Taksi Population - Leh, Jammu and Kashmir

Taksi is a medium size village located in Nubra Tehsil of Leh district, Jammu and Kashmir with total 112 families residing. The Taksi village has population of 886 of which 452 are males while 434 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Taksi village population of children with age 0-6 is 169 which makes up 19.07 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Taksi village is 960 which is higher than Jammu and Kashmir state average of 889. Child Sex Ratio for the Taksi as per census is 760, lower than Jammu and Kashmir average of 862.

Taksi village has lower literacy rate compared to Jammu and Kashmir. In 2011, literacy rate of Taksi village was 65.13 % compared to 67.16 % of Jammu and Kashmir. In Taksi Male literacy stands at 79.49 % while female literacy rate was 50.97 %.

As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Taksi village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Taksi village.

Taksi Data

Particulars	Total	Male	Female
Total No. of Houses	112	-	-
Population	886	452	434
Child (0-6)	169	96	73
Schedule Caste	0	0	0
Schedule Tribe	876	444	432
Literacy	65.13 %	79.49 %	50.97 %
Total Workers	371	178	193
Main Worker	297	-	-
Marginal Worker	74	21	53

Caste Factor

In Taksi village, most of the village population is from Schedule Tribe (ST). Schedule Tribe (ST) constitutes 98.87 % of total population in Taksi village. There is no population of Schedule Caste (SC) in Taksi village of Leh.

Work Profile

In Taksi village out of total population, 371 were engaged in work activities. 80.05 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 19.95 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 371 workers engaged in Main Work, 193 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 1 were Agricultural labourer.