Rampur, SBS Nagar

Rampur is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located away from sub post office Ladhana Jhikka, 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, Rampur has a total number of 158 houses and population of 703 of which 337 include are males while 366 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Rampur is 85.58% higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 58 which is 8.25% of total population of Rampur, and child sex ratio is approximately 657 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 30.87% of total population in Rampur. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.

As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 194 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Rampur which includes 180 males and 14 females. According to census survey report 2011, 98.97% workers describe their work as main work and 1.03% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.

Education

The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed primary school established in 1954. The school provide mid-day meal which prepared in school premisesas per Indian Midday Meal Scheme. As per Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act the school provide free education to children between the ages of 6 and 14.

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