Sotran
Sotran is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located away Mukandpur, from Banga, from district headquarters Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and from the state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.
Demography
As of 2011, Sotran has 184 houses and a population of 858 of which 440 are males and 418 females, according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Sotran is 77.74%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 72 which is 8.39% of the total population of Sotran, and child sex ratio is approximately 714 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 65.03% of the total population in Sotran. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.
As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 280 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Sotran which includes 240 males and 40 females. According to the census survey report 2011, 95.71% of workers describe their work as main work and 4.29% of workers are involved in marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.