About Okraha Village

Okraha is a mid sized village in Chhatarpur tehsil, in the district of Palamu, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,270, made up of 622 males and 648 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,042 females per 1000 males. The village covers 501 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 822113, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Okraha compares

By the 2011 count Okraha is the 40th largest of the 127 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little above average, where the typical village holds 1,137 residents. Its 501 hectares work out to about 2.5 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 912.

Getting to Okraha

Okraha 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 Okraha as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within village. The nearest villages by name are Masihani, Munkeri, Murumdag and Naso. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

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.