Palra is a village of Bangra Block, Mau Ranipur Tehsil,

Jhansi district Jhansi district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The city of Jhansi is the district headquarters. The district is bordered on the north by Jalaun District, to the east by Hamirpur and Mahoba districts, to the ...

, in the state of

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. It is located in the Bangra block of Jhansi. Bangara is 50 km from the district headquarters, namely,

Jhansi Jhansi (; Hindi: झांसी, Urdu: ) is a historic city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It lies in the region of Bundelkhand on the banks of the Pahuj River, in the extreme south of Uttar Pradesh. Jhansi is the administrative hea ...

on NH-76. The village of Palra is located 3 km to the north. The predominant

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is Thakur. Kuswaha and

Dhobi Dhobi known in some places as Dhoba or Rajaka, Madivala is a group of community in India and the greater Indian subcontinent whose traditional occupations are washing and ironing, Cultivator, agricultural workers. They are a large community, ...

are the other major groups who reside here. From palra village there is famous historical temple GAIRAHA TEMPLE which is coming under ASI and good place to see.

Demographics

As of the 2021 Census, the population of this village was 4801, including 2588 males and 2213 females. Palra is also a gram panchayat and nayay panchayat. Currently, Gram pradhan is Mohan kushwaha . palra is one of the biggest gram panchayat of bangara block after magarpur and it has 2 BDC seats for kheshtra panchayat bangara.

Overview

Transit is available for travel from Bangara to Palra. Taxis and Autos Maruthi are available. Bangra is well connected by bus from Jhansi and Mauranipur. There is a branch post office located in Palra. Its pincode is 284205.

Punjab National Bank Punjab National Bank (abbreviated as PNB) is an Indian public sector bank headquartered in Delhi. The bank was founded in May 1894 and is the second largest government-owned bank in India, both in terms of its business volumes and its network ...

has a branch in the Bangra which is a block headquarters near palra. Nearest ATM is in Bangra (PNB) 3 km and in Mauranipur (SBI) 18 km

References

Villages in Jhansi district {{Jhansi-geo-stub