Chuharpur, SBS Nagar
Chuharpur or Hayala is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located away from postal head office Nawanshahar, from Garhshankar, from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.
Demography
As of 2011, Chuharpur has a total number of 310 houses and population of 1545 of which 761 include are males while 784 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Chuharpur is 80.48%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 182 which is 11.78% of total population of Chuharpur, and child sex ratio is approximately 936 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 48.28% of total population in Chuharpur. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.
As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 392 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Chuharpur which includes 373 males and 19 females. According to census survey report 2011, 79.34% workers describe their work as main work and 20.66% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.