Dhira is a village in
Batala
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in
Gurdaspur district
Gurdaspur district is a district in the Majha region of the state of Punjab, India. Gurdaspur is the district headquarters. It internationally borders Narowal District of Pakistani Punjab, and the districts of Amritsar, Pathankot, Kapurthala ...
of
Punjab
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, India. The village is
administrated by
Sarpanch
A sarpanch, gram pradhan, mukhiya, or president is a decision-maker, elected by the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the gram sabha (village government) in India. The sarpanch, together with other elected panchay ...
an elected representative of the village.
Demography
In 2011, the village comprised a total of 191 houses with a population of 1026 individuals, including 542 males and 484 females, as reported by
Census India
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. The village's literacy rate stands at 75.06%, slightly below the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years amounts to 128, accounting for 12.48% of the total village population, with a child sex ratio of approximately 730, which is lower than the state average of 846.
See also
*
List of villages in India Villages
India
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References
Villages in Gurdaspur district
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