Puraina
Thakrahan block · Pashchim Champaran
district, Bihar · PIN 845104
· village code 217032
Population 2011
602
Census of India
Population 2020
762
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+26.6%
160 people · 2.7% a year
Households
132
+26.9% vs 104 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
602
Male / female
323 / 279
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
864
Children aged 0–6
119
Literacy rate
33.2%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
4 / 7
Working population
350
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
90.3%
Households
104
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre
PHC
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
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
211
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
53
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
82
Non-farm households
24
Share of households farming, 2020
77%
Net sown area
1,500 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
1,500 / 1,500 / 607
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Harpur panchayat, Thakrahan 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
₹11.07 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹7.21 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹8.89 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹9.39 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹4.12 lakh · received ₹2.87 lakh · spent ₹3.62 lakh · left ₹3.37 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹6.95 lakh · received ₹4.34 lakh · spent ₹5.27 lakh · left ₹6.02 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.7748, 84.2591 —
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