Sarangwal

Sarangwal
Village
Sarangwal
Sarangwal

Location in Punjab, India

Coordinates: 31°04′35″N 75°17′41″E / 31.076313°N 75.2947202°E / 31.076313; 75.2947202Coordinates: 31°04′35″N 75°17′41″E / 31.076313°N 75.2947202°E / 31.076313; 75.2947202
Country  India
State Punjab
District Jalandhar
Tehsil Shahkot
Government
  Type Panchayat raj
  Body Gram panchayat
Elevation 240 m (790 ft)
Population (2011)
  Total 789[1]
  Sex ratio 414/375 /
Languages
  Official Punjabi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
ISO 3166 code IN-PB
Vehicle registration PB-08
Website jalandhar.nic.in

Sarangwal is a village in Shahkot in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) from Shahkot, 21.5 kilometres (13.4 mi) from Nakodar, 45 kilometres (28 mi) from district headquarter Jalandhar and 176 kilometres (109 mi) from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.

Demography

As of 2011, Qadian has a total number of 167 houses and population of 789 of which include 414 are males while 375 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. Literacy rate of the village is 74.82%, lower than state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 82 which is 10.39% of total population of the village, and child sex ratio is approximately 952 higher than state average of 846.

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 65.27% of total population in the village. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.

As per census 2011, 325 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of the village which includes 264 males and 61 females. According to census survey report 2011, 77.23% workers describe their work as main work and 22.77% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.[1]

Transport

Shahkot Malisian station is the nearest train station. The village is 82 kilometres (51 mi) 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 115 kilometres (71 mi) away in Amritsar.

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