Bala is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

and a Gram Panchayat in the Ahore Tehsil of

Jalore district Jalore District is a district of Rajasthan state in western India. The city of Jalore is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district has an area of (3.11 percent of Rajasthan's area), and a population of 1,828,730 (2011 census) ...

Rajasthan Rajasthan (; lit. 'Land of Kings') is a state in northern India. It covers or 10.4 per cent of India's total geographical area. It is the largest Indian state by area and the seventh largest by population. It is on India's northwestern si ...

in northwest

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Geography

Bala is located in

Ahor Ahore or Ahor (Aavar) (आहोर) is a town in the Jalore District of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Strategically located at intersection of Sanderao-Jalore and Jalore-Jodhpur Highway and is a great commercial hub catering to almost all ne ...

, Tehsil in the

Jalore Jalore () (ISO 15919 : ''Jālora'' ), also known as ''Granite City'', is a city in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. It is the administrative headquarters of Jalore District. It has a river known as Jawai Nadi. Jalore lies to south of Su ...

district of

. It has an average elevation of . It is located 38 kilometers north of the district headquarters in Jalore, 27 kilometers from Ahore and 394 kilometers from the state capital, Jaipur.

Demographics

According to a 2011 census, the population of Bala is 4,264. At the time of the census, there were 2,074 men and 2,190 women. Children ages 0 to 6 make up 14.66 percent of the total

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. The average

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of Bala village is 1,056, which is higher than the Rajasthan state average of 928. The sex ratio among children is 959 which is higher than the Rajasthan average of 888. Bala village has a lower literacy rate than that of the Rajasthan's average. In 2011, the literacy rate of Bala village was 58.97 percent, compared to 66.11 percent of Rajasthan. In Bala, literacy stands at 71.17 percent among men and 47.61 percent among women.

References

Villages in Jalore district {{Rajasthan-geo-stub