Suchetgarh is a village in Sultanpur Lodhi

tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...

in Kapurthala district of

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. It is located from the city of Sultanpur Lodhi, away from district headquarter

Kapurthala Kapurthala () is a city in Punjab state of India. It is the administrative headquarters of Kapurthala District. It was the capital of the Kapurthala State, a princely state in British India. The aesthetic mix of the city with its prominent b ...

. The village is administrated by a

Sarpanch A sarpanch, gram pradhan, mukhiya, or president is a decision-maker, elected by the village-level constitutional body of local self-government called the gram sabha (village government) in India. The sarpanch, together with other elected panchay ...

who is an

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of village as per the

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and

Panchayati raj (India) Panchayati raj (council of five officials) is the system of local self-government of villages in rural India as opposed to urban and suburban municipalities. It consists of the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) through which the self-go ...

. It was the place where the two militar delegations delineated the

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until the point

NJ9842 NJ9842, also called NJ 980420 (in full: NJ 38 98000, 13 42000, yard based Indian Grid Coordinates), is the northernmost demarcated point of the India-Pakistan cease fire line in Kashmir known as the Line of Control (LoC). The India–Pakistan ...

References

List of cities near the village

* Bhulath *

Phagwara Phagwara (; ISO 15919, ISO: ''Phagawāṛā'') is a city and a municipal corporation in the Kapurthala district of Punjab, India, Punjab. It is located from the district headquarters of Kapurthala, from the national capital New Delhi, from St ...

* Sultanpur Lodhi

Air travel connectivity

The closest International airport to the village is

Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport is an international airport serving Amritsar, Punjab, India. It is located at Raja Sansi, northwest from the city centre. It is named after Guru Ram Das, the fourth Sikh Guru and the founder of Amrit ...

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Villages in Kapurthala

Villages in Kapurthala district {{Kapurthala-geo-stub