Sijhua
Chas block · Bokaro
district, Jharkhand · PIN 827013
· village code 362610
The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change
is shown. Census 2011 recorded 3,566 people; Mission Antyodaya
2020 recorded 1,472 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot
tell which.
Census 2011
Total population
3,566
Male / female
1,907 / 1,659
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
870
Children aged 0–6
556
Literacy rate
59.1%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
211 / 1,115
Working population
1,086
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
28.4%
Households
686
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school nearest 5 km away
No
High school nearest 5 km away
No
Piped tap water nearest 5 km away
No
All-weather road nearest 1 km away
No
Public transport
Auto
Electricity
4-8 Hrs
Bank nearest 2 km away
No
Primary health centre
PHC
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
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
250
Teachers
4
Students per teacher
63
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
No
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes
Farming
Farm households
206
Non-farm households
75
Share of households farming, 2020
73%
Net sown area
19 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
19 / 9 / 3
Main irrigation source
Surface water
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Mirdha panchayat, Chas 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
₹18.85 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹11.32 lakh
Received directly
₹10,284
Spent
₹11.85 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹18.42 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹11.05 lakh · received ₹4.53 lakh · spent ₹12,000 · left ₹15.56 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹7.79 lakh · received ₹6.79 lakh · spent ₹11.73 lakh · left ₹2.85 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
23.5135, 86.2028 —
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Nearby villages
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How this village compares
Biggest
population changes in Bokaro district ·
School
staffing across Bokaro ·
…and across Jharkhand