Raksa observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Jharkhand.
By population, Raksa ranks #221 of 453 villages in Mohanpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Raksa is a village of 281 people in 44 households (Census 2011) in Mohanpur block, Deoghar district, Jharkhand, the 221st-largest of 453 villages in Mohanpur block. Literacy is 30%, 18 points below the block average of 48% and the sex ratio is 925 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 814116, served by Satsang post office; the LGD village code is 353321. The sarpanch is MUKESH KUMAR, and the village votes in Madhupur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Hafizul Hassan. The population is estimated at 331 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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