Salah Nagar is a village in Shahkot in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) from Shahkot, 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from Nakodar, 37 kilometres (23 mi) from district headquarter Jalandhar and 168 kilometres (104 mi) from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by a sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per Panchayati raj (India).
Salah Nagar | |
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Village | |
  Salah Nagar Location in Punjab, India  Salah Nagar Salah Nagar (India) | |
| Coordinates: 31°07′24″N 75°20′36″E / 31.1233706°N 75.3434204°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Punjab |
| District | Jalandhar |
| Tehsil | Shahkot |
| Government | |
| • Type | Panchayat raj |
| • Body | Gram panchayat |
| Elevation | 240 m (790 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 2,478[1] |
| Sex ratio 1273/1205 ♂/♀ | |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Punjabi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| ISO 3166 code | IN-PB |
| Vehicle registration | PB- 08 |
| Website | jalandhar |
Demography edit
As of 2011, Qadian has a total number of 546 houses and population of 2478 of which include 1273 are males while 1205 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. Literacy rate of the village is 77.52%, higher than state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 205 which is 8.27% of total population of the village, and child sex ratio is approximately 708 lower than state average of 846.
Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 37.69% of total population in the village. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.
As per census 2011, 874 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of the village which includes 763 males and 111 females. According to census survey report 2011, 96.11% workers describe their work as main work and 3.89% workers are involved in marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.[1]
Transport edit
Shahkot Malisian station is the nearest train station. The village is 74 kilometres (46 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 108 kilometres (67 mi) away in Amritsar.