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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
Kulwinder Kaur
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- LGD code
- 30768
- Pincode
- 144224
- Post office
- Bhambotar
- Population
- 3,697
- Households
- 709
- Literacy rate
- 70.5%
- Sex ratio
- 927 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 1,092
Census 2011 · in context
How Bala (122) compares
By population, Bala (122) ranks #2 of 266 villages in Dasua mandal.
Literacy rate
%
70.5%
−4.8% vs mandal average
- Bala (122)
- 70.5%
- Dasua mandal
- 75.3%
- Hoshiarpur district
- 75.6%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
927
−59 vs mandal average
- Bala (122)
- 927
- Dasua mandal
- 986
Household size
people per home
5.2
+0.5 vs mandal average
- Bala (122)
- 5.2
- Dasua mandal
- 4.7
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bala (122) at a glance
Bala (122) is a village of 3,697 people in 709 households (Census 2011) in Dasua tehsil, Hoshiarpur district, Punjab, the 2nd-largest of 266 villages in Dasua tehsil. Literacy is 71%, 5 points below the tehsil average of 75% and the sex ratio is 927 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 144224, served by Bhambotar post office; the LGD village code is 30768. The sarpanch is Kulwinder Kaur. The population is estimated at 4,359 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Bala (122)
- LGD code
- 30768
- Pincode
- 144224
- Post office
- Bhambotar
- Population (Census 2011)
- 3,697
- Population (projected 2026)
- 4,359
- Households
- 709
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 927
- Literacy rate
- 70.5%
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- Kulwinder Kaur
- Block / Mandal
- Dasua
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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
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-18
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)