Simla observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Jharkhand.
By population, Simla ranks #97 of 261 villages in Shikaripara mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Simla is a village of 527 people in 117 households (Census 2011) in Shikaripara block, Dumka district, Jharkhand, the 97th-largest of 261 villages in Shikaripara block. Literacy is 42%, 5 points below the block average of 47% and the sex ratio is 1,059 women per 1,000 men. It lies 104 km from the Dumka district centre, 4 km from Bewa (P), the nearest town, 7 km from New Farakka Junction railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 816118, served by Shikaripara post office; the LGD village code is 370867. The nearest hospital or health centre is Farakka Barrage Hospital, 6 km away. The sarpanch is PRINSHILA MURMU, and the village votes in Dumka assembly constituency, represented by MLA Basant Soren. The population is estimated at 621 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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