About Chehal Village

Chehal is a mid sized village in Jainagar tehsil, in the district of Kodarma, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,613, made up of 832 males and 781 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 939 females per 1000 males. The village covers 166 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 825324, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Chehal compares

By the 2011 count Chehal is the 25th largest of the 111 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little above average, where the typical village holds 1,175 residents. Its 166 hectares work out to about 9.7 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, much in line with the tehsil average of 940.

Getting to Chehal

Chehal 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 Chehal 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 Chehal from other places

Chehal lies about 91 km from Kodarma, and the nearest railway station is Barkakana Junction, about 3.4 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 Chehal

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

• Jhalakdih 7.7 km
• Baghmara 10 km
• Dharaidih 10 km
• Karnosaran 10 km
• Katharatanr 10 km
• Mahesh Marai 10 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.