Chapra is a village in Barahat mandal, Banka district, Bihar with a population of 1,067 across 208 households and a literacy rate of 57.4%. The village is located at coordinates 25.697°N, 88.069°E with PIN code 813109.
By population, Chapra ranks #34 of 73 villages in Barahat mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chapra is a village of 1,067 people in 208 households (Census 2011) in Barahat block, Banka district, Bihar, the 34th-largest of 73 villages in Barahat block. Literacy is 57%, 9 points above the block average of 49% and the sex ratio is 980 women per 1,000 men. It lies 171 km from the Banka district centre, 8 km from Raghopur, the nearest town, 8 km from Jhitkia railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 813109, served by Punsia post office; the LGD village code is 241186. The nearest hospital or health centre is IPP Hospital, 11 km away. The sarpanch is Arvind Kumar, and the village votes in Ujiarpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Alok Kumar Mehta. The population is estimated at 961 in 2026, down 10% 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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