Aasa Buttar is a small village in the Giddarbaha Tehsil of

Sri Muktsar Sahib district Sri Muktsar Sahib district, colloquially known by the city's former name Muktsar; is one of the 23 districts in the Indian state of Punjab. The city was renamed from Muktsar to Sri Muktsar Sahib. The district itself was historically referred as ...

of Eastern Punjab. The village is dominated by the Jatt people of Buttar clan.

Demographics

According to the 2001 census, the village had a population of 2,692 with 464 households, 1,393 males and 1,299 females. Thus males constitutes 52% and females 48% of total population with the sex ratio of 933 females per thousand males.

Geography

Aasa Buttar is situated at , only 18 km from the district main city of

Sri Muktsar Sahib Sri Muktsar Sahib (/ʃriː ˈmʊktsər saːhɪb/) (often referred to as Muktsar (/ˈmʊktsər/)) is a historical city and district headquarters in Punjab, India. The 2011 Census of India put the total population of Sri Muktsar Sahib municipality ...

. Bhuttiwala (3.5 km), Surewala (4 km) and Doda (12.5 km) are the surrounding villages.

Religion

Sikhism is the main faith of the village. All

Jatts The Jat people ((), ()) are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralism, pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval time ...

of the village are

Sikh Sikhs ( or ; pa, ਸਿੱਖ, ' ) are people who adhere to Sikhism, Sikhism (Sikhi), a Monotheism, monotheistic religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Gu ...

Economy

Being a rural area of Punjab, agriculture is the main source of income for all Jatt people of the village.

References

{{Sri Muktsar Sahib district Villages in Sri Muktsar Sahib district