Bharo Mazara

Bharo Mazara
ਭਰੋ ਮਜ਼ਰਾ
Village
Bharo Mazara
Bharo Mazara

Location in Punjab, India

Coordinates: 31°09′38″N 75°59′35″E / 31.1606402°N 75.9930345°E / 31.1606402; 75.9930345Coordinates: 31°09′38″N 75°59′35″E / 31.1606402°N 75.9930345°E / 31.1606402; 75.9930345
Country  India
State Punjab
District Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar
Government
  Type Panchayat raj
  Body Gram panchayat
Elevation 254 m (833 ft)
Population (2011)
  Total 1,662[1]
  Sex ratio 881/781 /
Languages
  Official Punjabi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 144504
Telephone code 01823
ISO 3166 code IN-PB
Post office Behram[2]
Website nawanshahr.nic.in

Bharo Mazara (Punjabi: ਭਰੋ ਮਜ਼ਰਾ) is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) away from postal head office Behram, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) from Banga, 13.6 kilometres (8.5 mi) from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and 107 kilometres (66 mi) from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.[3]

Demography

As of 2011, Bharo Mazara has a total number of 353 houses and population of 1662of which 881 include are males while 781 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Bharo Mazara is 80.44%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 164 which is 9.87% of total population of Bharo Mazara, and child sex ratio is approximately 1216 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.[1][4]

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 72.74% of total population in Bharo Mazara. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.[1]

As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 641 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Bharo Mazara which includes 482 males and 159 females. According to census survey report 2011, 77.22% workers describe their work as main work and 22.78% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.[1]

Education

The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed upper primary school founded on 2001.[5][6] The school provide mid-day meal as per Indian Midday Meal Scheme.[7] The school provide free education to children between the ages of 6 and 14 as per Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act.

Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial college Mukandpur and Sikh National College Banga are the nearest colleges.[5] Lovely Professional University is 34 kilometres (21 mi) away from the village.

Transport

Banga railway station is the nearest train station however, Nawanshahr railway station is 17 kilometres (11 mi) away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located 58 kilometres (36 mi) 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 142 kilometres (88 mi) away in Amritsar.[8]

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