Shankar is a village in the

Nakodar Nakodar is a town and a municipal council in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab (India), Punjab. The city is almost 365 km from Delhi, 25 km from Jalandhar, 49 km from Ludhiana, and about 101 km from Amritsar. S ...

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...

Jalandhar district Jalandhar district is a district in Doaba region of the state of Punjab, India. The district headquarters is the city of Jalandhar. Before the Partition of India, Jalandhar was also the headquarters of the Jalandhar Division, with constituent ...

Punjab, India Punjab () is a States and union territories of India, state in northwestern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab, Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the States and union territories of India, Indian states ...

Demographics

According to the 2011 Census of India, Shankar village had 1,186 households and a total population of 5,639, of which 2,900 were male and 2,739 were female. Children aged 0–6 numbered 538 (9.54 % of the total population), with a child sex ratio of 842 girls per 1,000 boys, lower than the Punjab state average of 846. The overall sex ratio of Shankar was 944 females per 1,000 males, higher than the state average of 895. The village’s literacy rate stood at 83.00 %, exceeding the Punjab average of 75.84 %; male literacy was 87.27 %, while female literacy was 78.54 %.

Notable persons

Swaran Singh Sardar Swaran Singh (19 August 1907 – 30 October 1994) was an Indian politician. He was India's second longest-serving union cabinet minister after Jagjivan Ram. Early life Swaran Singh Purewal was born on 19 August 1907 in Shankar (vil ...

is India's longest-serving union cabinet minister.

References

Villages in Jalandhar district Villages in Nakodar tehsil {{Jalandhar-geo-stub