Kahma is a village in

Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar 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 district ...

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, India. It is situated on Phagwara-Mohali expressway located away from

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, from

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 ...

, from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and 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

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.

Demography

As of 2011, Kahma has a total number of 700 houses and population of 3320 of which 1690 include are males while 1630 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The

literacy rate 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 ...

of Kahma is 80.83%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 321 which is 9.67% of total population of Kahma, and

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is approximately 845 as compared to Punjab state average of 846. Most of the people are from

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which constitutes 45.57% of total population in Kahma. The town does not have any

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population so far. As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 1009 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Kahma which includes 887 males and 122 females. According to census survey report 2011, 94.35% workers describe their work as main work and 5.65% workers are involved in marginal activity providing

livelihood A person's livelihood (derived from ''life-lode'', "way of life"; cf. OG ''lib-leit'') refers to their "means of securing the basic necessities (food, water, shelter and clothing) of life". Livelihood is defined as a set of activities essential t ...

for less than 6 months. (Vallage has one mahahasti ram kutyia ) it’s located just out side of Valley on Musapur road.

Education

The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed upper primary with secondary/higher secondary school founded in 1940. The school provide mid-day meal as per Indian

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. As per

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the school provide free education to children between the ages of 6 and 14. Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial college Mukandpur and Sikh National College Banga are the nearest colleges.

Lovely Professional University Lovely Professional University (LPU) is a private university located in Chaheru, Phagwara, Punjab, India, Punjab, India. The university was established in 2005 by Lovely International Trust, under The Lovely Professional University Act, 2005 (Pu ...

is away from the village. ''List of schools nearby:'' *Dashmesh Model School, Kahma *Govt High School,

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*Sat Modern Public School, Mangat Dingrian *Guru Teg Bahadur Model School, Behram *Guru Ram Dass Public School, Cheta *Lovely Public School, Pathlawa

Transport

Khatkar Kalan Jhandaji railway station is the nearest train station however,

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Junction railway station is away from the village.

Sahnewal Airport Ludhiana Airport is the regional airport serving the city of Ludhiana and other sub-cities of Ludhiana District in Punjab. It is near the town of Sahnewal, southeast of Ludhiana on the Grand Trunk Road The Grand Trunk Road (formerly k ...

is the nearest domestic airport which located 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 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 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 ...

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Tourism of Punjab

Census of Punjab

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{{Nawanshahr district Villages in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district

Demography

Education

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