By population, Puraini ranks #42 of 118 villages in Mayur Hand mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Puraini is a village of 429 people in 83 households (Census 2011) in Mayur Hand block, Chatra district, Jharkhand, the 42nd-largest of 118 villages in Mayur Hand block. Literacy is 66%, 13 points above the block average, and the sex ratio is 968 women per 1,000 men. It lies 269 km from the Chatra district centre, 15 km from Arsali, the nearest town, 3 km from Nagar Untari railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 825408, served by Itkhori post office; the LGD village code is 349117. The nearest hospital or health centre is Gulab Hospital, under 1 km away. The sarpanch is Renu Devi, and the village votes in Jamua assembly constituency, represented by Manju Kumari. The population is estimated at 506 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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