Balowal
Balowal is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is situated on Phagwara-Mukandpur road and located away from postal head office Mukandpur, from Banga, 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, Balowal has a total number of 208 houses and population of 1036 of which 523 include are males while 513 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Balowal is 80.42%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 91 which is 8.78% of total population of Balowal, and child sex ratio is approximately 655 as compared to Punjab state average of 846. Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 23.94% of total population in Balowal. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far. As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 371 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Balowal which includes 285 males and 86 females. According to census