Kandra

Chas block · Bokaro district, Jharkhand · PIN 827013 · village code 362627

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 8,352 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 1,325 — a drop of more than 40%. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population

8,352

Male / female

4,355 / 3,997

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

918

Children aged 0–6

1,254

Literacy rate

64.4%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

1,212 / 120

Working population

2,165

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

30.9%

Households

1,460

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school nearest 2 km away

Piped tap water nearest 1 km away

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Auto

Electricity

8-12 Hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre nearest 5 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

450

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Both

Computer lab

Playground

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Farming

Farm households

Non-farm households

Share of households farming, 2020

83%

Net sown area

1 ha

Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column

1 / 1 / 1

Main irrigation source

Other

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Kandra 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

₹15.86 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹6.58 lakh

Received directly

—

Spent

₹11.96 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹10.47 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹7.35 lakh · received ₹2.63 lakh · spent ₹2.11 lakh · left ₹7.87 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹8.51 lakh · received ₹3.95 lakh · spent ₹9.86 lakh · left ₹2.60 lakh

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

Location

23.8018, 86.0780 — view on OpenStreetMap

Nearby villages

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How this village compares

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