Chak Guru is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of

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State, India. It is located away from

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

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. 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, Chak Guru has a total number of 224 houses and population of 993 of which 518 include are males while 475 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 Chak Guru is 80.25%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 107 which is 10.78% of total population of Chak Guru, and

child sex ratio 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 (ratio of males to females in a population) in t ...

is approximately 574 as compared to Punjab state average of 846. Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 66.06% of total population in Chak Guru. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far. As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 406 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Chak Guru which includes 282 males and 124 females. According to census survey report 2011, 89.16% workers describe their work as main work and 10.84% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.

Education

The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed upper primary school founded in 1976. The schools provide mid-day meal which prepared in school premises. as per Indian

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. As per

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the school provide free education to children between the ages of 6 and 14. The village also has an English medium, co-ed primary with upper primary and secondary school which was founded in 1997. Sikh National College Banga and Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial college Mukandpur are the nearest colleges.

Landmarks and history

The village has a historical Sikh shrine Gurudwara Gurpartap where Guru Tegh Bahadur visited and dug a well after seeing the shortage of drinking water. The land to build gurudwara was given by Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Transport

Garhshankar Junction train station is the nearest train station however, Nawanshahr railway station is away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located away in

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and the nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh also

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is the second nearest airport which is away in

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