Bhogpur
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Bhogpur is a town and a nagar panchayat
in Jalandhar district
in the state of Punjab
, India
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and here is a historical place near bhogpur called shri nandachaur dham people must see this place
, Bhogpur had a population of 13,893. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Bhogpur has an average literacy rate of 75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 79% and female literacy of 70%. 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Bhogpur was one of the first town in India to have a co-operative sugar mill established in 1956 and it has also become India First town which has its own multimedia web site www.bhogpuronline.com developed by JmD Institute Bhogpur, The MLA from this area is Sarabjit Singh Makkar of Shromni Akal Dal.
Nagar Panchayat
A nagar palika or nagar panchayat is a form of an urban political unit in India comparable to a municipality.An urban centre with more than 30,000 and less than 100,000 inhabitants is classified as a nagar panchayat....
in Jalandhar district
Jalandhar District
Jalandhar district , Jalandhar Zilā) is one of the 22 districts in the state of Punjab in North-West Republic of India. The capital is Jalandhar City...
in the state 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...
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Geography
Bhogpur is located at 31.55°N 75.63°E. It has an average elevation of 232 metres (761 feet). It is about 25 kilometres from Jalandhar City on National Highway NH1A to Srinagar. The town is also known as Bhogpur Sirwal. An interesting thing about Bhogpur is that India's first sugar mill was established here.and here is a historical place near bhogpur called shri nandachaur dham people must see this place
Demographics
India censusCensus
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
, Bhogpur had a population of 13,893. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Bhogpur has an average literacy rate of 75%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 79% and female literacy of 70%. 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Bhogpur was one of the first town in India to have a co-operative sugar mill established in 1956 and it has also become India First town which has its own multimedia web site www.bhogpuronline.com developed by JmD Institute Bhogpur, The MLA from this area is Sarabjit Singh Makkar of Shromni Akal Dal.