About Luta Village

Luta is a small village in Shaligram Ram Narayanpur tehsil, in the district of Chatra, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 238, made up of 127 males and 111 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 874 females per 1000 males. The village covers 1022 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 825401, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Luta Overview

Census 2011 figures for Luta village
Description	Value
State	Jharkhand
District	Chatra
Tehsil	Shaligram Ram Narayanpur
Pincode	825401
Area (hectares)	1022 hectares
Population	238
Male Population	127
Female Population	111
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	874
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 Luta compares

By the 2011 count Luta is the 162nd largest of the 231 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 758 residents. Its 1022 hectares work out to about 0.2 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 962.

Getting to Luta

Luta is fairly remote, with both bus and rail more than ten kilometres away. The census records public bus service for Luta 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 Luta from other places

Luta lies about 20 km from Chatra, and the nearest railway station is Kathautia, about 42 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 Luta
Tehsil headquarters	Shaligram Ram Narayanpur	20 km
District headquarters	Chatra	20 km
Nearest town	Chatrā	20 km
Nearest railway station	Kathautia	42 km

Villages closest to Luta

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 Luta

As per the Census of India 2011, Luta village had a population of 238. That makes it the 162nd largest of the 231 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 758 residents.

Luta village has 127 males and 111 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Luta has about 874 females for every 1000 males. In short, the shortfall of women against men is wide, well below the tehsil average of 962.

The pincode recorded for Luta is 825401. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Luta covers 1022 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 0.2 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited.

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

The nearest railway station to Luta is Kathautia, about 42 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 Luta.

Luta is about 20 km from Chatra in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Luta is in Shaligram Ram Narayanpur tehsil of Chatra district. Shaligram Ram Narayanpur is about 20 km away. Chatra is about 20 km away. Chatrā is about 20 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.