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If the Son canal system has more water, why are Bihar’s fields still thirsty?
Reported by Counterview.
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23 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.
Shambhuganj is a mandal in Banka district, Bihar, with 188 revenue villages and 19 gram panchayats. According to Census 2011, the population was 173,974 with a literacy rate of 53.2% and a sex ratio of 884. The mandal had 59,841 workers, comprising 5,094 cultivators and 10,564 agricultural labourers. JJM tap-water coverage reached 96.4%.
No places ingested for Shambhuganj 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 Shambhuganj mandal.
கிராமத்தைத் தேர்ந்தெடுத்து மக்கள், பதிவுகள், வேலைகள், சேவைகள் பக்கத்தைத் திறக்கவும்.
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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