By population, Kurkura ranks #5 of 19 villages in Bansjor mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kurkura is a village of 2,003 people in 357 households (Census 2011) in Bansjor block, Simdega district, Jharkhand, the 5th-largest of 19 villages in Bansjor block. Literacy is 45%, 7 points below the block average, and the sex ratio is 1,034 women per 1,000 men. It lies 32 km from the Simdega district centre, 46 km from Sisai, the nearest town, 1 km from Kurkura railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 835201, served by Bano post office; the LGD village code is 376748. The nearest hospital or health centre is Primary Health Sub Centre, Sarita, 7 km away. The sarpanch is ROSHNI KULLU, and the village votes in Kolebira assembly constituency, represented by Naman Bixal Kongari. The population is estimated at 2,362 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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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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