Bhattian ( pa, ਭੱਟੀਆਂ) is a village in the

Phillaur Phillaur is a city and a municipal council as well as a tehsil in Jalandhar district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Punjab, India, Punjab. Overview Phillaur is the railway junction on the border line of Ludhiana Main ...

tehsil of

Jalandhar Jalandhar is the third most-populous city in the Indian state of Punjab and the largest city in Doaba region. Jalandhar lies alongside the Grand Trunk Road and is a well-connected rail and road junction. Jalandhar is northwest of the state ...

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of the Indian state of

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. It is located on from the head postal office in Phillaur, from

Goraya Goraya is a city in Jalandhar district and Tehsil of the Indian state of Punjab. It lies between Jalandhar and (Ludhiana) stretch of National Highway 44 (Old NH 1), Grand Trunk Road. Demography , the town has a total number of 3590 houses ...

, from Jalandhar, and from the state capital of

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 al ...

. The village is administered by the

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.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census, Bhatian has a population of 687. The village has a literacy rate of 78.77%, higher than the average literacy rate of

. Most villagers belong to a Schedule Caste (SC), comprising 79.04% of the total.

Education

The village has a co-ed primary school (Pri Bhattian School) which provide a mid-day meal as per the Indian

Midday Meal Scheme The Midday Meal Scheme is a school meal programme in India designed to better the nutritional standing of school-age children nationwide. The programme supplies free lunches on working days for children in government primary and upper primary sc ...

Transport

Bhattian has a railway station which is from

Junction and away from the Goraya railway station. The nearest airport is located away in

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

. The nearest

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is located in Chandigarh.

References

Villages in Jalandhar district Villages in Phillaur tehsil {{Jalandhar-geo-stub