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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Harser is a village in Nagri mandal, Ranchi district, Jharkhand, with a population of 1,169 across 238 households and a literacy rate of 74.9%. It has a police station and post office, serving as an administrative hub for the locality.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Manju linda
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- LGD code
- 374136
- Pincode
- 834001
- Post office
- Church Road
- Population
- 1,169
- Households
- 238
- Literacy rate
- 74.9%
- Sex ratio
- 998 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 411
- Distance to district centre
- 73 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 70 km
- Distance to Ranchi
- 7 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 328 km
- Nearest railway station
- Balasiring · 4 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- ESIC Dhurwa · 2 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Harser compares
By population, Harser ranks #21 of 45 villages in Nagri mandal.
Literacy rate
%
74.9%
+14.6% vs mandal average
- Harser
- 74.9%
- Nagri mandal
- 60.3%
- Ranchi district
- 65.6%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
998
+15 vs mandal average
- Harser
- 998
- Nagri mandal
- 983
Household size
people per home
4.9
−0.3 vs mandal average
- Harser
- 4.9
- Nagri mandal
- 5.2
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Harser at a glance
Harser is a village of 1,169 people in 238 households (Census 2011) in Nagri block, Ranchi district, Jharkhand, the 21st-largest of 45 villages in Nagri block. Literacy is 75%, 15 points above the block average, and the sex ratio is 998 women per 1,000 men. It lies 73 km from the Ranchi district centre, 49 km from Tamar, the nearest town, 4 km from Balasiring railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 834001, served by Church Road post office; the LGD village code is 374136. The nearest hospital or health centre is ESIC Dhurwa, 2 km away. The sarpanch is Manju linda, and the village votes in Gomia assembly constituency, represented by Yogendra Prasad.
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Key facts — Harser
- LGD code
- 374136
- Pincode
- 834001
- Post office
- Church Road
- Population (Census 2011)
- 1,169
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,378
- Households
- 238
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 998
- Literacy rate
- 74.9%
- Coordinates
- 23.29656°N, 85.26044°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Giridih
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Gomia
- Member of Parliament
- Chandra Prakash Choudhary
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Yogendra Prasad
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Manju linda
- Block / Mandal
- Nagri
- Nearest police station
- Dhurwa Police Station (1.6 km)
- Nearest post office
- India Post (2.1 km)
Getting there
How to reach Harser
Distance to cities · straight line
- Ranchi7 kmcapital
- Kolkata328 km
- Hyderabad964 km
- Delhi998 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationBalasiring4 km
- Bus stopITI Bus Stand9 km
- Hospital / PHCESIC Dhurwa2 km
- ATM / bankState Bank of India5 km
- Petrol pumpHP3 km
- CollegeInstitute of Science & Management6 km
- Police stationDhurwa Police Station2 km
Places of worship · within 5 km
Temples & shrines near Harser
4 Temples mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
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Villages near Harser
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View all 45+ →Sources & freshness
- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)