Sansarpur is a village in
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
India
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state
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of
Punjab
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Demographics
India
census
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, Sansarpur had a population of 4061. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Sansarpur has an average literacy rate of 75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 71%. In Sansarpur, 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Sports
Among all the Indian villages, Sansarpur has produced the largest number of Olympians for the country. The village in its heyday produced 14 Hockey Olympic players, who represented India, Kenya and Canada at the Olympics.
In one particular Olympics, 7 players from Sansarpur represented their respective countries. 5 from India and 2 from
Kenya
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. In present-day Sansarpur though due to the lack of support from the Indian government and lack of facilities like astro turf, the standard of Hockey players emerging from this village is falling.
Notable people
The village has given more than 306 international and national level hockey players to India out of which more than 200 belong to one family of the village. Several of the India's notable field hockey players who hail from or trace their family origins from Sansarpur are:
India
* Thakur Singh Kular,
(India tour of New Zealand 1926)
*
Gurmit Singh Kullar, Olympian (1932)
*
Udham Singh Kular, Olympian (1952, 1956, 1960, 1964)
*
Gurdev Singh Kular, Olympian (1956)
* Gurjit Singh Kullar, (1958 Asian Games)
* Balbir Singh Kular Jr, (1958 Asian Games)
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Darshan Singh Kular, Olympian (1964)
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Balbir Singh Kullar, Olympian (1964, 1968)
*
Jagjit Singh Kular, Olympian (1964, 1968)
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Balbir Singh Kular
Colonel Balbir Singh Kular, VSM (born 5 April 1945) is an Indian field hockey player (half-back). He is also known as Balbir Singh Kullar/Khullar, or simply as Balbir Singh.
Balbir Singh was born in the Sansarpur village of the Jalandhar di ...
, Olympian (1968)
*
Tarsem Singh Kular, Olympian (1968)
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Ajit Pal Singh
Ajit Pal Singh Kular (also spelled Ajitpal Singh, born 1 April 1947) was an Indian professional field hockey player from Sansarpur, Punjab. He was the captain of the Indian hockey team. He was conferred the Arjuna Award in 1970, and awarded i ...
Kular, Olympian (1968, 1972, 1976)
* Ravipal Singh, (2010 Asian Games)
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Jasjit Singh Kular, (2014 World Cup)
Kenya
*
Hardev Singh Kular, Olympian (1956, 1960)
* Hardial Singh Kular, Olympian (1968)
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Jagjeet Singh Kular, Olympian (1968, 1972)
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Harvinder Singh Kular, Olympian (1984)
Canada
* Pritpal Singh Kullar,
(1978)
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Bindi Kullar, Olympian (2000, 2008)
References
External links
Sansarpur, a golden village
Cities and towns in Jalandhar district
Census towns in Jalandhar district
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