* Chatha is a village in
Batala
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in
Gurdaspur district
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of
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, India. 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.
* Chatha is a clan of
Jatts
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.
Demography
, The village has a total number of 176 houses and the population of 991 of which 542 are males while 449 are females according to the report
published
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by
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in 2011. The literacy rate of the village is 73.33%, lower than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 121 which is 12.21% of total population of the village, and child sex ratio is approximately 729 lower than the state average of 846.
See also
*
List of villages in India
References
Villages in Gurdaspur district
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