Moonak
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Moonak is a town and a nagar panchayat
in Sangrur district
in the India
n state
of Punjab
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, Moonak had a population of 20,000. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Moonak has an average literacy rate of 52%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 58%, and female literacy is 45%. In Moonak, 8% of the population is under 6 years of age.
ruled Punjab
,his uncle hold the charges, but sometime after that his uncle cheated him under the pressure of the English. Singh attacked Moonak, and saved it from undergoing the English. It is a town with population about 25,000, and is a Tehsil of the Sangrur district.
Sardar Arjun Singh Mann is the first person from the town to travel abroad in the earlier 1930's.
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 Sangrur district
Sangrur district
Sangrur district is in the state of Punjab in North-West Republic of India. Earlier Barnala was part of Sangrur district, but now Barnala is a separate district.-Sangrur consists of following cities:DHURIMALERKOTLA...
in 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...
n state
States and territories of India
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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...
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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...
, Moonak had a population of 20,000. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Moonak has an average literacy rate of 52%, lower than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 58%, and female literacy is 45%. In Moonak, 8% of the population is under 6 years of age.
History
Moonak was originally known as Akalgarh. During the period when the emperor Maharaja Ranjit SinghRanjit Singh
Maharaja Ranjit Singh Ji was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.-Early life:...
ruled Punjab
Punjab region
The Punjab , also spelled Panjab |water]]s"), is a geographical region straddling the border between Pakistan and India which includes Punjab province in Pakistan and the states of the Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and some northern parts of the National Capital Territory of Delhi...
,his uncle hold the charges, but sometime after that his uncle cheated him under the pressure of the English. Singh attacked Moonak, and saved it from undergoing the English. It is a town with population about 25,000, and is a Tehsil of the Sangrur district.
Gulzari of Moonak
Moonak is also known for its famous kabaddi player Gulzari. His friends Vinod Procha andSardar Arjun Singh Mann is the first person from the town to travel abroad in the earlier 1930's.