Kharar is a town and a
municipal council
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in
Mohali district
Mohali district, officially known as Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district or SAS Nagar district, is one of the twenty three districts of Punjab, a state in north-west India.
It was formed in April 2006''SAS Nagar to become a district'': Retrie ...
in the
state
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of
Punjab
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,
India
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. It is nearby
Mohali city. Kharar is located at and has an average elevation of 309 metres (1,014 feet). The area of Kharar is part of the "
Greater Mohali" region.
Demographics
Close to 60% of the people in Kharar are
Sikhs
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making it the second Sikh majority town in the
Greater Mohali region after
Mohali
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.
Kharar is a block situated in the
Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district in
Punjab
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. Positioned in the urban region of Punjab, it is among the 4 blocks of
Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district. As per the government records, the block code of Kharar is 129. This block has 150 villages, and there are a total of 44,620 families.
The table below shows the population of different religious groups in Kharar city, as of 2011 census.
Education
There are many educational institutions established from British Raj till post independence in Kharar.
*Christian boys high school, Kharar established in 1891 and the school was headed by principal RW Ryburn .
*Khalsa senior secondary school, Kharar was established in 1920
*Arya senior secondary school and women college, Kharar was established in 1968 by Arya pratinidi sabha, Jalandhar.
*Henderson Jubilee senior secondary school, Kharar was established in 1975.
*IPS senior secondary school, Badala Road Kharar
*Vickram public high school kharar
*Lawerance public senior secondary school, sector-51
Kharar also have many universities, engineering colleges and a dental college in its vicinity, such as:
*
Rayat Bahra University,
Sahauran
*
Chandigarh University, Gharuan
*
Chandigarh Group of Colleges, Landran and Jhanjheri
* Doaba Group of Colleges,
Sahauran
*
Guru Gobind Singh College of Modern Technology, Khanpur
*
Shaheed Udham Singh College of Engineering & Technology, Tangori
* Government Polytechnic College, Khunimajra
Medical testing
Kharar has Punjab's only State Chemical Testing Laboratory which can perform viscera examination and a Forensic Laboratory, helpful for speedy justice in legal cases.
Kharar has its own government hospital as well. It is situated in the north end of the city.
Commerce
Virtuous Retail Punjab Mall (VR Punjab Mall) (formerly known as North Country Mall) in Kharar is one of the largest
shopping mall
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s with an area of 2 million
sq ft.
Village Nada, Tehsil- Kharar Distt- Mohali-160103
See also
*
Greater Mohali
*
New Chandigarh
References
{{Ajitgarh district
Cities and towns in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district