Burj Kandhari

Burj Kandhari
Burj Kandhari
	Village
	Burj Kandhari Location in Punjab, India Burj Kandhari Burj Kandhari (India)
	Coordinates: 31°12′51″N75°49′47″E / 31.2142993°N 75.8296026°E Coordinates: 31°12′51″N75°49′47″E / 31.2142993°N 75.8296026°E
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar
Government
• Type	Panchayat raj
• Body	Gram panchayat
Elevation	254 m (833 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	654 [1]
	Sex ratio 322/332 ♂/♀
Languages
• Official	Punjabi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	144501
Telephone code	01884
ISO 3166 code	IN-PB
Post office	Kultham [2]
Website	nawanshahr.nic.in

Last updated March 17, 2019

Burj Kandhari is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 8.7 kilometres (5.4 mi) away from Phagwara, 18 kilometres (11 mi) from Banga, 29 kilometres (18 mi) from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and 122 kilometres (76 mi) from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.^[3]

Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district is one of the districts in Doaba region of the state of Punjab in North-West Republic of India. It consists of three Sub -Divisions Nawanshahr, Banga and Balachaur. There are three legislative seats in the district, Nawanshahr, Balachaur and Banga. They fall under the Anandpur Sahib Lok Sabha Constituency.

Punjab is a state in northern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast, Rajasthan to the southwest, and the Pakistani province of Punjab to the west. The state covers an area of 50,362 square kilometres, 1.53% of India's total geographical area. It is the 20th-largest Indian state by area. With 27,704,236 inhabitants at the 2011 census, Punjab is the 16th-largest state by population, comprising 22 districts. Punjabi is the most widely spoken and official language of the state. The main ethnic group are the Punjabis, with Sikhs (58%) forming the demographic majority. The state capital is Chandigarh, a Union Territory and also the capital of the neighbouring state of Haryana. The five rivers from which the region took its name were Sutlej, Ravi, Beas, Chenab and Jhelum; Sutlej, Ravi and Beas are part of the Indian Punjab.

Phagwara is a city and the Municipal Corporation with area of 20 km²(approx.) in Kapurthala district of Punjab State, India. The city lies on the National Highway 44 and located 124 kilometres (77 mi) away from Chandigarh and 20 kilometres (12 mi) away from Jalandhar361 kilometres (224 mi) from Delhi.

Demography

As of 2011, Burj Kandhari has a total number of 141 houses and population of 654 of which 322 include are males while 332 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Burj Kandhari is 80.72%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 73 which is 11.16% of total population of Burj Kandhari, and child sex ratio is approximately 921 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.^[1]^[4]

The 15th Indian Census was conducted in two phases, house listing and population enumeration. House listing phase began on 1 April 2010 and involved collection of information about all buildings. Information for National Population Register was also collected in the first phase, which will be used to issue a 12-digit unique identification number to all registered Indian residents by Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). The second population enumeration phase was conducted between 9 and 28 February 2011. Census has been conducted in India since 1872 and 2011 marks the first time biometric information was collected. According to the provisional reports released on 31 March 2011, the Indian population increased to 1.21 billion with a decadal growth of 17.70%. Adult literacy rate increased to 74.04% with a decadal growth of 9.21%. The motto of the census was 'Our Census, Our future'.

Dictionaries traditionally define literacy as the ability to read and write. In the modern world, this is one way of interpreting literacy. One more broad interpretation sees literacy as knowledge and competence in a specific area. The concept of literacy has evolved in meaning. The modern term's meaning has been expanded to include the ability to use language, numbers, images, computers, and other basic means to understand, communicate, gain useful knowledge, solve mathematical problems and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture. The concept of literacy is expanding across OECD countries to include skills to access knowledge through technology and ability to assess complex contexts. A person who travels and resides in a foreign country but is unable to read or write in the language of the host country would be regarded by the locals as illiterate.

In India, the Child Sex Ratio is defined as the number of females per thousand males in the age group 0–6 years in a human population. Thus it is equal to 1000 x the reciprocal of the sex ratio in the same age group, i.e. under age seven. An imbalance in this age group will extend to older age groups in future years. Currently, the ratio of males to females is generally significantly greater than 1, i.e. there are more boys than girls.

