Karihan observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Bihar.
By population, Karihan ranks #57 of 137 villages in Mahua mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Karihan is a village of 1,860 people in 309 households (Census 2011) in Mahua block, Vaishali district, Bihar, the 57th-largest of 137 villages in Mahua block. Literacy is 63%, 7 points above the block average of 56% and the sex ratio is 900 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 844122, served by Mahuwa post office; the LGD village code is 235278. The sarpanch is LALWATI DEVI, and the village votes in Beldaur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Panna Lal Singh Patel. The population is estimated at 2,193 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Tajpur Buzurg →
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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