Cheema Khurd is a village in
Phillaur
Phillaur is a city and a municipal council as well as a tehsil in Jalandhar district in the Indian States and territories of India, state of Punjab, India, Punjab.
Overview
Phillaur is the railway junction on the border line of Ludhiana Main ...
in
Jalandhar district of
Punjab
Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising ...
State, India. In the Persian language, ''Kalan'' is translated as 'big' and ''Khurd'' as 'small'. Cheema Khurd is situated beside
Cheema Kalan.
It is located from the sub district headquarter and from district headquarter. The village is
administrated by
Sarpanch
A sarpanch ( IAST: ''Sarpañch'' Hindi: ''सरपंच'') or Gram Pradhan or Mukhiya is a decision-maker, elected by the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the Gram Sabha (village government) in India. The Sarp ...
, an elected representative of the village.
Demography
, the village has a total number of 240 houses and the population of 1105 of which 550 are males while 555 are females.
According to the report
published by
Census India in 2011, out of the total population of the village 521 people are from
Schedule Caste and the village does not have any
Schedule Tribe population so far.
Dutch international cricketer
Vikramjit Singh
Vikramjit Singh (born 9 January 2003) is a Dutch cricketer. He has played for the Netherlands national cricket team since 2019 as a left-handed opening batsman.
Personal life
Singh was born on 9 January 2003 in Cheema Khurd, Punjab, India to ...
was born in the village.
Notable People
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Vikramjit Singh
Vikramjit Singh (born 9 January 2003) is a Dutch cricketer. He has played for the Netherlands national cricket team since 2019 as a left-handed opening batsman.
Personal life
Singh was born on 9 January 2003 in Cheema Khurd, Punjab, India to ...
– Netherlands Cricketer
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Ranjit Cheema
Ranjit Singh Cheema (died 2 May 2012) was a Vancouver-based Indo-Canadian gangster, drug trader and longtime under-world rival of notorious gangster and former Cheema disciple, Bindy Johal. He was involved in organized crime for over two-deca ...
Canadian gangster
See also
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List of villages in India Villages
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian ...
References
External links
Tourism of PunjabCensus of Punjab
Villages in Jalandhar district
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