Pharabari is a village in Pothia mandal, Kishanganj district, Bihar, with a population of 1,665 and 316 households. It has the highest literacy rate among surveyed villages at 55.1% and is located at 26.099°N, 88.126°E under PIN code 855101.
By population, Pharabari ranks #55 of 149 villages in Pothia mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Pharabari is a village of 1,665 people in 316 households (Census 2011) in Pothia block, Kishanganj district, Bihar, the 55th-largest of 149 villages in Pothia block. Literacy is 55%, 14 points above the block average of 41% and the sex ratio is 980 women per 1,000 men. It lies 53 km from the Kishanganj district centre, 2 km from Jaingaon, the nearest town, 10 km from Gaisal railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 855101, served by Bahadurganj (Kishanganj) post office; the LGD village code is 222613. The nearest hospital or health centre is Lodhan Rural Hospital, 3 km away. The sarpanch is DOLY DAS, and the village votes in Dhamdaha assembly constituency, represented by MLA Leshi Singh.
Gram panchayat: Raypur →
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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