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Ralla, Punjab

Ralla
ਰੱਲਾ
Joga Ralla
Village
Ralla is located in Punjab
Ralla
Ralla
Ralla is located in India
Ralla
Ralla
Location in Punjab, India
Coordinates: 30°07′12″N 75°25′55″E / 30.120°N 75.432°E / 30.120; 75.432Coordinates: 30°07′12″N 75°25′55″E / 30.120°N 75.432°E / 30.120; 75.432
Country  India
State Punjab
District Mansa
Government
 • Body Gram panchayat
Languages
 • Official Punjabi
 • Regional Punjabi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
Nearest city Mansa

Ralla is a village in Mansa district of Punjab, India. There is an other village known as Joga nearby (5.5 km) and they often are called together as Joga Ralla.

Ralla is approximately centered at 30°07′12″N 75°25′55″E / 30.12000°N 75.43194°E / 30.12000; 75.43194. It is located on the Barnala-Mansa-Sirsa highway no. 13 at only 16 km from Mansa and 33 km from Barnala.The total geographical area of village is 2845 hectares. Ralla has a total population of 7,832 peoples. There are about 1,546 houses in Ralla village. Mansa is nearest town to Ralla. Aklia, Burj Rathi, Chauke, Joga, Makha Chehlan and Samaon , tamkot , Ubha, bhupal are the surrounding villages.

All the population speaks Punjabi which is the mother tongue as well as the official language here. The village is predominated by the Chahal clan of Jatts.

As of religion, Sikhism predominates the village with other minorities.

In this village many families of Bhraman lives. They all are of Rikhi clan (Gotra).

Ralla has a micro-hydel power plant with the capacity of 0.3 megawatt, working from 2009.


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