Bara is a village in Nanoor mandal, Birbhum district, West Bengal, with a population of 2,448 across 553 households and a literacy rate of 53.9%. The village is located at 24.314°N, 87.966°E with postal code 731301.
By population, Bara ranks #23 of 136 villages in Nanoor mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bara is a village of 2,448 people in 553 households (Census 2011) in Nanoor block, Birbhum district, West Bengal, the 23rd-largest of 136 villages in Nanoor block. Literacy is 54%, 7 points below the block average of 61% and the sex ratio is 966 women per 1,000 men. It lies 51 km from the Birbhum district centre, 0 km from Bara, the nearest town, 1 km from Lohapur railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 731301, served by Ch.Nanoor post office; the LGD village code is 317666. The nearest hospital or health centre is Bhadrapur Hospital, 6 km away. The sarpanch is FALGUNI SAHA, and the village votes in Nanoor assembly constituency, represented by MLA Bidhan Chandra Majhi. The population is estimated at 2,886 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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