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Bhalun (36)

Rohru block · Shimla district, Himachal Pradesh · PIN 171224 · village code 26407

The 2020 population figure for this village looks unreliable, so no change is shown. Census 2011 recorded 701 people; Mission Antyodaya 2020 recorded 1,999 — more than 2.5 times higher, which no village grows in nine years. One of the two is wrong and we cannot tell which.

Census 2011

Total population
701
Male / female
347 / 354
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
1,020
Children aged 0–6
75
Literacy rate
65.8%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
68 / 5
Working population
452
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
87.4%
Households
152

Village facilities, 2020

Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water nearest 10 km away
No
All-weather road
Yes
Public transport nearest 10 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre
PHC
Anganwadi nearest 10 km away
No
Internet
Yes
Common service centre
No CSC

The village primary school

These figures sit inside a single merged column of the Mission Antyodaya file and are not published anywhere in readable form.

Students
18
Teachers
3
Students per teacher
6
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
Yes

Farming

Farm households
90
Non-farm households
25
Share of households farming, 2020
78%
Net sown area
2 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
2 / 2 / 2
Main irrigation source
Other

Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25

XV Finance Commission grant for Bhaloon panchayat, Rohru zila parishad. These are the panchayat's own accounts, not this village's: where a panchayat holds several villages, the money covers all of them, and where a village spans several panchayats only this one's return appears.

Opening balance
₹6.56 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹11.54 lakh
Received directly
₹3.07 lakh
Spent
₹9.10 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹12.06 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹1.76 lakh · received ₹4.77 lakh · spent ₹4.90 lakh · left ₹1.92 lakh
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹4.80 lakh · received ₹6.77 lakh · spent ₹4.20 lakh · left ₹10.14 lakh

Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied together make up the totals above.

Location

31.1702, 77.7089 — view on OpenStreetMap

Nearby villages

Bhali (64) compare · Bhalog (100) compare · Bhalogri (73) compare · Bhalu (135) compare · Bhamnala (65) compare · Bhamnoli (24) compare · Bhamnoli (30) compare · Bhamta Parali (100) compare

How this village compares

Biggest population changes in Shimla district · School staffing across Shimla · …and across Himachal Pradesh