About Rupna Lahar Village

Rupna Lahar is a small village in Nurpur tehsil, in the district of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 122, made up of 59 males and 63 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,068 females per 1000 males. The village covers 221 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 176051, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Rupna Lahar compares

By the 2011 count Rupna Lahar is the 292nd largest of the 372 villages in the tehsil, which puts it among the smaller settlements locally, where the typical village holds 426 residents. Its 221 hectares work out to about 0.6 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, women outnumber men here, well above the tehsil average of 971.

Getting to Rupna Lahar

Rupna Lahar 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 Rupna Lahar 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 Rupna Lahar from other places

Rupna Lahar lies about 41 km from Kangra, and the nearest railway station is Nurpur Road, about 7.6 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 Rupna Lahar

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

• Baddi Dhar under 2 km
• Ban Bhanghar under 2 km
• Bhareet under 2 km
• Bharmoli under 2 km
• Bharnu under 2 km
• Bharui under 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.