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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Birendra Munda
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- LGD code
- 373617
- Pincode
- 834001
- Post office
- Church Road
- Population
- 805
- Households
- 159
- Literacy rate
- 65.5%
- Sex ratio
- 917 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 317
Census 2011 · in context
How Palu compares
By population, Palu ranks #39 of 90 villages in Ormanjhi mandal.
Literacy rate
%
65.5%
+8.8% vs mandal average
- Palu
- 65.5%
- Ormanjhi mandal
- 56.7%
- Ranchi district
- 65.6%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
917
−30 vs mandal average
- Palu
- 917
- Ormanjhi mandal
- 947
Household size
people per home
5.1
−0.1 vs mandal average
- Palu
- 5.1
- Ormanjhi mandal
- 5.2
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Palu at a glance
Palu is a village of 805 people in 159 households (Census 2011) in Ormanjhi block, Ranchi district, Jharkhand, the 39th-largest of 90 villages in Ormanjhi block. Literacy is 66%, 9 points above the block average, and the sex ratio is 917 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 834001, served by Church Road post office; the LGD village code is 373617. The sarpanch is Birendra Munda, and the village votes in Ramgarh assembly constituency, represented by Mamta Devi. The population is estimated at 949 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Chutupalu →
Key facts — Palu
- LGD code
- 373617
- Pincode
- 834001
- Post office
- Church Road
- Population (Census 2011)
- 805
- Population (projected 2026)
- 949
- Households
- 159
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 917
- Literacy rate
- 65.5%
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Hazaribagh
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Ramgarh
- Member of Parliament
- Manish Jaiswal
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Mamta Devi
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Birendra Munda
- Block / Mandal
- Ormanjhi
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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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