Barajar

Egarkund block · Dhanbad district, Jharkhand · PIN 828207 · village code 362171

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 608 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 287 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

608

Male / female

295 / 313

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,061

Children aged 0–6

Literacy rate

45.6%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

0 / 245

Working population

208

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

9.6%

Households

112

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school nearest 2 km away

High school

Yes

Piped tap water

<50% habitation covered

All-weather road

Public transport

Auto

Electricity

8-12 Hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre nearest 2 km away

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

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

Farming

Farm households

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

67%

Net sown area

0 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

0 / 0 / 0

Main irrigation source

Other

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Kalipahari East panchayat, Egarkund 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

₹10.60 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹9.15 lakh

Received directly

₹30,355

Spent

₹12.63 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹7.42 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹3.80 lakh · received ₹3.66 lakh · spent ₹4.37 lakh · left ₹3.39 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹6.80 lakh · received ₹5.49 lakh · spent ₹8.25 lakh · left ₹4.03 lakh

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

Location

23.7658, 86.8219 — view on OpenStreetMap

Nearby villages

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How this village compares

Biggest population changes in Dhanbad district · School staffing across Dhanbad · …and across Jharkhand