Derma is a village in Bashant Rai mandal, Godda district, Jharkhand, with a population of 1,367 across 254 households. The village has a literacy rate of 50.8% and is located at coordinates 24.972°N, 87.162°E.
By population, Derma ranks #27 of 113 villages in Bashant Rai* mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Derma is a village of 1,367 people in 254 households (Census 2011) in Bashant Rai* block, Godda district, Jharkhand, the 27th-largest of 113 villages in Bashant Rai* block. Literacy is 51%, 8 points above the block average of 43% and the sex ratio is 961 women per 1,000 men. It lies 45 km from the Godda district centre, 7 km from Gaura, the nearest town, 16 km from Godda railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 814155, served by Basantrai post office; the LGD village code is 357111. The nearest hospital or health centre is PHC, Parsa, 10 km away. The sarpanch is RITU CHODHARY, and the village votes in Jarmundi assembly constituency, represented by MLA Devendra Kunwar. The population is estimated at 1,612 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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