About Tauru Village

Tauru is a small village in Jawalamukhi tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 368, made up of 182 males and 186 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,022 females per 1000 males. The village covers 104.41 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176036, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Tauru compares

By the 2011 count Tauru is the 35th largest of the 121 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little above average, where the typical village holds 312 residents. Its 104.41 hectares work out to about 3.5 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 1107.

Getting to Tauru

Tauru 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 Tauru 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 Tauru from other places

Tauru lies about 16 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Paror, about 10 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 Tauru

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

• Luthan 1.8 km
• Hiran 2.8 km
• Darin 3.9 km
• Chakban Kalidhar Jawalamukhi Ii 4.7 km
• Barru 7.2 km
• Thehra 7.7 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.