By population, Ghaghra ranks #28 of 100 villages in Manoharpur mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Ghaghra is a village of 873 people in 183 households (Census 2011) in Manoharpur block, West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand, the 28th-largest of 100 villages in Manoharpur block. Literacy is 54%, 8 points above the block average of 46% and the sex ratio is 949 women per 1,000 men. It lies 52 km from the West Singhbhum district centre, 22 km from Tamar, the nearest town, 24 km from Chakradharpur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 833104, served by Manoharpur (West Singhbhum) post office; the LGD village code is 377811. The nearest hospital or health centre is Kalyan Hospital, 21 km away. The sarpanch is ASHOK KUMAR BANDA. The population is estimated at 1,029 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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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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