Sheikhe Mazara
Sheikhe Mazara is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located away from sub post office Rahon, from Nawanshahr, 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, Sheikhe Mazara has a total number of 81 houses and population of 393 of which 204 include are males while 189 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Sheikhe Mazara is 93.66% higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 46 which is 11.70% of total population of Sheikhe Mazara, and child sex ratio is approximately 1091 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 88.30% of total population in Sheikhe Mazara. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.
As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 96 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Sheikhe Mazara which includes 92 males and 4 females. According to census survey report 2011, 97.92% workers describe their work as main work and 2.08% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.
Education
The village has no school and children either travel or walk to other villages for schooling often covering between. KC Engineering College and Doaba Khalsa Trust Group Of Institutions are the nearest colleges. Industrial Training Institute for women is. The village is away from Chandigarh University, from Indian Institute of Technology and away from Lovely Professional University.List of schools nearby
- Govt Upper Primary with Secondary School, Kot Ranjha
- Govt Upper Primary with Secondary/Higher Secondary School, Jadla
- Govt Primary School, Chhokran
- Govt Primary School, Ranewal