Administrative Units

	Data relating to District	Data relating to State (Punjab)
Date when district was formed	05/11/1995
Tehsils	1. Nawanshahr
	2. Balachaur
Sub Tehsil	Banga
Blocks	1. Nawanshahr
	2. Banga
	3. Aur
	4. Balachaur
	5. Saroya
Towns	1. Nawanshahr
	2. Banga
	3. Balachaur
	4. Rahon
No. of Assemblies	3
No. of Revenue Circle	3
No. of Revenue Villages	474
No. of Villages	472
No. of Populated Villages	465
No. of Uninhabited Villages	7
No. of Forest Villages	73
No. of Gram Panchayats	445
No. of Kanungo Circle	18
No. of Patwar Circle	175
District Population as per census 2001	587468
Tehsil Nawanshahr Population	409448
Tehsil Balachaur Population	178020
Total Rural Population	506402
Total Urban Population	81066
Percentage of rural population to total	86.20%	66.08%
Percentage of urban population to total	13.80%	33.92%
Percentage increase in population in last decade	10.58%	20.10%
Sex Ratio	913	874
Sex Ratio in age group (0-6years)	900	875
District wise Scheduled Castes Population	237664	7028723
Tehsil Nawanshahr Scheduled Castes Population	185135
Tehsil Balachaur Scheduled Castes Population	52529
Percentage of SC Population to total population	40.46%	28.85%
Population of town Nawanshahr	31967
Population of town Banga	18809
Population of town Balachaur	18156
Population of town Rahon	12134
Total Population of main workers and marginal workers	263133	9141760
Total Population of Literates	397843	14853810
Literacy Rate	76.86%	69.95%
Density of population	464	484
Total no. of Households	91606	342466
Total no. of villages	472	12780
Total Area (Sq. Km.)	1267	50362
Annual Average rainfall year 2002	473 mm	314.5 mm
Total area under crops	176000	7826000
Yield of Principal crops - Rice(per hectare Kilogram) - Wheat	3512 3741	3510 4200
Total no. of operational holding	70732	1093073
Total no. of regulated markets	3	144
Total no. of Sub Yards	22	519
During 2002-03 market arrivals of Important crops ( 1000 hectare)- Rice - Wheat	179 169	12715 9903
Total production of principal crops (1000 Metric ton)- Rice - Wheat	151 254	8880 14175
Gross Area under Irrigation(1000 Hectare)	86	4035
No. of Tubewells energized operated in district	18987	857559
Area under forests in Distt. (Sq. Km.)	32	1382
Total no. of Livestock as per census 1997	298500	8996100
Total no. of Poultry as per census 1997	130000	5539200
Total no. of Veterinary institutions	96	2840
Total no. of Fish Seed Farms	1	14
Total no. of Co-operative Societies	601	21212
Centrally Co-operative banks - No. of offices)	47
Centrally Co-operative banks - No. of members	503
Working Capital of banks (1000 Rs.)	4360296
Liabilities of Banks (1000 Rs.)	4744945
Assets of banks (1000 Rs.)	4860296
No. of registered factories	111	14196
No. of employed workers	2871	449166
Workers per lac population	485
No. of Punjab Govt. Employees	7478	378377
No. of unemployed educated applicants	6931	536675
No. of unemployed educated applicants	1264	125066
No. of medical institutions Rural Area Urban Area	79 73 6	2242 1774 468
No. of hospitals	5	219
Ayurvedic and Unani Dispensaries	25	529
Homopathic Dispensaries	2	107
Beds in medical institutions	496	25292
Registered medical and paramedical personnel	590
Population served under per medical institution	7537	11095
Beds per thousand population	0.8	1
Under Family Welfare Programme Voluntary Sterlisation operations I.U.D’S	1866 4873	101738 338876
No. of Primary Schools	438	13340
No. of Middle, High, Secondary Schools	216	6524
Arts, Science, Engineering and B.Ed. colleges	9	255
No. of Teachers Training Institutes	1

District wise Teacher-Pupil ratio Primary Level Middle Level High School Level Secondary Level	49 27 21 19	44 26 23 27
No. of Registered Motor Vehicles Passengers Vehicles Goods Vehicles Tractors Other Vehicles	524294 476588 17660 29795 251	3103147 2556200 100670 442562 3715
Provisional Highways (Kilometers)	2027	49592
Total Roads (Kilometers)	2137	60710
Roads per 100 Sqare Kilometers)	169	121
Roads per lac of population (Kilometers)	357	241
No. of Post offices	184	4214
No. of Telephone Exchanges	43	1534
No. of Public Call Offices	502	41124
No. of Telephone Connections	41575	2043016
No. of Banks	129	3499
C.D. Ratio		39.63%
No. of Zila Parishads	1	17
Total Income of Zila Parishad (Rs. Lac)	647.98
Total Expenditure of Zila Parishad (Rs. Lac)	255.11
Total no. of Municipal Committees	4
Income of Municipal Committees (1000 Rs.) Banga Nawanshahr Rahon Balachaur	19921 27216 4838 7780
Expenditure of Municipal Committees (1000 Rs.) Banga Nawanshahr Rahon - Balachaur	19397 26817 5144 8161
No. of Police Stations and Police Posts as on 31st Oct., 2003	12	456