Katahara

Masaliya block · Dumka district, Jharkhand · PIN 814146 · village code 372005

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 151 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 500 — 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

151

Male / female

72 / 79

Sex ratio females per 1,000 males

1,097

Children aged 0–6

Literacy rate

49.0%

Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe

0 / 16

Working population

Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour

63.8%

Households

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school

Yes

Middle school

Yes

High school nearest 2 km away

Piped tap water

<50% habitation covered

All-weather road

Yes

Public transport

Van

Electricity

8-12 Hrs

Bank

Yes

Primary health centre

PHC

Anganwadi

Yes

Internet

Yes

Common service centre

Separately located

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

112

Teachers

Students per teacher

Electricity

Yes

Toilets

Girls

Computer lab

Yes

Playground

Yes

Drinking water

Yes

Mid-day meal

Yes

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 / 0

Main irrigation source

Surface water

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Kunjbona panchayat, Masaliya 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

₹19.52 lakh

Received from state (auto-transfer)

₹12.08 lakh

Received directly

₹29,085

Spent

₹20.56 lakh

Unspent at year end

₹11.33 lakh

Untied (basic grant)

opened ₹10.05 lakh · received ₹4.83 lakh · spent ₹9.52 lakh · left ₹5.64 lakh

Tied (earmarked)

opened ₹9.47 lakh · received ₹7.25 lakh · spent ₹11.03 lakh · left ₹5.68 lakh

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

Location

24.1802, 87.0818 — view on OpenStreetMap

Nearby villages

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How this village compares

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