Balar
Rafiganj block · Aurangabad
district, Bihar · PIN 824125
· village code 253214
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 2,822 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 29,013 — 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
2,822
Male / female
1,512 / 1,310
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
866
Children aged 0–6
509
Literacy rate
54.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
352 / 0
Working population
1,170
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
69.7%
Households
430
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water
50 to 100% habitations covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre
Sub Centre
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
580
Teachers
21
Students per teacher
28
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
353
Non-farm households
95
Share of households farming, 2020
79%
Net sown area
130 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
130 / 105 / 2
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Balar panchayat, Rafiganj 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
₹27.01 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹17.84 lakh
Received directly
—
Spent
₹25.98 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹18.87 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹16.05 lakh · received ₹7.11 lakh · spent ₹12.44 lakh · left ₹10.72 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹10.96 lakh · received ₹10.73 lakh · spent ₹13.54 lakh · left ₹8.15 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
24.7568, 84.7037 —
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Aurangabad district ·
School
staffing across Aurangabad ·
…and across Bihar