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Village snapshot
Quick panchayat-at-a-glance
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Sarpanch · Gram Panchayat
PATEL UDAY P
Contact: 96****5654
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- LGD code
- 517099
- Pincode
- 388530
- Post office
- Bhadran
- Population
- 9,273
- Households
- 1,964
- Literacy rate
- 78.6%
- Sex ratio
- 930 ♀/1000♂
- Workers
- 3,724
- Distance to district centre
- 44 km
- Distance to mandal centre
- 21 km
- Distance to Gandhinagar
- 99 km
- Distance to Mumbai
- 365 km
- Nearest railway station
- Bhadran · <1 km
- Nearest hospital / PHC
- Parshva Nursing Home · <1 km
Census 2011 · in context
How Bhadran compares
By population, Bhadran ranks #10 of 64 villages in Borsad mandal.
Literacy rate
%
78.6%
+7.4% vs mandal average
- Bhadran
- 78.6%
- Borsad mandal
- 71.2%
- Anand district
- 74.1%
Sex ratio
♀ per 1000 ♂
930
+10 vs mandal average
- Bhadran
- 930
- Borsad mandal
- 920
Household size
people per home
4.7
−0.1 vs mandal average
- Bhadran
- 4.7
- Borsad mandal
- 4.8
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Bhadran at a glance
Bhadran is a village of 9,273 people in 1,964 households (Census 2011) in Borsad taluka, Anand district, Gujarat, the 10th-largest of 64 villages in Borsad taluka. Literacy is 79%, 7 points above the taluka average of 71% and the sex ratio is 930 women per 1,000 men. It lies 44 km from the Anand district centre, 12 km from Dahewan, the nearest town, under 1 km from Bhadran railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 388530, served by Bhadran post office; the LGD village code is 517099. Mapped within or next to the village: primary health centre. The sarpanch is PATEL UDAY P, and the village votes in Sojitra assembly constituency, represented by MLA Patel Vipulkumar Vinubhai. The population is estimated at 10,933 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
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Amenities · Census 2011 village directory · Bhadran
- Treated tap water
- No
- Untreated tap water
- Yes
- Well water
- No
- Hand pump
- Yes
- Tube well / borewell
- Yes
- Electricity for homes
- Yes
- Electricity for farms
- Yes
- Power hours (summer)
- 24
- Power hours (winter)
- 24
- Primary school
- 6
- Middle school
- 0
- Secondary school
- 1
- Senior secondary
- 1
- Degree college
- 0
- Primary health centre
- 1
- Health sub-centre
- 2
- Community health centre
- 0
- Dispensary
- 0
- Veterinary hospital
- 1
- Post office
- Yes
- Sub post office
- No
- Commercial bank
- Yes
- Cooperative bank
- Yes
- ATM
- No
- Public bus service
- Yes
- Private bus service
- No
- Railway station
- Yes
- Pucca (paved) road
- Yes
- Anganwadi centre
- Yes
- ASHA worker
- Yes
- Fair-price shop
- Yes
- Mandi / regular market
- Yes
- Weekly haat
- Yes
- Nearest statutory town
- BORSAD
- Distance to nearest town (km)
- 5
- Distance to district HQ (km)
- 21
- Distance to sub-district HQ (km)
- 5
- All-weather road
- Yes
- Gram panchayat (2011)
- BHADRAN
- Total area (ha)
- 1,284.94
- Irrigated area (ha)
- 630
- Forest area (ha)
- 1.5
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Notice board · Bhadran
No notices this weekWater supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Key facts — Bhadran
- LGD code
- 517099
- Pincode
- 388530
- Post office
- Bhadran
- Population (Census 2011)
- 9,273
- Population (projected 2026)
- 10,933
- Households
- 1,964
- Sex ratio (per 1,000 males)
- 930
- Literacy rate
- 78.6%
- Coordinates
- 22.35930°N, 72.90050°E
- Lok Sabha constituency
- Anand
- Vidhan Sabha constituency
- Sojitra
- Member of Parliament
- Mitesh Patel
- Member of Legislative Assembly
- Patel Vipulkumar Vinubhai
- Sarpanch / Gram Pradhan
- PATEL UDAY P
- Block / Mandal
- Borsad
- Nearest PHC
- Parshva Nursing Home (0.2 km)
- Nearest railway station
- Bhadran (1.0 km)
Getting there
How to reach Bhadran
Distance to cities · straight line
- Gandhinagar99 kmcapital
- Mumbai365 km
- Hyderabad804 km
- Delhi819 km
Nearest by kind · anywhere in the region
- Railway stationBhadran<1 km
- Bus stopBharel Bus Stop9 km
- Hospital / PHCParshva Nursing Home<1 km
- ATM / bankmeet26 km
- Petrol pumpCNG pump Gspc20 km
- CollegeCOLLEGE OF FOOD TECHNOLOGY21 km
- Police stationMakarpura Road Police Station33 km
Nearest to the village
- Railway station
- Bhadranunder 1 km
- Health centre
- Parshva Nursing Homeunder 1 km
Village amenities · Census 2011 / OpenStreetMap within 2 km
- ✓ Primary health centre
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- Population, literacy, households: Census 2011 (PCA)
- Village directory: Local Government Directory, record updated 2026-05-09
- Sarpanch: state panchayat-raj records, 2026-05-14
- Mandi prices: Agmarknet via data.gov.in, 2026-09-19
- Weather: OpenWeatherMap / Open-Meteo, live
- Places nearby: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)