About Paliala Village

Paliala is a small village in Ghumarwin tehsil, in the district of Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 243, made up of 123 males and 120 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 976 females per 1000 males. The village covers 83 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 174003, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Paliala compares

By the 2011 count Paliala is the 110th largest of the 202 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little below average, where the typical village holds 390 residents. Its 83 hectares work out to about 2.9 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, though that is well below the tehsil average of 1039.

Getting to Paliala

Paliala is well connected by rural standards, with buses in the village itself and a railway station close by. The census records public bus service for Paliala as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within <5 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Paliala from other places

Paliala lies about 15 km from Bilaspur, and the nearest railway station is Belha, about 8.1 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Villages closest to Paliala

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Ghumarwin tehsil.

• Paliyan under 2 km
• Palti under 2 km
• Chhat 4.5 km
• Kalar 6.9 km
• Ropa Gholatar 9.7 km
• Bhatoli 9.8 km

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.