Sarkanda observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
Sarkanda is a village in Tan Kuppa mandal, Gaya district, Bihar, with a population of 759 and literacy rate of 31.6%. The village has 115 households and is located at coordinates 25.221°N, 87.430°E with PIN code 824232.
By population, Sarkanda ranks #59 of 103 villages in Tan Kuppa mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Sarkanda is a village of 759 people in 115 households (Census 2011) in Tan Kuppa block, Gaya district, Bihar, the 59th-largest of 103 villages in Tan Kuppa block. Literacy is 32%, 14 points below the block average of 46% and the sex ratio is 912 women per 1,000 men. It lies 153 km from the Gaya district centre, 8 km from Sundarpur, the nearest town, 6 km from Ammapali railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 824232, served by Fatehpur (Gaya) post office; the LGD village code is 256671. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Barahat Ishipur, 6 km away. The village votes in Lakhisarai assembly constituency, represented by MLA Vijay Kumar Sinha. The population is estimated at 895 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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