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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Prabhaben
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- LGD code
- 512188
- Pincode
- 363775
- Population
- 989
- Households
- 209
- Literacy rate
- 65.5%
- Sex ratio
- 1073 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 517
- Distance to district centre
- 184 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 135 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 #36 of 43 villages in Lakhtar mandal.
Literacy rate
%
65.5%
+5.1% vs mandal average
- Kalam
- 65.5%
- Lakhtar mandal
- 60.4%
- Surendranagar district
- 62.3%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,073
+131 vs mandal average
- Kalam
- 1,073
- Lakhtar mandal
- 942
Household size
people per home
4.7
−0.5 vs mandal average
- Kalam
- 4.7
- Lakhtar mandal
- 5.2
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Kalam at a glance
Kalam is a village of 989 people in 209 households (Census 2011) in Lakhtar taluka, Surendranagar district, Gujarat, the 36th-largest of 43 villages in Lakhtar taluka. Literacy is 66%, 5 points above the taluka average of 60% and the sex ratio is 1,073 women per 1,000 men. It lies 184 km from the Surendranagar district centre, 27 km from Olpad, the nearest town, 13 km from Panoli railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 363775; the LGD village code is 512188. The nearest hospital or health centre is Kaka Ba Hospital, 5 km away. The sarpanch is Prabhaben, and the village votes in Dhandhuka assembly constituency, represented by MLA Kalubhai Rupabhai Dabhi. The population is estimated at 1,166 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
- No
- Mandi / regular market
- No
- Weekly haat
- No
- Nearest statutory town
- WADHWAN
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 27
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 36
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 10
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- KALAM
- Total area (ha)
- 1,255.74
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 0
- Forest area (ha)
- 0
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
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Key facts — Kalam
- LGD code
- 512188
- Pincode
- 363775
- Population (Census 2011)
- 989
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,166
- Households
- 209
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1073
- Literacy rate
- 65.5%
- Coordinates
- 21.55742°N, 72.85890°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Surendranagar
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Dhandhuka
- Member of Parliament
- Chandubhai Shihora
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Kalubhai Rupabhai Dabhi
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Prabhaben
- Block / Mandal
- Lakhtar
- Nearest railway station
- Tagdi (124.7 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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View all 42+ →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
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