Dostia
Motihari block · Purbi Champaran
district, Bihar · PIN 845302
· village code 217928
Population 2011
2,659
Census of India
Population 2020
2,988
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+12.4%
329 people · 1.3% a year
Households
634
+31.8% vs 481 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
2,659
Male / female
1,433 / 1,226
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
856
Children aged 0–6
529
Literacy rate
25.0%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
0 / 0
Working population
1,196
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
93.0%
Households
481
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 2 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
Common service centre
Colocated with Panchayat Bhawan
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
370
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
93
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
315
Non-farm households
205
Share of households farming, 2020
61%
Net sown area
123 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
123 / 66 / 102
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Barwa panchayat, Motihari 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
₹33.74 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹22.26 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹54.50 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹1.50 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹14.46 lakh · received ₹8.87 lakh · spent ₹22.29 lakh · left ₹1.04 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹19.27 lakh · received ₹13.39 lakh · spent ₹32.21 lakh · left ₹45,162
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.7552, 84.9774 —
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