Katt is a village in
Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of
Punjab
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, India. It is located away from postal head office
Banga, from
Nawanshahr, from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and from state capital
Chandigarh
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. The village is administrated by
Sarpanch
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an elected representative of the village.
Demography
As of 2011, Katt has a total number of 213 houses and population of 1029 of which 530 include are males while 499 are females according to the report published by
Census India in 2011. The
literacy rate
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of Katt is 82.47% higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 99 which is 9.62% of total population of Katt, and
child sex ratio
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is approximately 1020 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.
Most of the people are from
Schedule Caste which constitutes 38.87% of total population in Katt. The town does not have any
Schedule Tribe population so far.
As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 309 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Katt which includes 382 males and 27 females. According to census survey report 2011, 88.67% workers describe their work as main work and 11.33% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing
livelihood
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for less than 6 months.
Education
The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed upper primary school established in 2001.
The school provide
mid-day meal as per Indian
Midday Meal Scheme
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. As per
Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act the school provide free education to children between the ages of 6 and 14. The village also has an privet un-aided Punjabi medium, co-ed primary with upper primary school established in 2003.
Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial college Mukandpur and Sikh National College Banga are the nearest colleges. Industrial Training Institute for women (ITI Nawanshahr) is
The village is from
Indian Institute of Technology
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and away from
Lovely Professional University
Lovely Professional University (LPU) is a private university located in Phagwara, Punjab, India. Established under the Lovely Professional University Act, 2005, it commenced operations in 2006.
LPU is accredited by the University Grants Commi ...
.
Transport
Banga railway station is the nearest train station however,
Phagwara Junction railway station is away from the village.
Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located away in
Ludhiana
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and the nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh also
Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport
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is the second nearest airport which is away in
Amritsar
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.
See also
*
List of villages in India
References
External links
Tourism of PunjabCensus of PunjabLocality Based PINCode{{Nawanshahr district
Villages in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district