About Padana Village

Padana is a large village in Gandhidham tehsil, in the district of Kachchh, Gujarat. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 2,059, made up of 1,046 males and 1,013 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 968 females per 1000 males. The village covers 1164.89 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 370240, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Padana compares

By the 2011 count Padana is among the smallest villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 6,497 residents. Its 1164.89 hectares work out to about 1.8 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, well above the tehsil average of 841.

Getting to Padana

Padana 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 Padana as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within village. 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 Padana from other places

Padana lies about 49 km from Kachchh, and the nearest railway station is Bhimasar, about 3.0 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 Padana

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

• Chudva 2.8 km
• Mithi Rohar 8.0 km
• Galpadar 10 km
• Kandla 15 km
• Antarjal 16 km
• Kidana 17 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.