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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
SATISHKUMAR THAKORBHAI VASAVA
Contact: 96****7164
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- LGD code
- 522407
- Pincode
- 393030
- Post office
- Hansot
- Population
- 692
- Households
- 158
- Literacy rate
- 62.3%
- Sex ratio
- 1053 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 377
- Distance to district centre
- 57 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 22 km
- Distance to Gandhinagar
- 186 km
- Distance to Mumbai
- 276 km
- Nearest railway station
- Panoli · 13 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Kaka Ba Hospital · 5 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Kalam compares
By population, Kalam ranks #33 of 45 villages in Hansot mandal.
Literacy rate
%
62.3%
−9.6% vs mandal average
- Kalam
- 62.3%
- Hansot mandal
- 71.9%
- Bharuch district
- 72.1%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,053
+105 vs mandal average
- Kalam
- 1,053
- Hansot mandal
- 948
Household size
people per home
4.4
−0.1 vs mandal average
- Kalam
- 4.4
- Hansot mandal
- 4.5
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kalam at a glance
Kalam is a village of 692 people in 158 households (Census 2011) in Hansot taluka, Bharuch district, Gujarat, the 33rd-largest of 45 villages in Hansot taluka. Literacy is 62%, 10 points below the taluka average of 72% and the sex ratio is 1,053 women per 1,000 men. It lies 57 km from the Bharuch district centre, 27 km from Olpad, the nearest town, 13 km from Panoli railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 393030, served by Hansot post office; the LGD village code is 522407. The nearest hospital or health centre is Kaka Ba Hospital, 5 km away. The sarpanch is SATISHKUMAR THAKORBHAI VASAVA, and the village votes in Bharuch assembly constituency, represented by MLA Rameshbhai Narandas Mistry. The population is estimated at 816 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Kalam
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- Yes
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- No
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 24
- Power hours (winter)
- 24
- Primary school
- 1
- Middle school
- 0
- Secondary school
- 0
- Senior secondary
- 0
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 0
- Health sub-centre
- 0
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 0
- Post office
- No
- Sub post office
- Yes
- Commercial bank
- No
- Cooperative bank
- No
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- Yes
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- No
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- ANKLESVAR
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 21
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 35
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 3
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- KALAM
- Total area (ha)
- 447.04
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 365
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Kalam
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Key facts — Kalam
- LGD code
- 522407
- Pincode
- 393030
- Post office
- Hansot
- Population (Census 2011)
- 692
- Population (projected 2026)
- 816
- Households
- 158
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1053
- Literacy rate
- 62.3%
- Coordinates
- 21.55742°N, 72.85890°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Bharuch
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Bharuch
- Member of Parliament
- Mansukhbhai Vasava
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Rameshbhai Narandas Mistry
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- SATISHKUMAR THAKORBHAI VASAVA
- Block / Mandal
- Hansot
- Nearest PHC
- Faiz Clinic (19.8 km)
- Nearest bank
- State Bank of India (19.6 km)
- Nearest railway station
- Tham (21.9 km)
Getting there
How to reach Kalam
Distance to cities · straight line
- Gandhinagar186 kmcapital
- Mumbai276 km
- Hyderabad750 km
- Delhi898 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationPanoli13 km
- Bus stopBharuch ST Bus Stand22 km
- Hospital / PHCKaka Ba Hospital5 km
- ATM / bankState Bank of India20 km
- Petrol pumpFuel15 km
- CollegeShri K J Polytechnic23 km
- Police stationChowk Bazar Police Station (Furja)40 km
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-09
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
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