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Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
JASWANT SINGH
Contact: 99****4937
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- LGD code
- 34088
- Pincode
- 142043
- Post office
- Kot Ise Khan
- Population
- 1,314
- Households
- 263
- Literacy rate
- 64.2%
- Sex ratio
- 938 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 457
Census 2011 · in context
How Mehal (178) compares
By population, Mehal (178) ranks #45 of 149 villages in Dharamkot mandal.
Literacy rate
%
64.2%
+4.2% vs mandal average
- Mehal (178)
- 64.2%
- Dharamkot mandal
- 60.0%
- Moga district
- 63.1%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
938
+37 vs mandal average
- Mehal (178)
- 938
- Dharamkot mandal
- 901
Household size
people per home
5.0
−0.3 vs mandal average
- Mehal (178)
- 5.0
- Dharamkot mandal
- 5.3
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Mehal (178) at a glance
Mehal (178) is a village of 1,314 people in 263 households (Census 2011) in Dharamkot tehsil, Moga district, Punjab, the 45th-largest of 149 villages in Dharamkot tehsil. Literacy is 64%, 4 points above the tehsil average of 60% and the sex ratio is 938 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 142043, served by Kot Ise Khan post office; the LGD village code is 34088. The sarpanch is JASWANT SINGH, and the village votes in Dharamkot assembly constituency, represented by MLA Devinderjeet Singh. The population is estimated at 1,549 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Key facts — Mehal (178)
- LGD code
- 34088
- Pincode
- 142043
- Post office
- Kot Ise Khan
- Population (Census 2011)
- 1,314
- Population (projected 2026)
- 1,549
- Households
- 263
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 938
- Literacy rate
- 64.2%
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Faridkot
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Dharamkot
- Member of Parliament
- Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Devinderjeet Singh
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- JASWANT SINGH
- Block / Mandal
- Dharamkot
Same pincode
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- Chuhar Chak (318)
- Dholewala (237)
- Pandori Araian (251)
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- Kokri Behniwal (283)
- Talwandi Naubahar (312)
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)