Salha
Areraj block · Purbi Champaran
district, Bihar · PIN 845425
· village code 218165
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 1,484 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 3,786 — 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
1,484
Male / female
786 / 698
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
888
Children aged 0–6
241
Literacy rate
52.6%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
57 / 0
Working population
352
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
54.0%
Households
246
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
No
Piped tap water
100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank
No
Primary health centre nearest 2 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
Yes
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
409
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
102
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
No
Farming
Farm households
209
Non-farm households
97
Share of households farming, 2020
68%
Net sown area
236 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
236 / 35 / 36
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Mura panchayat, Areraj 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
₹14.60 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹19.14 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹33.47 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹26,889
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹4.59 lakh · received ₹7.63 lakh · spent ₹12.21 lakh · left ₹578
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹10.01 lakh · received ₹11.52 lakh · spent ₹21.26 lakh · left ₹26,311
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
26.5586, 84.6636 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Purbi Champaran district ·
School
staffing across Purbi Champaran ·
…and across Bihar