Patara is a village located in

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in the state of

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in north

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Location

The village is located off the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur Road and is about 8-9 kilometres from the

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city centre. Hoshiarpur is about 40 km from Patara. The

Jalandhar Cantonment Jalandhar Cantonment is a cantonment town in Jalandhar District in the Indian state of Punjab. The Cantonment is located between latitude 30° 18' and longitude 75° 37' on the southwest and at a distance of 2 km from Cantonment Railway S ...

is about 5 km from Patara.

History

Patara Village was founded by a wrestler by the name of Dullo, a Jatt Landlord belonging to Khunkhun Clan, nearly 500 years ago. Dullo Jatt, mothers village was Kangniwal near Jalandhar. Nihala and Ruldu were the descendants of Dullo Jatt. the Khunkhun Jatt families of Patara maintain the suffix of the two names, Nihala Ke descendants of Nihala and Ruldu Ke descendants of Ruldu.

Area information

Patara has a police station, a commercial centre, a nationalized Bank (Bank of India), a cooperative bank, a sub-Post Office (Indian Postal Service Pin Code 144101) and Verka milk producers society and milk bar for various milk products various shops and service providers. There is a small

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at the end of the road: Gurdwara Peeplan Wala Sahib. There is also a

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temple right across the gurdwara. There is separate boys and girls school in village. There is also library in the village. On Patara road just before there is newly opened petrol pump between Hosiharpur-Jalandhar road and Bolina doaba railway station. The streets are fairly narrow and suitable for single-lane driving only. The land around the village is flat and fertile. Much of the development of the village was carried out under the leadership of Om Parkash who was unanimously elected

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for 3 consecutive terms of 4 years each.

References

Villages in Jalandhar district {{Jalandhar-geo-stub