Sidhupur is a village in
Nakodar
Nakodar is a town and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab.
The city is almost 365 km from Delhi, 25 km from Jalandhar, 49 km from Ludhiana, and about 101 km from Amritsar. Surrounding villa ...
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 ...
of
Punjab
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, India. It is located from
Nakodar
Nakodar is a town and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab.
The city is almost 365 km from Delhi, 25 km from Jalandhar, 49 km from Ludhiana, and about 101 km from Amritsar. Surrounding villa ...
, from
Kapurthala
Kapurthala is a city in Punjab state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Kapurthala District. It was the capital of the Kapurthala State, a princely state in British India. The aesthetic mix of the city with its prominent build ...
, from district headquarter
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 ...
and from state capital
Chandigarh
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. The village is
administrated by a
sarpanch
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who is an
elected representative
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of village as per
Panchayati raj (India)
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It consists of the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) through which the self-gov ...
.
Demography
As of 2011, The village has a total number of 158 houses and population of 773 of which include 378 are males while 395 are females according to the report
published
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by
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in 2011. Literacy rate of the village is 83.90%, higher than state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 71 which is 9.18% of total population of the village, and child sex ratio is approximately 543 lower than the state average of 846.
Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constiSidhupures 17.32% of total population in the village. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.
As per census 2011, 224 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of the village which includes 189 males and 35 females. According to census survey report 2011, 99.55% workers describe their work as main work and 0.45% workers are involved in marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.
Transport
Nakodar railway station is the nearest
train station
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. The village is away from
domestic airport in
Ludhiana
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and the nearest
international airport
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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 ...
.
See also
*
List of villages in India
*
Jagga Jatt
Jagat Singh Virk( 1901/02–1931/32), better known as Jagga Jatt or Jagga Daku, was a 20th-century heroic rebel of Punjab. He is known as the Robin Hood of Punjab for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", as is typically believed about R ...
References
{{Jalandhar district
Villages in Jalandhar district