By population, Barkela ranks #137 of 141 villages in Murhu mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Barkela is a village of 109 people in 25 households (Census 2011) in Murhu block, Khunti district, Jharkhand, the 137th-largest of 141 villages in Murhu block. Literacy is 51%, 2 points below the block average of 53% and the sex ratio is 847 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 835210, served by Khunti post office; the LGD village code is 375042. The sarpanch is CHAMNI HASSA PURTI. The population is estimated at 129 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Kewda →
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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