Kala Bakra village comes under the
Bhogpur development block of
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 ...
in the Indian state of
Punjab
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. Its name means "black goat".
About
Kala Bakra lies on the
Jalandhar
Jalandhar () is a city in the state of Punjab, India, Punjab in India. With a considerable population, it ranks as the List of cities in Punjab and Chandigarh by population, third most-populous city in the state and is the largest city in the ...
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Pathankot
Pathankot () is a city and the district headquarters of the Pathankot district in Punjab, India. Pathankot is the sixth most populous city of Punjab, after Ludhiana, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Patiala and Bathinda. Its local government is a municipal ...
road. Its area is 454 hectares with a population of 2,456 individuals (according to the 1991 census). The village has its own primary and secondary school, railway station and government hospital. Kala Bakra is locally known as the home of Gurbachan Singh Rai, a local wrestling champion and officer in the
British Indian Army
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who was award the
Order of British India Medal for his service. The Rai family remain prominent in the village today.
Post Code and STD Code
Kala Bakra's post and STD codes are 144303 and 0181 respectively.
See also
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Aemakazi
References
Villages in Jalandhar district
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