയമസഭാ മണ്ഡലത്തിലാണ്, എംഎൽഎ Rajesh Kumar Singh. 2026ൽ ജനസംഖ്യ ഏകദേശം 512, 2011നെക്കാൾ 18% കൂടുതൽ.
ഗ്രാമപഞ്ചായത്ത്: Kalyanpur →
സമീപ ഗ്രാമങ്ങളുടെ താരതമ്യം
അടുത്തടുത്ത് താരതമ്യം →Complete this village · 4/7
Add what you know →- Sarpanch name
- Panchayat contact
- Pincode
- About the villageA few sentences on history and livelihood
- A photoTemple, school, fields — anything from the village
- A festival or jatara
- A notable personTeacher, soldier, sportsperson, entrepreneur
Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Meraripur
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- Yes
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- No
- Electricity for farms
- No
- Power hours (summer)
- 0
- Power hours (winter)
- 0
- Primary school
- 0
- 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
- Yes
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- No
- Anganwadi centre
- No
- ASHA worker
- No
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- Yes
- Nearest statutory town
- SASARAM
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 12
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 12
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 10
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- Kalyanpur
- Total area (ha)
- 68
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 66.93
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Meraripur
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
പ്രധാന വിവരങ്ങൾ — Meraripur
- LGD code
- 251740
- Pincode
- 821108
- Post office
- Kudra
- Population (Census 2011)
- 434
- Population (projected 2026)
- 512
- Households
- 78
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 912
- Literacy rate
- 45.4%
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Ujiarpur
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Mohiuddinnagar
- Member of Parliament
- Nityanand Rai
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Rajesh Kumar Singh
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- USHA DEVI
- Block / Mandal
- Kargahar
അതേ പിൻകോഡ്
Villages sharing pincode 821108
Other villages in the same gram panchayat as Meraripur
Kargahar മണ്ഡലം മറ്റ് ഗ്രാമങ്ങൾ
View all 60+ →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)