About Manara Village

Manara is a small village in Jawali tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 216, made up of 109 males and 107 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 982 females per 1000 males. The village covers 161.19 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176024, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Manara compares

By the 2011 count Manara is the 134th largest of the 184 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 570 residents. Its 161.19 hectares work out to about 1.3 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, though that is well below the tehsil average of 1026.

Getting to Manara

Manara 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 Manara 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 Manara from other places

Manara lies about 19 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Harsar Dehri, about 2.6 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 Manara

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

• Ban Manara under 2 km
• Baldoa 1.6 km
• Reserve Jangal Baldoa 1.6 km
• Nagrota Surian 1.6 km
• Dehri 1.6 km
• Nana Khas 1.8 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.