About Akalbani Village

Akalbani is a mid sized village in Meral tehsil, in the district of Garhwa, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,522, made up of 790 males and 732 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 927 females per 1000 males. The village covers 264.8 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 822114, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Akalbani compares

By the 2011 count Akalbani is the 26th largest of the 74 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 1,757 residents. Its 264.8 hectares work out to about 5.7 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, a little below the tehsil average of 953.

Getting to Akalbani

Akalbani is well connected by rural standards, with buses in the village itself and a railway station close by. The census records public bus service for Akalbani as Available within 10+ km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Akalbani from other places

Akalbani lies about 8.1 km from Garhwa, and the nearest railway station is Meralgram, about 2.8 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.

Villages closest to Akalbani

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

• Bankheta under 2 km
• Kumbhi 1.8 km
• Meral 2.5 km
• Baghauta 2.7 km
• Arangi 3.3 km
• Korkoma 3.9 km

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.