Purainiya
Chawradano block · Purbi Champaran
district, Bihar · PIN 845301
· village code 217721
Population 2011
6,082
Census of India
Population 2020
6,708
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+10.3%
626 people · 1.1% a year
Households
1,175
+8.6% vs 1,082 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
6,082
Male / female
3,230 / 2,852
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
883
Children aged 0–6
1,178
Literacy rate
41.5%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
159 / 0
Working population
2,042
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
91.5%
Households
1,082
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 5 km away
No
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 10 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 10 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 10 km away
No
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
1,100
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
367
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
850
Non-farm households
175
Share of households farming, 2020
83%
Net sown area
316 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
306 / 316 / 26
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Purainiya panchayat, Chawradano 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
₹19.60 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹12.62 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹20.80 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹11.42 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹7.74 lakh · received ₹5.03 lakh · spent ₹12.27 lakh · left ₹49,742
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹11.86 lakh · received ₹7.59 lakh · spent ₹8.53 lakh · left ₹10.92 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.8108, 84.9521 —
view on OpenStreetMap
Nearby villages
Pokhra
compare · Puchhariya
compare · Punar Murgai Chak
compare · Punas
compare · Puran Chhapra
compare · Purandarpur
compare · Purandra
compare · Purnahia
compare
How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Purbi Champaran district ·
School
staffing across Purbi Champaran ·
…and across Bihar