Kultham is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar 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 away from Banga, from Phagwara, from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and from state capital

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. 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. World famous singer Avtar Singh Kang aka A.S.Kang was born in this village and later went to United Kingdom.

Demography

As of 2011, Kultham has a total number of 523 houses and population of 2511 of which 1295 include are males while 1216 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The

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of Kultham is 78.91%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 211 which is 8.40% of total population of Kultham, and

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is approximately 803 as compared to Punjab state average of 846. Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 66.15% of total population in Kultham. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far. As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 716 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Kultham which includes 675 males and 41 females. According to census survey report 2011, 98.74% workers describe their work as main work and 1.26% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.

Education

The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed primary school established in 1938. The schools provide mid-day meal as per Indian

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. The school provide free education to children between the ages of 6 and 14 as per

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. The village also has an privet un-aided Punjabi medium, co-ed upper primary with secondary school which was established in 1960. Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial college Mukandpur and Sikh National College Banga are the nearest colleges. Industrial Training Institute for women (ITI Nawanshahr) is The village is from

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and away from

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 ...

Transport

The village has a railway station (Kulthamabdullashah Halt) which is named after Abdullah Shah Qadri and located from State Highway 18. Phagwara Junction train station is away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport 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 ...

Kultham.ml - Website

The village has a private website which collects data that otherwise would be near impossible. http://kultham.ml/ was created by the subsection of Asia Foundation.

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