Sheikhpura, Bihar

Not a Scheduled AreaCensus 2011 district code 228

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Recent activity

16 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedBrick Earth Mining Project of M/s Mirzapur Ent Bhatta
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedNirpur Stone Mine (Block -18)
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedJamuara & Nirpur Stone Mine (Block -17)
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedMatokhar & Surdaspur Stone Mining Project Block No- 2
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedJamuara Stone Mine (Block -16)
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedSurdaspur Stone Mining Project (Block No. -7)
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedMatokhar & Surdaspur Stone Mining Project Block no. -6
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedMatokhar & Surdaspur Stone Mining Project Block No.8
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedMatokhar & Surdaspur Stone Mining Project Block No.5
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedMatokhar & Surdaspur Stone Mining Project Block No.4
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedHazratpur Madro-Chandi Stone Mining Project
16 Oct 2026 · DecidedTerms of Reference grantedMatokhar & Surdaspur Stone Mining Project Block No.3

Dated by the portal's own appraisal history, converted to India Standard Time; a proposal with no recorded history appears on its register submission date.

Other clearances these proposals declare

Forest land diversion declared: 0
Forest land sought for diversion: None declared
Wildlife board recommendation declared: 1
In or near a protected area: 0
In an eco-sensitive zone: 0

These counts are taken from the application forms of the 42 of 42 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. In 28 of those forms at least one question was left blank, and a blank answer is counted as unknown. The forest area is the area stated for forest clearance, with each forest proposal counted once, in the district where its project is primarily sited.

Proposals naming this district: 42
Category A proposals: 2
Families declared displaced: None declared
Families declared affected: None declared

Displacement figures are the proponents’ own declarations. A project sited across several districts declares one figure for the whole project, and that figure is counted once, in the district where the project is primarily sited. 2 of the proposals listed below declare displacement and are sited primarily in another district, so their figures are counted in that district’s total.

Fifth Schedule status

Not within a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area

No Presidential Order under paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule declares any Scheduled Area in Bihar, so no part of this district is one and PESA does not apply.

OrderMinistry of Tribal Affairs, Scheduled Areas declared under paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule to the Constitution

What the record shows

Agricultural labourers, who work other people's land for wages, make up 49% of workers here. Compensation for acquired land is paid to those who hold title to it, so it does not reach them. They can still claim the rehabilitation and resettlement entitlements of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR), because its section 3(c) counts a family whose livelihood depends on the land as an affected family, wherever that Act governs how the land is obtained.

Each of these observations appears when a fixed rule is met by the figures on this page, so the same figures always give the same sentences. None of them is a view on whether a project should go ahead.

Who lives there

Figures from Census 2011, each compared with the all-India value computed on the same definition.

Total population: 6,36,342
Households: 1,00,701
Average household size: 6.32; 1.47 above India's 4.85India
Scheduled Tribe share of population: 0.1%; 8.5 points below IndiaIndia
Scheduled Caste share of population: 20.6%; 4.0 points above IndiaIndia
Children aged 0-6: 19.1%; 5.5 points above IndiaIndia
Literacy rate: 63.9%; 9.1 points below IndiaIndia
Sex ratio: 930; 12.8 below India's 942.6India

What they live on

How the district's workers earn a living, from Census 2011. The land-dependent share counts cultivators and agricultural labourers as a share of all workers, and it is the group most directly affected when land is acquired.

Total workers: 2,24,655
Work participation rate: 35.3%; 4.5 points below IndiaIndia
Workers dependent on land: 73.1%; 18.5 points above IndiaIndia
Cultivators: 24.3%; 0.4 points below IndiaIndia
Agricultural labourers: 48.8%; 18.9 points above IndiaIndia
Marginal workers: 34.1%; 9.4 points above IndiaIndia
Household industry workers: 4.4%; 0.6 points above IndiaIndia

How households live

Land, income and work among rural households, from the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011, which recorded these where the population census did not. Only the survey's rural part is used here, so urban households do not appear.

Rural households owning land: 34.8%; 11.3 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households whose highest earner makes over ₹5,000 a month: 31.0%; 6.7 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households living mainly on manual casual labour: 68.1%; 16.4 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households with a salaried member: 5.7%; 2.6 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.

When these were filed

Each proposal is dated by the first step in its appraisal history, the dated record of steps the portal keeps for it.

2025-Q12026-Q3

The timeline counts all 42 proposals here, since each one records the date it was first filed.

What kind of projects these are

The proposals naming this district, grouped by the sector each was filed under.

Non-Coal Mining 92.9%
INFRA-1 4.8%
INFRA-2 2.4%

The four largest sectors are shown by name and the rest are grouped as Other.

What is proposed here

These are the proposals in the national environmental clearance register whose application names a site in this district, newest first. A project with sites in several districts appears under each of them.

All 42 proposals that name this district, newest first.

Showing the first 42 of 42 proposals. The rest load in the browser, and with scripting turned off they can be read from bihar.json under /data/instruments/consent/projects/.