About Dahar Village

Dahar is a small village in Kandaghat tehsil, in the district of Solan, Himachal Pradesh. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 76, made up of 35 males and 41 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 1,171 females per 1000 males. The village covers 40.21 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 173212, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Dahar compares

By the 2011 count Dahar is the 157th largest of the 252 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well below average, where the typical village holds 153 residents. Its 40.21 hectares work out to about 1.9 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 967.

Getting to Dahar

Dahar is reached by bus from a few kilometres away, with rail a longer trip. The census records public bus service for Dahar as Available within <5 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within <5 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within 10+ km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Dahar from other places

Dahar lies about 8.0 km from Solan, and the nearest railway station is Salogra, about 6.8 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 Dahar

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

• Naog under 2 km
• Neri under 2 km
• Kotla under 2 km
• Takrana under 2 km
• Gauhra 1.9 km
• Nauhra 2.1 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.