Kobwa

Wazirganj block · Gaya district, Bihar · PIN 805131 · village code 256766

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 914 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 2,508 — 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

914

Male / female

480 / 434

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

904

Children aged 0–6

144

Literacy rate

60.6%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

255 / 0

Working population

341

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

90.3%

Households

121

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school nearest 5 km away

Piped tap water

<50% habitation covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Auto

Electricity

>12 hrs

Bank nearest 2 km away

Primary health centre nearest 10 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

150

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

140

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

85%

Net sown area

255 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

255 / 255 / 15

Main irrigation source

Other

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Nawada panchayat, Wazirganj 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

₹27.65 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹18.74 lakh

Received directly

₹79,350

Spent

₹35.92 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹11.27 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹6.75 lakh · received ₹7.47 lakh · spent ₹11.52 lakh · left ₹3.49 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹20.91 lakh · received ₹11.27 lakh · spent ₹24.40 lakh · left ₹7.78 lakh

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

Location

24.8108, 85.1376 — view on OpenStreetMap

Nearby villages

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How this village compares

Biggest population changes in Gaya district · School staffing across Gaya · …and across Bihar