Gadra

Gadra
Gadra
	Village
	Gadra Location in Punjab, India Gadra Gadra (India)
	Coordinates: 30°59′33″N75°34′26″E / 30.9926383°N 75.573771°E Coordinates: 30°59′33″N75°34′26″E / 30.9926383°N 75.573771°E
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Jalandhar
Tehsil	Nurmahal
Government
• Type	Panchayat raj
• Body	Gram panchayat
Elevation	237 m (778 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	355 [1]
	Sex ratio 192/163 ♂/♀
Languages
• Official	Punjabi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	144039
Telephone	01821
ISO 3166 code	IN-PB
Vehicle registration	PB- 08
Post office	Nurmahal
Website	jalandhar.nic.in

Last updated April 03, 2019

Gadra is a village in Rurka Kalan tehsil in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 14.5 km away from postal head office Nurmahal, 23.6 km from Phillaur, 42.5 km from district headquarter Jalandhar and 145 km from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by a sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per Panchayati raj (India).

Rurka Kalan is a village in the Tehsil Phillaur, Jalandhar, Punjab, India.

Jalandhar district is a district in Doaba region of the state of Punjab, India. District headquarters is Jalandhar city.

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.

Education

The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed upper primary school (GMS Gadra). The school provide mid-day meal as per Indian Midday Meal Scheme and the meal prepared in school premises and it was found in 1996.^[2]

A primary school is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the age of about five to eleven, coming after preschool, infant school and before secondary school.

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.

Demography

According to the report published by Census India in 2011 , Gadra has a total number of 64 houses and population of 355 of which include 192 males and 163 females. Literacy rate of Gadra is 81.90%, higher than state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 40 which is 11.27% of total population of Gadra, and child sex ratio is approximately 1000 higher than state average of 846.

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'.

Literacy in India is a key for socio-economic progress, and the Indian literacy rate has grown to 74.04%. Despite government programmes, India's literacy rate increased only "sluggishly". The 2011 census, indicated a 2001–2011 decadal literacy growth of 9.2%, which is slower than the growth seen during the previous decade. An old 1990 study estimated that it would take until 2060 for India to achieve universal literacy at then-current rate of progress.

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 85.07% of total population in Gadra. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.

As per census 2011, 128 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Gadra which includes 102 males and 26 females. According to census survey report 2011, 89.06% workers describe their work as main work and 10.94% workers are involved in marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.^[1]

Transport

Nurmahal railway station is the nearest train station however, Phillaur Junction train station is 22.9 km away from the village. The village is 53.8 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 138 km away in Amritsar.

A train station, railway station, railroad station, or depot is a railway facility or area where trains regularly stop to load or unload passengers or freight. It generally consists of at least one track-side platform and a station building (depot) providing such ancillary services as ticket sales and waiting rooms. If a station is on a single-track line, it often has a passing loop to facilitate traffic movements. The smallest stations are most often referred to as "stops" or, in some parts of the world, as "halts".

A domestic airport is an airport that handles only domestic flights—flights within the same country. Domestic airports do not have customs and immigration facilities and so cannot handle flights to or from a foreign airport.

Ludhiana is a city and a municipal corporation in Ludhiana district in the Indian state of Punjab, and India's largest city north of Delhi, with an area of 310sq. km and an estimated population of 1,618,879 as of the 2011 census. The population increases substantially during the harvesting season due to the migration of labourers from highly populated states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha. The city stands on the Sutlej River's old bank, 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south of its present course. It is an industrial center of northern India; the BBC has called it India's Manchester. Ludhiana was among the list of smart cities that will be developed by government of India. According to World Bank Group Ludhiana is the best city in India to do business.

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References

1 2 "Village Population per Census India". censusindia.gov.in.
↑ "Details Of School". ICBSE.

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Gadra
Village
Gadra Location in Punjab, India Show map of Punjab Gadra Gadra (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 30°59′33″N75°34′26″E / 30.9926383°N 75.573771°E / 30.9926383; 75.573771 Coordinates: 30°59′33″N75°34′26″E / 30.9926383°N 75.573771°E / 30.9926383; 75.573771
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Jalandhar
Tehsil	Nurmahal
Government
• Type	Panchayat raj
• Body	Gram panchayat
Elevation	237 m (778 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	355^[1]
	Sex ratio 192/163 ♂/♀
Languages
• Official	Punjabi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN	144039
Telephone	01821
ISO 3166 code	IN-PB
Vehicle registration	PB- 08
Post office	Nurmahal
Website	jalandhar.nic.in