Galib Kalan is a village in

Jagraon Jagraon is a city and a municipal council, a rural police district and a sub-division of the Ludhiana district in the Indian state of Punjab. Jagraon is more than three centuries old. It has been thought that the city's original name was Jagar ...

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, India. It is located from Moga, from

Nakodar Nakodar is a town and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab. The city is almost 365 km from Delhi, 25 km from Jalandhar, 49 km from Ludhiana, and about 101 km from Amritsar. Surrounding villa ...

, from district headquarter

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and from state capital

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. The village is administrated by

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an elected representative of the village.

Demography

, The village has a total number of 1316 houses and the population of 6825 of which 3579 are males while 3246 are females according to the report

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in 2011. The literacy rate of the village is 7311%, lower than the state average of 80.36%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 759 which is 11.12% of total population of the village, and child sex ratio is approximately 568 lower than the state average of 846. Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 44.84% of total population in the village. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far. As per census 2011, 2,060 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of the village which includes 1913 males and 147 females. According to census survey report 2011, 97.57% workers describe their work as main work and 2.43% workers are involved in marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.

Transport

Nanaksar railway station is the nearest

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. The village is away from domestic airport in

and away from

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is located 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

{{Ludhiana district Villages in Ludhiana district

Demography

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