Rakh observes Ganesh Chaturthi on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Jharkhand.
By population, Rakh ranks #113 of 258 villages in Nala mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Rakh is a village of 521 people in 114 households (Census 2011) in Nala block, Jamtara district, Jharkhand, the 113th-largest of 258 villages in Nala block. Literacy is 37%, 18 points below the block average of 55% and the sex ratio is 1,109 women per 1,000 men. It lies 11 km from the Jamtara district centre, 38 km from Barra, the nearest town, 17 km from Jamtara railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 815355, served by Nala post office; the LGD village code is 372868. The nearest hospital or health centre is Dubey Clinic, <1 km away. The sarpanch is SONOHARI HEMBRAM, and the village votes in Sarath assembly constituency, represented by MLA Uday Shankar Singh. The population is estimated at 614 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kuldangal →
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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