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By population, Salghari ranks #13 of 20 villages in Jorethang mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Salghari is a village of 850 people in 184 households (Census 2011) in Jorethang block, Namchi district, Sikkim, the 13th-largest of 20 villages in Jorethang block. Literacy is 74%, about the same as the block average of 73% and the sex ratio is 1,063 women per 1,000 men. The pincode is 737126, served by Namchi post office; the LGD village code is 261121. The village votes in Melli assembly constituency, represented by MLA Nar Bahadur Pradhan. The population is estimated at 1,002 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Salghari →
Source: Census of India 2011, Village Directory. Facilities may have changed since.
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
Centred on Jorethang mandal
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