Hansali Sahib village is located in the

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

of Fatehgarh Sahib in

Fatehgarh Sahib district Fatehgarh Sahib district is one of the twenty-three districts of the state of Punjab, India, with its headquarters in the town of Fatehgarh Sahib. The district came into existence on 13April 1992, Baisakhi Day and derives its name from Sahib ...

in the state of the

Punjab, India Punjab (; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in northern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the States and union territories of India, Indian states of Himachal ...

. It is situated away from Fatehgarh Sahib, which is both district and sub-district headquarters for Hansali village. Governance of the village is by

gram panchayat Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...

. The total

geographical area The geographic coordinate system (GCS) is a spherical or ellipsoidal coordinate system for measuring and communicating positions directly on the Earth as latitude and longitude. It is the simplest, oldest and most widely used of the various ...

of Hansali is .

Fatehgarh Sahib Fatehgarh Sahib is a city and a sacred pilgrimage site of Sikhism in the north west Indian state of Punjab. It is the headquarters of Fatehgarh Sahib district, located about north of Sirhind. Fatehgarh Sahib is named after Fateh Singh, the 7-y ...

is also the nearest town to Hansali.

Demographics

The total population of Hansali is 802 people in 160 separate houses. Hansali village has a female population which is 48.3% of the total. The village

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 is 74.6% overall. For males of reading age (over 6 years old) the rate is 77.4%; for females the comparable rate is 71.6%. The female to male literacy gap is 5.8%, which compares favourably to the overall gap for the Kera

CD block In India, a Community development block (CD block) or simply Block is a sub-division of Tehsil, administratively earmarked for planning and development. The area is administered by a Block Development Officer (BDO), supported by several technic ...

, in which Hansali sits, of 9.04%.

Location and surrounds

Hansali is in

tehsil, and in the Fatehgarh Sahib district of Punjab State, India. It is located to the east of the district headquarters at Fatehgarh Sahib, from Khera, and from the 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 ...

. Neighbouring the village are the surrounding locations of Fatehgarh Sahib and

Sirhind Sirhind-Fategarh is a town and a municipal council in the Fatehgarh Sahib district in the Indian state of Punjab. Demographics In the 2011 census Sirhind-Fatehgarh had a population of 60852. Males constituted 54% of the population and female ...

tehsils, both to the west,

Bassi Pathana Bassi Pathana is a historical city and a municipal council in Fatehgarh Sahib district in the state of Punjab, India. Bassi Pathana is the founder of First Sewing Machine and its hole sole parts Manufacture. In the year 1920, this city created a ...

to the north, and Rajpura to the east. Also nearby are the cities of Morinda, Kharar and

Khanna, Ludhiana Khanna is a city and a municipal council in the Ludhiana district of the Indian state of Punjab. It is well known for being Asia's largest grain market.. KHANNA It is a city which centers a national highway and buildings settled around a web o ...

. Hansali lies on the border of two districts: the Fatehgarh Sahib District and the

Nawanshahr District Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district is one of twenty-three districts of state of Punjab, India. It is located in Doaba region. It consists of three subdivisions, Nawanshahr, Banga, and Balachaur. There are three legislative seats in the distr ...

; it is very close to a third,

Rupnagar district Rupnagar district is one of twenty-two districts in the state of Punjab, India. The city of Rupnagar is said to have been founded by a Raja called Rokeshar, who ruled during the 11th century and named it after his son Rup Sen. It is also the ...

, formerly Ropar.

Nawanshahr Nawanshahr is a municipal council in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Punjab. It was previously a town that became a district in 1995. History Nawanshahr was founded by migrants from Rahon, a city located near the S ...

sub-district, and the ancient village of Saroya are to the north of Hansali.

Notable people

Sant Ajit Singh Hansali

Baba Ajit Singh Hansaliwale Sahib ( – 1 January 2015) made his home in Hansali for many years, until his death on the first day of 2015. His birthplace was the village of Bharatgarh in the

Ropar Rupnagar (; formerly known as Ropar is a city and a municipal council in Rupnagar district in the Indian state of Punjab. Rupnagar is a newly created fifth Divisional Headquarters of Punjab comprising Rupnagar, Mohali, and its adjoining distr ...

district. A widely-known and revered Sikh figure, and a Nirmala devotee, the Baba Sahib was head of the Nirmal

Dera Dera, Dero, Daro, Dhoro, Dahar or Dehra is a word in several languages of South Asia, whose meaning is 'camp', 'mound' or 'settlement'. It appears in the names of a number of places. Geography India * Dera, Himachal Pradesh * Dera Bassi, Mohali ...

trust. The trust sets up community resources and runs charitable projects, including a free hospital, a school, and a girls' college and hostel on the

Punjabi University Guru Kashi Campus , mottoeng = Education Empowers , established = 1988 , type = Public State University , faculty = 110+ , chancellor = V.P. Singh Badnore, Governor, Punjab , vice_chancellor= Prof. Arvind , head_label = , head = , city = Talwandi Sab ...

Notes

References

Villages in Fatehgarh Sahib district {{PunjabIN-geo-stub