Khaira observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
Khaira is a village in Dumaria mandal, Gaya district, Bihar, with 885 residents in 166 households and a literacy rate of 48.2%. The village is located at 24.872°N, 86.207°E with PIN code 824221.
By population, Khaira ranks #56 of 124 villages in Dumaria mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Khaira is a village of 885 people in 166 households (Census 2011) in Dumaria block, Gaya district, Bihar, the 56th-largest of 124 villages in Dumaria block. Literacy is 48%, 3 points above the block average of 45% and the sex ratio is 941 women per 1,000 men. It lies 83 km from the Gaya district centre, 0 km from Khaira, the nearest town, 10 km from Chaura BH railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 824221, served by Dumaria post office; the LGD village code is 256206. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Khaira, <1 km away. The sarpanch is Ashok Gupta, and the village votes in Kalyanpur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Maheshwar Hazari. The population is estimated at 1,043 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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