About Pochra Village

Pochra is a mid sized village in Mandu tehsil, in the district of Ramgarh, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,486, made up of 765 males and 721 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 942 females per 1000 males. The village covers 208 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 823101, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Pochra compares

By the 2011 count Pochra is the 34th largest of the 69 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 1,925 residents. Its 208 hectares work out to about 7.1 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, a little below the tehsil average of 972.

Getting to Pochra

Pochra 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 Pochra 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 <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Pochra from other places

Pochra lies about 5.2 km from Ramgarh, and the nearest railway station is Digwar Halt, about 1.8 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 Pochra

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

• Hathimara under 2 km
• Digwar under 2 km
• Seota 1.9 km
• Painki 2.3 km
• Burhakhap 2.7 km
• Bongabar 3.3 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.