Bhalaiana, sometimes spelled Bhallaiana is a village in the

Giddarbaha Giddarbaha is a town and a municipal council in Muktsar district, in the Indian state of Punjab. It is from the city of Malout, from the city of Bathinda and from the city of Muktsar. It lies on NH-7, which connects Fazilka (Punjab) to Ma ...

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 ...

Sri Muktsar Sahib district Sri Muktsar Sahib district is one of the 23 districts in the Indian state of Punjab. The capital city of district is Sri Muktsar Sahib. The district itself was historically referred to as Khidrane Di Dhaab. There are four tehsils in the district ...

in Eastern Punjab, India.

Geography

Bhalaiana is situated at ,The coordinates by google maps in the

Indian Punjab Punjab () is a state in northwestern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the north and northeast, Haryana to the south and southeast, a ...

, having an average

elevation The elevation of a geographic location (geography), ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational equipotenti ...

of 186 metres (610 ft).

Demographic

At the 2001 census, the village had a total population of 6,550 in 1,093 households, of whom 3,459 were males and 3,091 females. Thus males constituted 53% and females 47% of the population with the

sex ratio A sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which reproduce sexually. However, many species deviate from an even sex ratio, ei ...

of 894 females per thousand males.

Economy & others

Agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

is the main occupation of the villagers, some of them have their own general and medical stores.
The village has a branch of the

State Bank of Patiala State Bank of Patiala, founded in 1917, was an associate bank of the State Bank Group. It merged with State Bank of India on 1 April 2017. At the time of its merger, State Bank of Patiala had a network of 1445 service outlets, including 1314 ...

References

Villages in Sri Muktsar Sahib district {{PunjabIN-geo-stub