Kataha
Madhubani block · Pashchim Champaran
district, Bihar · PIN 845404
· village code 216986
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 1,820 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 6,217 — more than 2.5 times higher, which no village grows in nine years. One of the two is wrong and we cannot
tell which.
Census 2011
Total population
1,820
Male / female
934 / 886
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
949
Children aged 0–6
321
Literacy rate
43.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
85 / 28
Working population
693
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
93.8%
Households
288
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road nearest 10 km away
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 10 km away
No
Anganwadi nearest 2 km away
No
Internet
No
Common service centre
No CSC
The village primary school
These figures sit inside a single merged column of the Mission
Antyodaya file and are not published anywhere in readable form.
Students
411
Teachers
6
Students per teacher
69
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
No
Mid-day meal
No
Farming
Farm households
209
Non-farm households
57
Share of households farming, 2020
79%
Net sown area
40 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
40 / 33 / 10
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Tamkuha panchayat, Madhubani zila parishad.
These are the panchayat's own accounts, not this village's: where a panchayat
holds several villages, the money covers all of them, and where a village
spans several panchayats only this one's return appears.
Opening balance
₹25.34 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹13.08 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹24.48 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹13.94 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹11.24 lakh · received ₹5.21 lakh · spent ₹12.38 lakh · left ₹4.06 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹14.10 lakh · received ₹7.87 lakh · spent ₹12.09 lakh · left ₹9.87 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.9189, 84.0634 —
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