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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
Kota is a village in Nagri mandal, Ranchi district, Jharkhand, with a population of 1,244 distributed across 207 households. The village has a literacy rate of 57.2% and is located at 23.116°N, 85.537°E under postal code 834001.
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Archana Toppo
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- LGD code
- 374129
- Pincode
- 834001
- Post office
- Church Road
- Population
- 1,244
- Households
- 207
- Literacy rate
- 57.2%
- Sex ratio
- 978 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 711
- Distance to district centre
- 58 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 57 km
- Distance to Ranchi
- 34 km
- Distance to Kolkata
- 296 km
- Nearest railway station
- Gangaghat · 27 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Bundu Municipal Hospital · 8 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Kota compares
By population, Kota ranks #18 of 45 villages in Nagri mandal.
Literacy rate
%
57.2%
−3.1% vs mandal average
- Kota
- 57.2%
- Nagri mandal
- 60.3%
- Ranchi district
- 65.6%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
978
−5 vs mandal average
- Kota
- 978
- Nagri mandal
- 983
Household size
people per home
6.0
+0.8 vs mandal average
- Kota
- 6.0
- Nagri mandal
- 5.2
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kota at a glance
Kota is a village of 1,244 people in 207 households (Census 2011) in Nagri block, Ranchi district, Jharkhand, the 18th-largest of 45 villages in Nagri block. Literacy is 57%, 3 points below the block average of 60% and the sex ratio is 978 women per 1,000 men. It lies 58 km from the Ranchi district centre, 14 km from Tamar, the nearest town, 27 km from Gangaghat railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 834001, served by Church Road post office; the LGD village code is 374129. The nearest hospital or health centre is Bundu Municipal Hospital, 8 km away. The sarpanch is Archana Toppo, and the village votes in Gomia assembly constituency, represented by MLA Yogendra Prasad. The population is estimated at 1,467 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Kota
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- No
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- No
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 0
- Power hours (winter)
- 0
- Primary school
- 0
- Middle school
- 0
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 0
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- No
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- No
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- No
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- RANCHI
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 15
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 18
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 18
- All-weather road
- No
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- LALGUTWA
- Total area (ha)
- 202
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 0
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Kota
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Kota
- LGD code
- 374129
- Pincode
- 834001
- Post office
- Church Road
- Population (Census 2011)
- 1,244
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,467
- Households
- 207
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 978
- Literacy rate
- 57.2%
- Coordinates
- 23.11650°N, 85.53653°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Giridih
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Gomia
- Member of Parliament
- Chandra Prakash Choudhary
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Yogendra Prasad
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Archana Toppo
- Block / Mandal
- Nagri
Getting there
How to reach Kota
Distance to cities · straight line
- Ranchi34 kmcapital
- Kolkata296 km
- Hyderabad973 km
- Delhi1033 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationGangaghat27 km
- Hospital / PHCBundu Municipal Hospital8 km
- ATM / bankSBI & ATM27 km
- Petrol pumpJio BP Petroleum22 km
- CollegeKIM ground24 km
- Police stationPolice Station Kharsidag23 km
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
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