Sarhali is a town and a

municipal council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough cou ...

in Patti subdivision of

Tarn Taran district Tarn Taran district is one of the districts in the Majha region of Punjab, India. The main cities are Tarn Taran Sahib, Bhikhiwind, Khadur Sahib and Patti. The City of Tarn Taran Sahib is a holy place for Sikhs. Tarn Taran's Sikh populatio ...

in the

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of Punjab.

Education

Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College in Sarhali, affiliated to the Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, was established in 1970.

Notable people

Baba Gurdit Singh Baba Gurdit Singh (25 August 1860 – 24 July 1954) was the central figure in the Komagata Maru incident of 1914, one of several incidents in the history of the early 20th century involving exclusion laws in both Canada and the United States d ...

Praveen Kumar Sobti Praveen Kumar Sobti (6 December 1947 – 7 February 2022) was an Indian hammer and discus thrower, actor, politician, and soldier with Border Security Force. As a 20-year-old he joined then newly raised Border Security Force from where he ...

- athlete, film actor, politician, and soldier

References

External links

District Census Handbook Tarn Taran 2011 – Village and Town Wise Primary Census Abstract
Cities and towns in Tarn Taran district {{PunjabIN-geo-stub