By population, Banha ranks #18 of 118 villages in Mayur Hand mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Banha is a village of 906 people in 159 households (Census 2011) in Mayur Hand block, Chatra district, Jharkhand, the 18th-largest of 118 villages in Mayur Hand block. Literacy is 56%, 3 points above the block average of 53% and the sex ratio is 1,248 women per 1,000 men. It lies 34 km from the Chatra district centre, 29 km from Beko, the nearest town, 1 km from Jamua railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 825408, served by Itkhori post office; the LGD village code is 349152. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sadar Hospital, Jamua, <1 km away. The sarpanch is Vijul Devi, and the village votes in Jamua assembly constituency, represented by MLA Manju Kumari. The population is estimated at 1,068 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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