About Giripani Village

Giripani is a small village in Maheshpur tehsil, in the district of Pakur, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 243, made up of 119 males and 124 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,042 females per 1000 males. The village covers 94.91 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 814111, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

Giripani Overview

Census 2011 figures for Giripani village
Description	Value
State	Jharkhand
District	Pakur
Tehsil	Maheshpur
Pincode	814111
Area (hectares)	94.91 hectares
Population	243
Male Population	119
Female Population	124
Sex Ratio (females per 1000 males)	1,042
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 Giripani compares

By the 2011 count Giripani is the 234th largest of the 305 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 656 residents. Its 94.91 hectares work out to about 2.6 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, a little above the tehsil average of 1012.

Getting to Giripani

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

Giripani lies about 29 km from Pakur, and the nearest railway station is Chatra, about 15 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 Giripani
Tehsil headquarters	Maheshpur	10 km
Nearest railway station	Chatra	15 km
Nearest town	Nalhāti	17 km
District headquarters	Pakur	29 km

Villages closest to Giripani

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Maheshpur 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 Giripani

As per the Census of India 2011, Giripani village had a population of 243. That makes it the 234th largest of the 305 villages in the tehsil, among the smaller settlements locally for the tehsil, where the typical village holds 656 residents.

Giripani village has 119 males and 124 females as recorded in the 2011 census.

Working from the 2011 counts, Giripani has about 1042 females for every 1000 males. In short, women outnumber men here, a little above the tehsil average of 1012.

The pincode recorded for Giripani is 814111. Large villages sometimes share a pincode with neighbouring settlements.

Giripani covers 94.91 hectares as recorded in the census. Against its 2011 population that is roughly 2.6 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads.

Giripani falls under Maheshpur tehsil of Pakur district in Jharkhand.

The nearest railway station to Giripani is Chatra, about 15 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 Giripani.

Giripani is about 29 km from Pakur in a straight line. Road distance is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again, depending on the route.

Giripani is in Maheshpur tehsil of Pakur district. Maheshpur is about 10 km away. Chatra is about 15 km away. Nalhāti is about 17 km away. Straight-line distances are a guide to how far out the village sits, not a driving figure.