Dhandal

Village in Punjab, India

31°18′57″N 75°25′12″E / 31.315782°N 75.419905°E / 31.315782; 75.419905Country

IndiaStatePunjabDistrictKapurthalaGovernment

• TypePanchayati raj (India) • BodyGram panchayatPopulation

(2011)

• Total524 Sex ratio 261/263♂/♀Languages

• OfficialPunjabi • Other spokenHindiTime zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)PIN

144601

Telephone code01822ISO 3166 codeIN-PBVehicle registrationPB-09Websitekapurthala.gov.in

Dhandal is a village in Kapurthala district of Punjab State, India. It is located 10.8 kilometres (6.7 mi) from Kapurthala, which is both district and sub-district headquarters of Dhandal. The village is administrated by a Sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per the constitution of India and Panchayati raj (India). ^[1]

Demography

According to the report published by Census India in 2011, Dhandal has a total number of 122 houses and population of 524 of which include 261 males and 263 females. Literacy rate of Dhandal is 60.14%, lower than state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 95 which is 18.13% of total population of Dhandal, and child sex ratio is approximately 1065, higher than state average of 846.^[2]

Caste

The village has schedule caste (SC) constitutes 52.48% of total population of the village and it doesn't have any Schedule Tribe (ST) population,^[3]

Population data

Particulars	Total	Male	Female
Total No. of Houses	122	-	-
Population	524	261	263
Child (0-6)	95	46	49
Schedule Caste	275	137	138
Schedule Tribe	0	0	0
Literacy	60.14 %	65.12 %	55.14 %
Total Workers	194	143	51
Main Worker	194	0	0
Marginal Worker	0	0	0