Chaugain is a village and corresponding

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Buxar district Buxar district is one of the 38 districts of Bihar, India. Located in the southwestern part of the state, it is a primarily agricultural district. The district headquarters is at the town of Buxar. Buxar district was carved out from Bhojpur d ...

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. As of 2011, the population of Chaugain was 12,611, in 2,124 households, while the total population of Chaugain block was 48,743, in 7,929 households.

Notable people

Amrendra Pratap Singh Amrendra Pratap Singh is an Indian politician and a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly serving as a minister in the Government of Bihar. He is the son of Harihar Singh, the former Chief Minister of Bihar. Early and personal life Sin ...

* Basant Singh (ex MLA Dumraon and Minister in Rabri Devi govt) *

Mrigendra Pratap Singh Mrigendra Pratap Singh was an Indian politician who served as Speaker and Member of Jharkhand Legislative Assembly from Jamshedpur West Assembly constituency and Minister of Finance in Cabinet of Jharkhand. Personal life He was the child of ...

Demographics

Chaugain is a rural block, with no large urban centres. The

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of the block was 948 as of 2011, with a ratio of 939 in the 0-6 age bracket at the time. Members of scheduled castes made up 16.02% of the block population, and members of scheduled tribes made up 0.61%. The

literacy rate Literacy is the ability to read and write, while illiteracy refers to an inability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was ...

of Chaugain block was 69.43%, including 80.89% among men and 57.27% among women. Most workers in Chaugain worked in

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in 2011, with 29.69% being cultivators who owned or leased their own land and a further 55.02% being agricultural labourers who worked someone else's land for wages. 2.29% were household industry workers, and the remaining 13.01% were other workers.

Villages

There are 23 villages in Chaugain block, 20 of which are inhabited and 3 of which are uninhabited.

References

{{Reflist Villages in Buxar district