Basant observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
Basant is a village in Madanpur mandal, Aurangabad district, Bihar. It has a population of 3,215 across 457 households with a literacy rate of 48.8%. The village is located at 26.373°N, 85.699°E.
By population, Basant ranks #16 of 124 villages in Madanpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Basant is a village of 3,215 people in 457 households (Census 2011) in Madanpur block, Aurangabad district, Bihar, the 16th-largest of 124 villages in Madanpur block. Literacy is 49%, 6 points below the block average of 55% and the sex ratio is 957 women per 1,000 men. It lies 101 km from the Aurangabad district centre, 3 km from Jale, the nearest town, 6 km from Jogiara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 824208, served by Madanpur (Aurangabad(BH)) post office; the LGD village code is 254431. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Basant, <1 km away. The sarpanch is MANOJ CHAUDHARY, and the village votes in Ujiarpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Alok Kumar Mehta. The population is estimated at 3,790 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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