About Plahi Village

Plahi is a large village in Bashohli tehsil, in the district of Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 2,741, made up of 1,407 males and 1,334 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 948 females per 1000 males. The village covers 736 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 184201, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Plahi compares

By the 2011 count Plahi is the 6th largest of the 38 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well above average, where the typical village holds 1,720 residents. Its 736 hectares work out to about 3.7 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, though that is well above the tehsil average of 902.

Getting to Plahi

Plahi 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 Plahi 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 Plahi from other places

Plahi lies about 60 km from Kathua, and the nearest railway station is Nurpur Road, about 49 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 Plahi

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

• Janu 21 km
• Bhoond 22 km
• Siyalag 25 km
• Forest Block 27 km
• Mahan Pora 27 km
• Sandar 28 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.