Country India Elevation 254 m (833 ft) PIN 144513 Area code 01823 | State Punjab Time zone IST (UTC+5:30) Population 654 (2011) Government body Gram panchayat | |
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District Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar | ||
Chahar Mazara (Punjabi: ਚਾਹਰ ਮਜ਼ਾਰਾ) is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) away from postal head office Nawanshahr, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Banga, 29 kilometres (18 mi) from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and 87 kilometres (54 mi) from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.
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Map of Chahar Mazara, Punjab 144515
Demography
As of 2011, Chahar Mazara has a total number of 103 houses and population of 552 of which 270 include are males while 282 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Chahar Mazara is 74.90%, lower than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 46 which is 8.33% of total population of Chahar Mazara, and child sex ratio is approximately 840 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.
Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 35.33% of total population in Chahar Mazara. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.
As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 202 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Chahar Mazara which includes 170 males and 32 females. According to census survey report 2011, 69.31% workers describe their work as main work and 30.69% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.
Education
The village has a Hindi medium, co-ed upper primary with secondary school founded in 1954. The schools provide mid-day meal which prepared in school premises as per Indian Midday Meal Scheme and the meal prepared in school premises. 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.
KC Engineering College and Doaba Khalsa Trust Group Of Institutions are the nearest colleges. Industrial Training Institute for women (ITI Nawanshahr) is 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) away from the village. Lovely Professional University is 61 kilometres (38 mi) away from the village.
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Transport
Nawanshahr railway station is the nearest train station however, Garhshankar Junction railway station is 27 kilometres (17 mi) away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located 48 kilometres (30 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 168 kilometres (104 mi) away in Amritsar.