About Maira Village

Maira is a mid sized village in Jawali tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,394, made up of 712 males and 682 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 958 females per 1000 males. The village covers 180.1 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176021, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Maira compares

By the 2011 count Maira is the 18th largest of the 184 villages in the tehsil, which puts it more than twice the local average, where the typical village holds 570 residents. Its 180.1 hectares work out to about 7.7 people per hectare, moderately settled. On the sex ratio, the balance between women and men is close to even, though that is well below the tehsil average of 1026.

Getting to Maira

Maira 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 Maira 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 Maira from other places

Maira lies about 50 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Nurpur Road, about 6.3 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 Maira

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

• Bhalun 5.0 km
• Mehskar 11 km
• Karsoli 11 km
• Takhniar 11 km
• Panola 12 km
• Ban Tungli 12 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.