Shekhewal
# Shekhewal

Shekhewal is a village in Shahkot in Jalandhar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) from Shahkot, 20.5 kilometres (12.7 mi) from Nakodar, 44 kilometres (27 mi) from district headquarter Jalandhar and 175 kilometres (109 mi) from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by a sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per Panchayati raj (India).

## Demography

As of 2011, Qadian has a total number of 61 houses and population of 303 of which include 162 are males while 141 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. Literacy rate of the village is 78.65%, higher than state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 22 which is 7.26% of total population of the village, and child sex ratio is approximately 692 lower than state average of 846.

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 41.25% of total population in the village. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.

As per census 2011, 111 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of the village which includes 88 males and 23 females. According to census survey report 2011, 87.39% workers describe their work as main work and 12.61% workers are involved in marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.

## Transport

Shahkot Malisian station is the nearest train station. The village is 81.7 kilometres (50.8 mi) away from domestic airport in Ludhiana and the nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh also Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport is the second nearest airport which is 114 kilometres (71 mi) away in Amritsar.

