About Sasan Village

Sasan is a small village in Barsar tehsil, in the district of Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 40, made up of 20 males and 20 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,000 females per 1000 males. The village covers 7.96 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 174312, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Sasan compares

By the 2011 count Sasan is the 212th largest of the 231 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 232 residents. Its 7.96 hectares work out to about 5.0 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, though that is well below the tehsil average of 1122.

Getting to Sasan

Sasan is served by buses within the village, though the nearest railway station is further out. The census records public bus service for Sasan 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 - 10 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Sasan from other places

Sasan lies about 13 km from Hamirpur, and the nearest railway station is Churaru Takarla, about 30 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 Sasan

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

• Taradol under 2 km
• Jangal Mehfuja Mehduda Dhar Ban Hummal under 2 km
• Up Muhal Jangal Palatu under 2 km
• Up Muhal Rakkar under 2 km
• Akrana Brahmana 3.2 km
• Chhatoli Brahmana 3.2 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.