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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
BALJIT KAUR
Contact: 95****7594
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- LGD code
- 34130
- Pincode
- 142044
- Post office
- Makhu
- Population
- 260
- Households
- 58
- Literacy rate
- 51.5%
- Sex ratio
- 940 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 69
Census 2011 · in context
How Chamb (262) compares
By population, Chamb (262) ranks #115 of 149 villages in Dharamkot mandal.
Literacy rate
%
51.5%
−8.5% vs mandal average
- Chamb (262)
- 51.5%
- Dharamkot mandal
- 60.0%
- Moga district
- 63.1%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
940
+39 vs mandal average
- Chamb (262)
- 940
- Dharamkot mandal
- 901
Household size
people per home
4.5
−0.8 vs mandal average
- Chamb (262)
- 4.5
- Dharamkot mandal
- 5.3
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Chamb (262) at a glance
Chamb (262) is a village of 260 people in 58 households (Census 2011) in Dharamkot tehsil, Moga district, Punjab, the 115th-largest of 149 villages in Dharamkot tehsil. Literacy is 52%, 9 points below the tehsil average of 60% and the sex ratio is 940 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 142044, served by Makhu post office; the LGD village code is 34130. The sarpanch is BALJIT KAUR, and the village votes in Dharamkot assembly constituency, represented by MLA Devinderjeet Singh. The population is estimated at 307 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Chamb (262)
- LGD code
- 34130
- Pincode
- 142044
- Post office
- Makhu
- Population (Census 2011)
- 260
- Population (projected 2026)
- 307
- Households
- 58
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 940
- Literacy rate
- 51.5%
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Faridkot
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Dharamkot
- Member of Parliament
- Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Devinderjeet Singh
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- BALJIT KAUR
- Block / Mandal
- Dharamkot
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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, 2026-09-25
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)