About Akta Village

Akta is a small village in Shaligram Ram Narayanpur tehsil, in the district of Chatra, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 63, made up of 30 males and 33 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,100 females per 1000 males. The village covers 91 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 825420, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Akta Overview

Census 2011 figures for Akta village
Description	Value
State	Jharkhand
District	Chatra
Tehsil	Shaligram Ram Narayanpur
Pincode	825420
Area (hectares)	91 hectares
Population	63
Male Population	30
Female Population	33
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	1,100
Bus Service (public)	Available within 10+ km distance
Bus Service (private)	Available within 10+ km distance
Nearest Railway Station	Available within 10+ km distance

How Akta compares

By the 2011 count Akta is the 210th largest of the 231 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 758 residents. Its 91 hectares work out to about 0.7 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 962.

Getting to Akta

Akta is fairly remote, with both bus and rail more than ten kilometres away. The census records public bus service for Akta as Available within 10+ km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 10+ km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within 10+ km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Akta from other places

Akta lies about 22 km from Chatra, and the nearest railway station is Guraru, about 50 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Distances from Akta
Nearest town	Sherghāti	22 km
Tehsil headquarters	Shaligram Ram Narayanpur	22 km
District headquarters	Chatra	22 km
Nearest railway station	Guraru	50 km

Villages closest to Akta

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Shaligram Ram Narayanpur tehsil.

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.

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Common questions about Akta

As per the Census of India 2011, Akta village had a population of 63. That makes it the 210th largest of the 231 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 758 residents.

Akta village has 30 males and 33 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Akta has about 1100 females for every 1000 males. In short, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 962.

The pincode recorded for Akta is 825420. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Akta covers 91 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 0.7 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

Akta falls under Shaligram Ram Narayanpur tehsil of Chatra district in Jharkhand.

The nearest railway station to Akta is Guraru, about 50 km away in a straight line. The 2011 census recorded it as available within 10+ km distance.

The census records public bus service as Available within 10+ km distance and private bus service as Available within 10+ km distance for Akta.

Akta is about 22 km from Chatra in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Akta is in Shaligram Ram Narayanpur tehsil of Chatra district. Sherghāti is about 22 km away. Shaligram Ram Narayanpur is about 22 km away. Chatra is about 22 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.