Nurpur, SBS Nagar
Nurpur is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located away from branch post office Sarhal Qazian, from Nawanshahr, from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village. Demography As of 2011, Nurpur has a total number of 231 houses and population of 998 of which 512 include are males while 486 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Nurpur is 75.99% higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 86 which is 8.62% of total population of Nurpur, and child sex ratio is approximately 911 as compared to Punjab state average of 846. Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 50.60% of total population in Nurpur. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far. As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 365 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Nurpur which includes 325 males and 40 females. According to census survey report 2011, 81.37%