Poonian

Poonian is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located away from sub post office Banga, from Nawanshahr, from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.

Demography

As of 2011, Poonian has a total number of 206 houses and population of 942 of which 492 include are males while 450 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Poonian is 75.30% lower than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 112 which is 11.89% of total population of Poonian, and child sex ratio is approximately 836 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 17.20% of total population in Poonian. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.

As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 314 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Poonian which includes 278 males and 36 females. According to census survey report 2011, 89.49% workers describe their work as main work and 10.51% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.

Education

sikh national college Banga
sghps Banga
sssc Banga
women college banga
Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial college Mukandpur, 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 Indian Institute of Technology and away from Lovely Professional University.

''List of schools nearby:''
*Govt Senior Secondary School, Ladhana Jhikka
*Dashmesh Model School, Kahma
*Govt High School, Jhander Kalan
*Govt Gigh School, Khan Khana
*Guru Ram Dass Public School, Cheta

Transport

Banga train station is the nearest train station however, Garhshankar Junction railway station is away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located away in Ludhiana and the nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh also Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport is the second nearest airport which is away in Amritsar.

See also

*List of villages in India

References

External links

Tourism of Punjab

Census of Punjab

Locality Based PINCode

{{Nawanshahr district

Villages in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district