Icha observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Jharkhand.
By population, Icha ranks #21 of 119 villages in Ghaghra mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Icha is a village of 1,433 people in 259 households (Census 2011) in Ghaghra block, Gumla district, Jharkhand, the 21st-largest of 119 villages in Ghaghra block. Literacy is 48%, 2 points above the block average of 45% and the sex ratio is 1,047 women per 1,000 men. It lies 99 km from the Gumla district centre, 10 km from Chaibasa railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 835207, served by Gumla Bazar post office; the LGD village code is 375555. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sunrise Hospital, 10 km away. The sarpanch is VINITA KUMARI , and the village votes in Mandu assembly constituency, represented by MLA Nirmal Mahto. The population is estimated at 1,690 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Chundari →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
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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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