Cholang is a village in Jalandhar district of

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...

State, India. It is located 39.7 km away from

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 ...

, 16.4 km from district headquarter

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 ...

and 140 km 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 al ...

. The village is administrated by a

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 ...

who is an elected representative of village as per

Panchayati raj (India) Panchayati Raj (Council of five officials) is the system of local self-government of villages in rural India as opposed to urban and suburban municipalities. It consists of the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) through which the self-gov ...

Education

The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed primary school (PRI Cholang School). The school provide mid-day meal as per 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 ...

and the meal prepared in school premises and it was found in 1962.

Demography

As of 2011, Cholang has a total number of 72 houses and population of 435 of which 223 are males while 212 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011.

Literacy 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 ...

rate of Cholang is 70.94%, lower than state average of 86.83%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 53 which is 12.18% of total population of Cholang, and child sex ratio is approximately 893 higher than state average of 846. Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 61.15% of total population in Cholang. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far. As per census 2011, 99 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Cholang which includes 95 males and 4 females. According to census survey report 2011, 95.96% workers describe their work as main work and 4.04% workers are involved in marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.

Transport

Rail

Cholang has a railway station operated by Northern Railway, Ferozpur Division. It is located on Pathankot-Jalandhar Line. 6 passenger trains have a hault here. One can get to Pathankot, Jalandhar and Amritsar by these trains. Tanda Urmar is the nearest station to get direct train to Delhi.

Air

The nearest domestic airport is located 68 km 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 ...

and the nearest

international airport An international airport is an airport with customs and border control facilities enabling passengers to travel between countries around the world. International airports are usually larger than domestic airports and they must feature longer ...

is located in Chandigarh also

Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport is an international airport serving Amritsar, Punjab, India, located 11 km (7 mi) north-west from the city centre. It is named after Guru Ram Das, the fourth Sikh Guru and the founder of Amritsar. The ...

is the second nearest airport which is 112 km away in

Amritsar Amritsar (), historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as ''Ambarsar'', is the second largest city in the Indian state of Punjab, after Ludhiana. It is a major cultural, transportation and economic centre, located in the Majha r ...

References

{{Jalandhar district Villages in Jalandhar district