By population, Banka ranks #186 of 258 villages in Narayanpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Banka is a village of 201 people in 37 households (Census 2011) in Narayanpur block, Jamtara district, Jharkhand, the 186th-largest of 258 villages in Narayanpur block. Literacy is 50%, 6 points above the block average of 44% and the sex ratio is 990 women per 1,000 men. It lies 82 km from the Jamtara district centre, 28 km from Gaura, the nearest town, 2 km from Banka railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 815357, served by Karogram post office; the LGD village code is 372429. The nearest hospital or health centre is Government Hospital, Jagatpur, 2 km away. The sarpanch is CHUBBI MARANDI, and the village votes in Jamtara assembly constituency, represented by MLA Irfan Ansari. The population is estimated at 854 in 2026, up 325% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Bankudih →
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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