Country India District Jalandhar Elevation 240 m (790 ft) | State Punjab Tehsil Shahkot Time zone IST (UTC+5:30) | |
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Saleman is a village in Shahkot in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from Shahkot, 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Nakodar, 36 kilometres (22 mi) from district headquarter Jalandhar and 164 kilometres (102 mi) from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.
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Demography
As of 2011, Qadian has a total number of 73 houses and population of 377 of which include 187 are males while 190 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. Literacy rate of the village is 81.60%, higher than state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 40 which is 10.61% of total population of the village, and child sex ratio is approximately 1000 higher than state average of 846.
Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 16.18% of total population in the village. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.
As per census 2011, 154 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of the village which includes 108 males and 46 females. According to census survey report 2011, 98.70% workers describe their work as main work and 1.30% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.
Transport
Shahkot Malisian station is the nearest train station. The village is 70 kilometres (43 mi) away from domestic airport 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 115 kilometres (71 mi) away in Amritsar.