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If the Son canal system has more water, why are Bihar’s fields still thirsty?
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8 village centroids, sized by Census 2011 population. Tap a village to open its page.
Centroids from LGD/OSM; the cross marks the mandal centroid. Not a survey map.
Barahat mandal is situated in Banka district, Bihar, with 75 revenue villages and 15 gram panchayats. Census 2011 data showed a population of 149,188 in 28,940 households, with a literacy rate of 48.9% and a sex ratio of 916. The mandal recorded 50,040 workers, of whom 8,931 were cultivators and 13,032 were agricultural labourers. Under the Jal Jeevan Mission, 96.4% of households had tap water access.
No places ingested for Barahat mandal yet — the OSM spatial-join (§5.5) will populate them once it runs.
Aggregated from village fixtures + OpenStreetMap. Numbers will rise as the LGD + OSM ingest covers more villages in Barahat mandal.
ਪਿੰਡ 'ਤੇ ਕਲਿੱਕ ਕਰਕੇ ਲੋਕ, ਪੋਸਟਾਂ, ਨੌਕਰੀਆਂ ਅਤੇ ਸੇਵਾਵਾਂ ਵਾਲਾ ਪੰਨਾ ਖੋਲ੍ਹੋ।
Answers are auto-built from the village's verified record. If something is wrong, residents can correct it after claiming the village.
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