Purainia observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
Temples near Purainia
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By population, Purainia ranks #45 of 90 villages in Bihta mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Purainia is a village of 1,919 people in 311 households (Census 2011) in Bihta block, Patna district, Bihar, the 45th-largest of 90 villages in Bihta block. Literacy is 64%, 11 points above the block average of 53% and the sex ratio is 858 women per 1,000 men. It lies 222 km from the Patna district centre, 0 km from Champapur, the nearest town, under 1 km from Narkatyaganj railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 801103, served by Bihta (Patna) post office; the LGD village code is 245437. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sub-Divisional Hospital, Narkatiyaganj, <1 km away. The village votes in Rosera assembly constituency, represented by MLA Birendra Kumar. The population is estimated at 2,263 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Makhdumpur →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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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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