Kolhua is a village in Barhat mandal, Jamui district, Bihar. With a population of 5,729 spread across 1,052 households, it has a literacy rate of 43.9%. The village is located at coordinates 26.021°N, 85.117°E with PIN code 811307.
By population, Kolhua ranks #7 of 43 villages in Barhat mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kolhua is a village of 5,729 people in 1,052 households (Census 2011) in Barhat block, Jamui district, Bihar, the 7th-largest of 43 villages in Barhat block. Literacy is 44%, 6 points below the block average, and the sex ratio is 945 women per 1,000 men. It lies 134 km from the Jamui district centre, 4 km from Saraiya, the nearest town, under 1 km from Saraiya Junction railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 811307, served by Jamui Court post office; the LGD village code is 258761. The nearest hospital or health centre is Jeevan Rekha Arogya Sansthn, 6 km away. The sarpanch is DAMODAR PASWAN, and the village votes in Kusheshwar Asthan assembly constituency, represented by Atirek Kumar. The population is estimated at 6,754 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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