Patara is a village located in
Jalandhar district
Jalandhar district is a district in Doaba region of the state of Punjab, India. District headquarters is Jalandhar city.
Before the Partition of India, Jalandhar was also the headquarters of the Jalandhar Division, with constituent districts J ...
in the state of
Punjab
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in north
India
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Location
The village is located off the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur Road and is about 8-9 kilometres from the Jalandhar
Jalandhar is the third most-populous city in the Indian state of Punjab and the largest city in Doaba region. Jalandhar lies alongside the Grand Trunk Road and is a well-connected rail and road junction. Jalandhar is northwest of the state ...
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 St ...
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 descendents of Dullo Jatt. the Khunkhun Jatt families of Patara maintain the suffix of the two names, Nihala Ke descendents of Nihala and Ruldu Ke descendents 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 gurudwara
A gurdwara (sometimes written as gurudwara) (Gurmukhi: ਗੁਰਦੁਆਰਾ ''guradu'ārā'', meaning "Door to the Guru") is a place of assembly and worship for Sikhs. Sikhs also refer to gurdwaras as ''Gurdwara Sahib''. People from all faiths ...
at the end of the road: Gurdwara Peeplan Wala Sahib. There is also a Shiva
Shiva (; sa, शिव, lit=The Auspicious One, Śiva ), also known as Mahadeva (; ɐɦaːd̪eːʋɐ, or Hara, is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being in Shaivism, one of the major traditions within Hindu ...
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 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 ...
for 3 consecutive terms of 4 years each.
References
Villages in Jalandhar district
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