Kantho observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
By population, Kantho ranks #23 of 60 villages in Simri Bakhtiarpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kantho is a village of 4,031 people in 817 households (Census 2011) in Simri Bakhtiarpur block, Saharsa district, Bihar, the 23rd-largest of 60 villages in Simri Bakhtiarpur block. Literacy is 27%, 11 points below the block average of 39% and the sex ratio is 948 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 852106, served by Chapraon post office; the LGD village code is 226600. The sarpanch is BHOLENDRA ROY, and the village votes in Khagaria assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bablu Kumar. The population is estimated at 4,753 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kantho →
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.
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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