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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
DM
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
DURGA MUNDA
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- LGD code
- 373671
- Pincode
- 834001
- Post office
- Church Road
- Population
- 527
- Households
- 108
- Literacy rate
- 54.3%
- Sex ratio
- 996 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 276
- Distance to district centre
- 149 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 148 km
- Distance to Ranchi
- 197 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 135 km
- Nearest railway station
- Jhargram · 15 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Lalgarh Hospital · <1 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Lalgarh compares
By population, Lalgarh ranks #67 of 83 villages in Angara mandal.
Literacy rate
%
54.3%
−0.5% vs mandal average
- Lalgarh
- 54.3%
- Angara mandal
- 54.8%
- Ranchi district
- 65.6%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
996
+12 vs mandal average
- Lalgarh
- 996
- Angara mandal
- 984
Household size
people per home
4.9
−0.1 vs mandal average
- Lalgarh
- 4.9
- Angara mandal
- 5.0
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Lalgarh at a glance
Lalgarh is a village of 527 people in 108 households (Census 2011) in Angara block, Ranchi district, Jharkhand, the 67th-largest of 83 villages in Angara block. Literacy is 54%, about the same as the block average, and the sex ratio is 996 women per 1,000 men. It lies 149 km from the Ranchi district centre, 53 km from Gaurhati, the nearest town, 15 km from Jhargram railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 834001, served by Church Road post office; the LGD village code is 373671. The nearest hospital or health centre is Lalgarh Hospital, under 1 km away. The sarpanch is DURGA MUNDA. The population is estimated at 5,633 in 2026, up 969% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Lalgarh
- LGD code
- 373671
- Pincode
- 834001
- Post office
- Church Road
- Population (Census 2011)
- 527
- Population (projected 2026)
- 5,633
- Households
- 108
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 996
- Literacy rate
- 54.3%
- Coordinates
- 22.58651°N, 87.04779°E
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- DURGA MUNDA
- Block / Mandal
- Angara
Getting there
How to reach Lalgarh
Distance to cities · straight line
- Ranchi197 kmcapital
- Kolkata135 km
- Hyderabad1065 km
- Delhi1192 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationJhargram15 km
- Hospital / PHCLalgarh Hospital<1 km
- ATM / bankPunjab National Bank19 km
- Petrol pumpCalTax34 km
- CollegeMidnapore City College31 km
- Police stationKharagpur Local Police Station40 km
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-07
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
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