Bichkilla observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Jharkhand.
By population, Bichkilla ranks #56 of 176 villages in Pratappur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bichkilla is a village of 766 people in 115 households (Census 2011) in Pratappur block, Chatra district, Jharkhand, the 56th-largest of 176 villages in Pratappur block. Literacy is 61%, 18 points above the block average of 43% and the sex ratio is 905 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 825404, served by Pratappur (Chatra) post office; the LGD village code is 348297. The sarpanch is AMRESH KUMAR SINGH, and the village votes in Barkatha assembly constituency, represented by MLA Amit Kumar Yadav. The population is estimated at 903 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Moneya →
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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