Arai
Sonaraithari block · Deoghar
district, Jharkhand · PIN 814150
· village code 354111
Population 2011
128
Census of India
Population 2020
189
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+47.7%
61 people · 4.4% a year
Households
35
+29.6% vs 27 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
128
Male / female
62 / 66
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,065
Children aged 0–6
33
Literacy rate
34.4%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
79 / 0
Working population
63
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
61.9%
Households
27
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 5 km away
No
High school nearest 2 km away
No
Piped tap water
<50% habitation covered
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 2 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 km away
No
Anganwadi nearest 1 km away
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
122
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
41
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
No
Mid-day meal
No
Farming
Farm households
30
Non-farm households
5
Share of households farming, 2020
86%
Net sown area
15 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
12 / 15 / 5
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Dondiya panchayat, Sonaraithari 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
₹13.70 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹10.22 lakh
Received directly
₹29,303
Spent
₹17.72 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹6.50 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹6.40 lakh · received ₹4.09 lakh · spent ₹10.49 lakh · left ₹29,341
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹7.29 lakh · received ₹6.13 lakh · spent ₹7.23 lakh · left ₹6.20 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
24.3604, 86.9087 —
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