About Balsamand Village

Balsamand is a mid sized village in Ladnu tehsil, in the district of Nagaur, Rajasthan. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,866, made up of 953 males and 913 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 958 females per 1000 males. The village covers 1042.52 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 341304, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Balsamand compares

By the 2011 count Balsamand is the 37th largest of the 99 villages in the tehsil, which puts it close to average, where the typical village holds 1,893 residents. Its 1042.52 hectares work out to about 1.8 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, much in line with the tehsil average of 963.

Getting to Balsamand

Balsamand 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 Balsamand 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 village. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Balsamand from other places

Balsamand lies about 84 km from Nagaur, and the nearest railway station is Balsamand, about under 2 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 Balsamand

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

• Shyampura under 2 km
• Jhekariya 2.1 km
• Badela 3.7 km
• Chhapara 3.7 km
• Ledi 3.8 km
• Bankliya 4.3 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.