About Alamgir Village

Alamgir is a mid sized village in Dera Bassi tehsil, in the district of Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, Punjab. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 694, made up of 362 males and 332 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 917 females per 1000 males. The village covers 309 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 140501, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Alamgir compares

By the 2011 count Alamgir is the 99th largest of the 136 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well below average, where the typical village holds 1,198 residents. Its 309 hectares work out to about 2.2 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 866.

Getting to Alamgir

Alamgir 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 Alamgir as Available within <5 km distance. 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 Alamgir from other places

Alamgir lies about 24 km from Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar, and the nearest railway station is Lalru, about 1.8 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 Alamgir

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

• Mandi 2.0 km
• Sarsini 2.1 km
• Jhajon 2.1 km
• Lalru 2.9 km
• Dharamgarh 3.3 km
• Sitarpur 3.3 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.