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Poonch: Army Defuses Rusted Mortar Shell in Jammu and Kashmir Village
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- LGD code
- 1196
- Pincode
- 185211
- Post office
- Dharamsal Mendhar
- Population
- 1,742
- Households
- 313
- Literacy rate
- 50.6%
- Sex ratio
- 1047 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 186
Census 2011 · in context
How Topa compares
By population, Topa ranks #8 of 15 villages in Mankote mandal.
Literacy rate
%
50.6%
+2.5% vs mandal average
- Topa
- 50.6%
- Mankote mandal
- 48.1%
- Poonch district
- 54.9%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,047
+49 vs mandal average
- Topa
- 1,047
- Mankote mandal
- 998
Household size
people per home
5.6
Same as the mandal average
- Topa
- 5.6
- Mankote mandal
- 5.6
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Topa at a glance
Topa is a village of 1,742 people in 313 households (Census 2011) in Mankote tehsil, Poonch district, Jammu And Kashmir, the 8th-largest of 15 villages in Mankote tehsil. Literacy is 51%, 3 points above the tehsil average of 48% and the sex ratio is 1,047 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 185211, served by Dharamsal Mendhar post office; the LGD village code is 1196. The village votes in Budhal assembly constituency, represented by MLA Javaid Iqbal. The population is estimated at 2,054 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Topa
- LGD code
- 1196
- Pincode
- 185211
- Post office
- Dharamsal Mendhar
- Population (Census 2011)
- 1,742
- Population (projected 2026)
- 2,054
- Households
- 313
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1047
- Literacy rate
- 50.6%
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Anantnag-Rajouri
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Budhal
- Member of Parliament
- Mian Altaf Ahmed Larvi
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Javaid Iqbal
- Block / Mandal
- Mankote
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
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