Karma
Karakat block · Rohtas
district, Bihar · PIN 821310
· village code 251280
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 640 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 2,688 — 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
640
Male / female
343 / 297
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
866
Children aged 0–6
103
Literacy rate
60.9%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
280 / 0
Working population
205
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
92.2%
Households
94
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Van
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 1 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 km away
No
Anganwadi
No
Internet
No
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
52
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
17
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Boys
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
80
Non-farm households
30
Share of households farming, 2020
73%
Net sown area
39 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
39 / 32 / 2
Main irrigation source
Canals
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Sikaria panchayat, Karakat 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
₹17.25 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹18.74 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹33.84 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹2.15 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹10.74 lakh · received ₹7.47 lakh · spent ₹16.20 lakh · left ₹2.00 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹6.52 lakh · received ₹11.27 lakh · spent ₹17.63 lakh · left ₹15,431
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
25.0991, 84.3225 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Rohtas district ·
School
staffing across Rohtas ·
…and across Bihar