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 75.99% of total population in Burj Kandhari. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.^[1]

The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of historically disadvantaged people in India. The terms are recognised in the Constitution of India and the groups are designated in one or other of the categories. For much of the period of British rule in the Indian subcontinent, they were known as the Depressed Classes. The people in scheduled castes are essentially the lowest part of Hindu society.

As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 168 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Burj Kandhari which includes 158 males and 10 females. According to census survey report 2011, 80.95% workers describe their work as main work and 19.05% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.^[1]^[5]

A person's livelihood refers to their "means of securing the basic necessities -food, water, shelter and clothing- of life". Livelihood is defined as a set of activities performed to live for a given life span , involving securing water, food, fodder, medicine, shelter, clothing and the capacity to acquire above necessities working either individually or as a group by using endowments for meeting the requirements of the self and his/her household on a sustainable basis with dignity. The activities are usually carried out repeatedly. For instance, a fisherman's livelihood depends on the availability and accessibility of fish.

Education

The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed upper primary school founded in 1996.^[6]^[7] The schools provide mid-day meal as per Indian Midday Meal Scheme ^[8] and the meal prepared in school premises. As per Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act the school provide free education to children between the ages of 6 and 14.

The Midday Meal Scheme is a school meal programme of the Government of India designed to better the nutritional standing of school-age children nationwide. The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in primary and upper primary classes in government, government aided, local body, Education Guarantee Scheme, and alternate innovative education centres, Madarsa and Maqtabs supported under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, and National Child Labour Project schools run by the ministry of labour. Serving 120,000,000 children in over 1,265,000 schools and Education Guarantee Scheme centres, it is the largest of its kind in the world.

Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial college Mukandpur and Sikh National College Banga are the nearest colleges.^[6] Lovely Professional University is 20 kilometres (12 mi) away from the village.

Lovely Professional University (LPU) is a private university situated in Jalandhar, Punjab, India. The university was established in 2005 by Lovely International Trust, under The Lovely Professional University Act, 2005 and started operation in 2006. With 24,000 students in 2010, it claims to be the largest single-campus private university in India.

List of schools nearby:

Sat Modern Public School, Mangat Dingrian
Guru Teg Bahadur Model School, Behram
Guru Ram Dass Public School, Cheta
Lovely Public School, Pathlawa

Transport

Banga railway station is the nearest train station however, Phagwara Junction railway station is 9.8 kilometres (6.1 mi) away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located 59 kilometres (37 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 125 kilometres (78 mi) away in Amritsar.^[9]

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References

1 2 3 4 "Burj Kandhari Population per Census India". 2011 Census of India .
↑ "All India Pincode Directory" (PDF). censusindia.gov.in.
↑ "List of Sarpanches of Gram Panchayats in SBS Nagar district" (PDF). nawanshahr.gov.in (extract from Punjab Government Gazette). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
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↑ "Details about GMS Burj Kandhari School". icbse.com.
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[census-1] 1 2 3 4 "Burj Kandhari Population per Census India". 2011 Census of India .

[2] "All India Pincode Directory" (PDF). censusindia.gov.in.

[3] "List of Sarpanches of Gram Panchayats in SBS Nagar district" (PDF). nawanshahr.gov.in (extract from Punjab Government Gazette). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2016.

[4] "Child Sex Ratio in India (2001-2011)". pib.nic.in.

[5] "District Census Handbook SBS Nagar" (PDF). censusindia.gov.in.

[SBSNP-6] 1 2 "List of Schools and Colleges in SBS Nagar district" (PDF). sbsnagarpolice.com.

[7] "Details about GMS Burj Kandhari School". icbse.com.

[8] "Mid Day Meal Society". ssapunjab.org.

[9] "Distance from Burj Kandhari (Multiple routes)". Google Map.

v t e Cities and towns in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district
Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar	Balachaur Banga Bagoran Chandpur Rurki Chak Guru Jagatpur Langeri Jindowal Khan Khana Mukandpur Nawanshahr Rahon Ratainda Sotran
Other districts	Ajitgarh Amritsar Barnala Bathinda Faridkot Fatehgarh Sahib Firozpur Gurudaspur Hoshiarpur Jalandhar Kapurthala Ludhiana Mansa Moga Sri Muktsar Sahib Patiala Rupnagar Sangrur Tarn Taran