Naura is a town in the Nawanshahr district

Nawanshahr District

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 of Punjab

Punjab (India)

Punjab ) is a state in the northwest of the Republic of India, forming part of the larger Punjab region. The state is bordered by the Indian states of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast and Rajasthan to the southwest as well as the Pakistani province of Punjab to the...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. It is located about 2km from Khatkar Kalan

Khatkar Kalan

Khatkar Kalan is a village just outside Banga town in Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Punjab. This is the ancestral town of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, after whom the district is named....

, the home town of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, on the Banga - Gharshanker road. Jawaharlal Nehru, first Prime Minister of India visited Naura attending agricultural trade show along with his daughter Indira Gandhi.

Population

The town's 2001 population was 3,331. Many of the town's residents and families are settled in other parts of India and overseas, but they still maintain their ancestral homes in the town.

Education

Naura is home to a branch of the District Institute of Education and Training where primary school teachers are educated and trained.

The town has access to multiple colleges in the nearby cities of Banga

Banga (Nawanshahr)

Banga is a City and a Municipal council in the Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab, India. It is located on the Punjab Plain. In 1961, its population was 10,212 which grew to 11,885 in 1971. It is currently estimated to have a population of about 23,000 and is classified as a Class 2...

, Nawanshar, Gharshanker and Phagwara

Phagwara

Phagwara is a city and a municipal council in Kapurthala district in North India, in the central part of the Punjab.-Location:Phagwara lies on the Delhi–Amritsar national highway No.01 and is also served by the rail link between Delhi and Amritsar. It is located between the two big cities of...

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