Barwa is a village in

Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district is one of twenty-three districts of state of Punjab, India. It is located in Doaba region. It consists of three subdivisions, Nawanshahr, Banga, and Balachaur. There are three legislative seats in the distr ...

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, India. It is situated on Mehandpur-Bhagoran road and located away from postal head office Langroya, from

Balachaur Balachaur is a town in Balachaur Tehsil in the Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar District of Punjab, India. History Raja Raj Dev, a Rajput, came to Balachaur along with his family to meditate. He was related to the family of the King of Jaipur. He so ...

, from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and from state capital

Chandigarh Chandigarh () is a planned city in India. Chandigarh is bordered by the state of Punjab to the west and the south, and by the state of Haryana to the east. It constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which a ...

. The village is administrated by

Sarpanch A sarpanch ( IAST: ''Sarpañch'' Hindi: ''सरपंच'') or Gram Pradhan or Mukhiya is a decision-maker, elected by the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the Gram Sabha (village government) in India. The Sarp ...

an elected representative of the village.

Demography

As of 2011, Barwa has a total number of 261 houses and population of 1140 of which 560 include are males while 580 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The

literacy rate Literacy in its broadest sense describes "particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing" with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in written form in some specific context of use. In other words, huma ...

of Barwa is 82.19%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 90 which is 7.89% of total population of Barwa, and child sex ratio is approximately 837 as compared to Punjab state average of 846. Most of the people are from

Schedule Caste The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India. The terms are recognized in the Constitution of India and the groups are designa ...

which constitutes 57.98% of total population in Barwa. The town does not have any

Schedule Tribe The Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) are officially designated groups of people and among the most disadvantaged socio-economic groups in India. The terms are recognized in the Constitution of India and the groups are design ...

population so far. As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 321 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Barwa which includes 285 males and 36 females. According to census survey report 2011, 73.85% workers describe their work as main work and 26.15% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing

livelihood A person's livelihood (derived from ''life-lode'', "way of life"; cf. OG ''lib-leit'') refers to their "means of securing the basic necessities (food, water, shelter and clothing) of life". Livelihood is defined as a set of activities essential t ...

for less than 6 months.

Education

The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed upper primary school founded in 2004 The schools provide mid-day meal which prepared in school premises as per Indian

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. the school provide free education to children between the ages of 6 and 14 as per

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. KC Engineering College and Doaba Khalsa Trust Group Of Institutions are the nearest colleges. Industrial Training Institute for women (ITI Nawanshahr) is away from the village. The village is from

Lovely Professional University Lovely Professional University (LPU) is a private university located in Chaheru, Phagwara, Punjab, India. The university was established in 2005 by Lovely International Trust, under The Lovely Professional University Act, 2005 (Punjab Act 25 of ...

Landmarks

Badwal Mata Mandir, Barwa Mata Mandir, Badwal Jathere and Gurudwara Singh Sabha are the religious sites in Barwa.

Transport

Nawanshahr train station is the nearest train station however, Garhshankar Junction railway station is away from the village.

Sahnewal Airport Ludhiana Airport is the regional airport serving the city of Ludhiana and other sub-cities of Ludhiana District in Punjab. It is near the town of Sahnewal, southeast of Ludhiana on the Grand Trunk Road The Grand Trunk Road (formerly k ...

is the nearest domestic airport which located away in

Ludhiana Ludhiana ( ) is the most populous and the largest city in the Indian state of Punjab. The city has an estimated population of 1,618,879 2011 census and distributed over , making Ludhiana the most densely populated urban centre in the state. I ...

and the nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh also Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport is the second nearest airport which is away in Amritsar.

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