Chogawan
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Chogawan village, the headquarters of Chogawan block, is situated around 20 km North West of Amritsar
city. Chogawan is a predominantly rural block with 113 villages and shares a large border with the neighbouring country, Pakistan
. It has a population of 148134 persons with around 27% of its population belonging to the Scheduled Castes. It has a low literacy rate of 59% as compared to 77% literacy rate of Amritsar district
. The block has no industry and is infrastructurally backward as compared to other parts of the district. Majority of its population is engaged in farming.
Amritsar
Amritsar is a city in the northern part of India and is the administrative headquarters of Amritsar district in the state of Punjab, India. The 2001 Indian census reported the population of the city to be over 1,500,000, with that of the entire district numbering 3,695,077...
city. Chogawan is a predominantly rural block with 113 villages and shares a large border with the neighbouring country, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. It has a population of 148134 persons with around 27% of its population belonging to the Scheduled Castes. It has a low literacy rate of 59% as compared to 77% literacy rate of Amritsar district
Amritsar District
Amritsar district is one of 22 districts in the state of Punjab in West India. It has a population of 3,074,207 and covers an area of 5075 km²...
. The block has no industry and is infrastructurally backward as compared to other parts of the district. Majority of its population is engaged in farming.