By population, Bara ranks #92 of 211 villages in Poreyahat mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bara is a village of 659 people in 122 households (Census 2011) in Poreyahat block, Godda district, Jharkhand, the 92nd-largest of 211 villages in Poreyahat block. Literacy is 45%, 2 points below the block average of 47% and the sex ratio is 1,028 women per 1,000 men. It lies 57 km from the Godda district centre, 20 km from Pratappur, the nearest town, 21 km from Kurwa railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 814153, served by Poraiyahat post office; the LGD village code is 357590. The nearest hospital or health centre is PHC, Titadih, 12 km away. The sarpanch is Mukesh Murmu. The population is estimated at 777 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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