Mansurpur is a village in

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tehsil of

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, India. It is located 4 km away from postal head office Bara Pind. The village is 6 km away from

Goraya Goraya is a city in Jalandhar district and Tehsil of the Indian state of Punjab. It lies between Jalandhar and (Ludhiana) stretch of National Highway 44 (Old NH 1), Grand Trunk Road. Demography , the town has a total number of 3590 hous ...

, 9 km from Phillaur, 39 km from Jalandhar, and 121 km from state capital

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. 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 the elected representative of the village. Sidhu, Dhaliwal, Mall, Jandu, Sandhu are main gotra in the village.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census, The village has a population of 1273. 651 are males, while 622 are females. Mansurpur has a literacy rate of 80.94%, higher than the average literacy rate of

. Most villagers belong to a Schedule Caste (SC), comprising 72.58% of the total.

Education

Mansurpur has a co-ed upper primary with Secondary school which was founded in 1972. Schools in Mansurpur provide a mid-day meal as per the Indian

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Transport

Rail

Ludhiana Junction railway station is 24 km away from the village however Bhatian

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is located 3 km away.

Air

The nearest domestic airport is 41 km away in

Ludhiana Ludhiana ( ) is the most populous and the largest city in the Indian state of Punjab. The city has an estimated population of 1,618,879 2011 census and distributed over , making Ludhiana the most densely populated urban centre in the state. I ...

and the nearest international airport is 134 km away in Amritsar other nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh.

References

{{Jalandhar district Villages in Jalandhar district Villages in Phillaur tehsil