Meral Population - Khunti, Jharkhand

Meral is a medium size village located in Murhu Block of Khunti district, Jharkhand with total 86 families residing. The Meral village has population of 390 of which 207 are males while 183 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Meral village population of children with age 0-6 is 54 which makes up 13.85 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Meral village is 884 which is lower than Jharkhand state average of 948. Child Sex Ratio for the Meral as per census is 929, lower than Jharkhand average of 948.

Meral village has higher literacy rate compared to Jharkhand. In 2011, literacy rate of Meral village was 78.87 % compared to 66.41 % of Jharkhand. In Meral Male literacy stands at 87.15 % while female literacy rate was 69.43 %.

As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Meral village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Meral village.

Meral Data

Particulars	Total	Male	Female
Total No. of Houses	86	-	-
Population	390	207	183
Child (0-6)	54	28	26
Schedule Caste	0	0	0
Schedule Tribe	174	85	89
Literacy	78.87 %	87.15 %	69.43 %
Total Workers	208	105	103
Main Worker	7	-	-
Marginal Worker	201	98	103

Caste Factor

In Meral village, most of the village population is from Schedule Tribe (ST). Schedule Tribe (ST) constitutes 44.62 % of total population in Meral village. There is no population of Schedule Caste (SC) in Meral village of Khunti.

Work Profile

In Meral village out of total population, 208 were engaged in work activities. 3.37 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 96.63 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 208 workers engaged in Main Work, 0 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 0 were Agricultural labourer.