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Mapped via ECI-published constituency boundary (mandal centroid containment, Datameet)
Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
MANIBEN M DESAI
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- LGD code
- 511313
- Pincode
- 382315
- Post office
- Rakhial RS
- Population
- 826
- Households
- 184
- Literacy rate
- 71.2%
- Sex ratio
- 962 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 490
- Distance to district centre
- 192 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 138 km
- Distance to Gandhinagar
- 205 km
- Distance to Mumbai
- 349 km
- Nearest railway station
- Khijadiya Junction · 12 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Referal Hospital Babara · <1 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Babra compares
By population, Babra ranks #75 of 93 villages in Dehgam mandal.
Literacy rate
%
71.2%
+1.8% vs mandal average
- Babra
- 71.2%
- Dehgam mandal
- 69.4%
- Gandhinagar district
- 74.0%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
962
+11 vs mandal average
- Babra
- 962
- Dehgam mandal
- 951
Household size
people per home
4.5
−0.5 vs mandal average
- Babra
- 4.5
- Dehgam mandal
- 5.0
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Babra at a glance
Babra is a village of 826 people in 184 households (Census 2011) in Dehgam taluka, Gandhinagar district, Gujarat, the 75th-largest of 93 villages in Dehgam taluka. Literacy is 71%, 2 points above the taluka average of 69% and the sex ratio is 962 women per 1,000 men. It lies 192 km from the Gandhinagar district centre, 24 km from Atkot, the nearest town, 12 km from Khijadiya Junction railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 382315, served by Rakhial RS post office; the LGD village code is 511313. The nearest hospital or health centre is Referal Hospital Babara, <1 km away. The sarpanch is MANIBEN M DESAI, and the village votes in Sanand assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kanubhai Karamshibhai Patel. The population is estimated at 974 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Babra
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- Yes
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 24
- Power hours (winter)
- 24
- Primary school
- 2
- 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
- No
- 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
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- TALOD
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 15
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 42
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 20
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- BABRA
- Total area (ha)
- 529.45
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 75.68
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Babra
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Babra
- LGD code
- 511313
- Pincode
- 382315
- Post office
- Rakhial RS
- Population (Census 2011)
- 826
- Population (projected 2026)
- 974
- Households
- 184
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 962
- Literacy rate
- 71.2%
- Coordinates
- 21.84855°N, 71.30367°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Gandhinagar
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Sanand
- Member of Parliament
- Amit Shah
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Kanubhai Karamshibhai Patel
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- MANIBEN M DESAI
- Block / Mandal
- Dehgam
Getting there
How to reach Babra
Distance to cities · straight line
- Gandhinagar205 kmcapital
- Mumbai349 km
- Hyderabad901 km
- Delhi958 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationKhijadiya Junction12 km
- Hospital / PHCReferal Hospital Babara<1 km
- Petrol pumpBharat Petroleum17 km
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Sources & freshness
- 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, 2026-09-14
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)