Chandu is a village in
Gurgaon
Gurgaon (pronunciation: ʊɽɡãːw, officially named Gurugram (pronunciation: ʊɾʊɡɾaːm, is a city located in the northern Indian state of Haryana. It is situated near the Delhi–Haryana border, about southwest of the nationa ...
Mandal in
Gurgaon District
Gurgaon district, officially known as Gurugram district, is one of the 22 districts of Haryana in northern India. The city of Gurgaon is the administrative headquarters of the district. The population is 1,514,432. It is one of the southern dist ...
in
Haryana State
Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ar ...
,
India
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. The main language of nearby villages is
Ahirvati. Other villages in the area include
Sikhohpur
Shikohpur( शिकोहपुर ) is a Yadav village in Gurgaon Mandal in Gurgaon District in Haryana State, India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by a ...
.
Notable residents
Pooja Sharma became the first woman in the village to work outside the house. In 2010 they took on a mansion (a
haveli
A ''haveli'' is a traditional townhouse, mansion, manor house, in the Indian subcontinent, usually one with historical and architectural significance, and located in a town or city. The word ''haveli'' is derived from Arabic ''hawali'', mean ...
) and they began to produce milk. She set up a self-help group with an all-women team after persuading her own husband and the husband's of her employees that this was OK. The women ground grains and cooked food and they sold products.
In 2022, Sharma went to Delhi to receive the
Nari Shakti Puraskar from the President of India.
References
Villages in Gurgaon district
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