Dilawarpur, SBS Nagar

Dilawarpur
ਦਿਲਾਵਰਪੁਰ
Village
Dilawarpur
Dilawarpur

Location in Punjab, India

Coordinates: 31°01′42″N 76°04′48″E / 31.0282796°N 76.0800191°E / 31.0282796; 76.0800191Coordinates: 31°01′42″N 76°04′48″E / 31.0282796°N 76.0800191°E / 31.0282796; 76.0800191
Country  India
State Punjab
District Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar
Government
  Type Panchayat raj
  Body Gram panchayat
Elevation 254 m (833 ft)
Population (2011)
  Total 263[1]
  Sex ratio 128/135 /
Languages
  Official Punjabi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 144517
Telephone code 01823
ISO 3166 code IN-PB
Post office Rahon[2]
Website nawanshahr.nic.in

Dilawarpur (Punjabi: ਦਿਲਾਵਰਪੁਰ) is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 4.7 kilometres (2.9 mi) away from postal head office Rahon, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) from Nawanshahr, 15.3 kilometres (9.5 mi) from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and 90 kilometres (56 mi) from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.[3]

Demography

As of 2011, Dilawarpur has a total number of 52 houses and population of 263 of which 128 include are males while 135 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Dilawarpur is 78.11%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 30 which is 11.41% of total population of Dilawarpur, and child sex ratio is approximately 1000 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.[1][4]

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 60.84% of total population in Dilawarpur. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.[1]

As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 85 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Dilawarpur which includes 78 males and 7 females. According to census survey report 2011, 98.82% workers describe their work as main work and 1.18% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.[1][5]

Education

The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed primary school founded in 1976.[6][7] The school provide mid-day meal. The school provide free education to children between the ages of 6 and 14 as per Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act. KC Engineering College and Doaba Khalsa Trust Group Of Institutions are the nearest colleges.[6] Industrial Training Institute for women (ITI Nawanshahr) is 14.7 kilometres (9.1 mi) and Lovely Professional University is 59 kilometres (37 mi) away from the village.

Transport

Nawanshahr railway station is the nearest train station however, Garhshankar Junction railway station is 25.8 kilometres (16.0 mi) away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located 48 kilometres (30 mi) away 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 168 kilometres (104 mi) away in Amritsar.[8]

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