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By population, Puraina ranks #18 of 23 villages in Chaugain mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Puraina is a village of 517 people in 76 households (Census 2011) in Chaugain block, Buxar district, Bihar, the 18th-largest of 23 villages in Chaugain block. Literacy is 24%, 33 points below the block average, and the sex ratio is 1,219 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 802115, served by Chaugai post office; the LGD village code is 248073. The sarpanch is VEERU KUMAR SINGH, and the village votes in Brahampur assembly constituency, represented by Shambhu Nath Yadav. The population is estimated at 610 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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