By population, Hilawa ranks #8 of 113 villages in Bashant Rai* mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Hilawa is a village of 2,348 people in 388 households (Census 2011) in Bashant Rai* block, Godda district, Jharkhand, the 8th-largest of 113 villages in Bashant Rai* block. Literacy is 55%, 12 points above the block average of 43% and the sex ratio is 949 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 814155, served by Basantrai post office; the LGD village code is 357139. The sarpanch is goutam kumar gupta, and the village votes in Jarmundi assembly constituency, represented by MLA Devendra Kunwar. The population is estimated at 2,768 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Hilawe →
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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