Sahijanwa Khurd

Kataiya block · Gopalganj district, Bihar · PIN 841437 · village code 229857

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 730 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 1,875 — 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

730

Male / female

335 / 395

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,179

Children aged 0–6

120

Literacy rate

60.3%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

34 / 147

Working population

292

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

42.8%

Households

141

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school nearest 2 km away

High school nearest 5 km away

Piped tap water

50 to 100% habitations covered

All-weather road nearest 2 km away

Public transport

Auto

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 5 km away

Primary health centre nearest 5 km away

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

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

146

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

189

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

93%

Net sown area

60 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

60 / 58 / 1

Main irrigation source

Canals

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Ameya panchayat, Kateya 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

₹12.41 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹17.31 lakh

Received directly

—

Spent

₹24.28 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹5.44 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹2.97 lakh · received ₹6.90 lakh · spent ₹5.86 lakh · left ₹4.00 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹9.45 lakh · received ₹10.41 lakh · spent ₹18.42 lakh · left ₹1.44 lakh

Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied together make up the totals above.

Location

26.6322, 84.1557 — view on OpenStreetMap

Nearby villages

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How this village compares

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