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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
MS
Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Manpreet Singh
Contact: 99****6589
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- LGD code
- 27862
- Pincode
- 143531
- Post office
- Dinanagar
- Population
- 276
- Households
- 52
- Literacy rate
- 74.6%
- Sex ratio
- 1029 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 80
Census 2011 · in context
How Bara (299) compares
By population, Bara (299) ranks #172 of 238 villages in Dinanagar mandal.
Literacy rate
%
74.6%
+3.9% vs mandal average
- Bara (299)
- 74.6%
- Dinanagar mandal
- 70.7%
- Gurdaspur district
- 71.1%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
1,029
+91 vs mandal average
- Bara (299)
- 1,029
- Dinanagar mandal
- 938
Household size
people per home
5.3
+0.1 vs mandal average
- Bara (299)
- 5.3
- Dinanagar mandal
- 5.2
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bara (299) at a glance
Bara (299) is a village of 276 people in 52 households (Census 2011) in Dinanagar tehsil, Gurdaspur district, Punjab, the 172nd-largest of 238 villages in Dinanagar tehsil. Literacy is 75%, 4 points above the tehsil average of 71% and the sex ratio is 1,029 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 143531, served by Dinanagar post office; the LGD village code is 27862. The sarpanch is Manpreet Singh. The population is estimated at 325 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Bara (299)
- LGD code
- 27862
- Pincode
- 143531
- Post office
- Dinanagar
- Population (Census 2011)
- 276
- Population (projected 2026)
- 325
- Households
- 52
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 1029
- Literacy rate
- 74.6%
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Manpreet Singh
- Block / Mandal
- Dinanagar
Same pincode
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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, 2026-09-19
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)