Dadu is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

located in

Kalanwali Kalanwali is a town with a municipal committee in Sirsa district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Haryana. Being very near the Punjab border, most of the people in this area have Haryanvi language, Haryanvi, Hindi and Punj ...

tehsil of

Sirsa District Sirsa district is the largest district by area in Haryana state, India. Sirsa is the district headquarters. It is located on National Highway 9 and from the capital Delhi. On 1 September 1975, Sirsa became a district by taking Sirsa and Dabw ...

Haryana Haryana () is a States and union territories of India, state located in the northern part of India. It was carved out after the linguistic reorganisation of Punjab, India, Punjab on 1 November 1966. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with les ...

India India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...

. It is situated at 42 km north of its district capital

Sirsa Sirsa is a city and a municipal council in Sirsa district in the westernmost region of the Indian state of Haryana, bordering Punjab and Rajasthan. It is located near the Thar Desert, 250 kilometres north-west of New Delhi and 260 kilometers s ...

, and 8 km southeast of Kalanwali and 18 km from Takhat Sri Damdama Sahib. The village is near the northern edge of Haryana, and borders

Bathinda District Bathinda district is in Malwa region of Punjab, India. The district encompasses an area of 3,385 square kilometers. By area, Bathinda district is the second-largest in Punjab, after Ludhiana district. It is bounded by Faridkot district and ...

Punjab Punjab (; ; also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb) is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern Pakistan and no ...

to its north.

Demographics

According to the 2011 Indian Census, Dadu has a total population of 3,604 people, of which 1,871 are male and 1,733 are female. The literacy rate of Dadu village is 53.88%, with 60.24% of the males and 47.03% of the females being literate. There are about 671 houses in Dadu. Dadu village falls under Kalanwali Assembly Constituency and Sirsa Assembly Constituency. Kalanwali is the nearest town to Dadu for all major economic activities.

Education

The village has a public senior secondary school, which was established as a primary school in 1949.

Nearby villages

There are several villages near Dadu, including Dharmapura, Kewal, Takhatmal, Tilokewala, Pakka Shaheedhan, Khatawan, Taruana and Kamal. Its nearest towns are

and

Talwandi Sabo Talwandi Sabo (also known historically as Guru Kashi) is a town and Municipal Council, in Bathinda District, Punjab, India. It is famous for being the town in which one of the five Takhts of Sikhism where Takht Sri Damdama Sahib. It is also fam ...

References

{{Reflist Villages in Sirsa district