Dalewal

Dalewal
Village
Dalewal
Dalewal

Location in Punjab, India

Coordinates: 31°06′08″N 75°46′04″E / 31.1023058°N 75.7677323°E / 31.1023058; 75.7677323Coordinates: 31°06′08″N 75°46′04″E / 31.1023058°N 75.7677323°E / 31.1023058; 75.7677323
Country  India
State Punjab
District Jalandhar
Tehsil Rurka Kalan
Government
  Type Panchayat raj
  Body Gram panchayat
Elevation 246 m (807 ft)
Population (2011)
  Total 1,066[1]
  Sex ratio 525/541 /
Languages
  Official Punjabi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 144409
Telephone 01824
ISO 3166 code IN-PB
Vehicle registration PB-08
Post office Goraya
Website jalandhar.nic.in

Dalewal is a village in Rurka Kalan tehsil in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 3 km from Goraya, 30 km from district headquarter Jalandhar and 130 km from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.

Education

The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed upper primary school (GMS Dalewal). The school provide mid-day meal as per Indian Midday Meal Scheme and the meal prepared in school premises and it was found in 1997.[2]

Demography

As of 2011, Dalewal has a total number of 241 houses and population of 1066 of which include 525 are males while 541 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. Literacy rate of Dalewal is 79.06%, higher than state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 87 which is 8.16% of total population of Dalewal, and child sex ratio is approximately 851 higher than state average of 846.

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 39.77% of total population in Dalewal. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.

As per census 2011, 265 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Dalewal which includes 239 males and 26 females. According to census survey report 2011, 97.36% workers describe their work as main work and 2.64% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.[1]

Transport

Bhattian railway station is the nearest train station however, Goraya train station is 4.8 km away from the village. The village is 43.4 km away from domestic airport in Ludhiana and the nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh also Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport is the second nearest airport which is 131 km away in Amritsar.

References

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