Mirpur Jattan is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of

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State, India. It is located away from sub post office Jadla, 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

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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.

Demography

As of 2011, Mirpur Jattan has a total number of 465 houses and population of 2383 of which 1221 include are males while 1162 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The

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of Mirpur Jattan is 77.97% lower than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 295 which is 12.38% of total population of Mirpur Jattan, and

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is approximately 1034 as compared to Punjab state average of 846. Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 45.20% of total population in Mirpur Jattan. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far. As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 796 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Mirpur Jattan which includes 651 males and 145 females. According to census survey report 2011, 82.29% workers describe their work as main work and 17.71% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.

Education

The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed upper primary with secondary school established in 1975. 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. The village also has an KC Engineering College and Doaba Khalsa Trust Group Of Institutions are the nearest colleges. Industrial Training Institute for women (ITI Nawanshahr) is . The village is away from Chandigarh University, from

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and away from

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. ''List of schools nearby:'' *Guru Nanak Model School, Mirpur Jattan *Dashmesh Model School, Kahma *Govt Primary School,

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*Govt High School, Garcha

Homosexuality issue

In January 2006, The

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asked a female couple to leave the village after they suspected to be

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s by the villagers. According to the then

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 ...

Balihar Singh, the women's had married each other but both women's denied being in a lesbian relationship.

Transport

Nawanshahr train station is the nearest train station, however,

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Junction railway station is away from the village. Sahnewal Airport 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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