Mandhala

Mandhala is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 18 km away from Balachaur, 19.6 km from Nawanshahr, 22.3 km from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and 86 km from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.

Demography
As of 2011, Mandhala has a total number of 21 houses and population of 99 of which 49 include are males while 50 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Mandhala is 75.61%, lower than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 17 which is 17.17% of total population of Mandhala, and child sex ratio is approximately 1125 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 50.17% of total population in Mandhala. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.

As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 193 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Mandhala which includes 172 males and 21 females. According to census survey report 2011, 41.46% workers describe their work as main work and 58.54% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.

Education
KC Engineering College and Doaba Khalsa Trust Group Of Institutions are the nearest colleges. Industrial Training Institute for women (ITI Nawanshahr) is 17 km. The village is 77 km away from Chandigarh University, 46 km from Indian Institute of Technology and 64 km away from Lovely Professional University.

List of schools nearby:
 * Dashmesh Model School, Kahma
 * Govt Primary School, Kahlon
 * Govt High School, Garcha

Transport
Nawanshahr train station is the nearest train station however, Garhshankar Junction railway station is 28.7 km away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located 48.4 km away 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 172 km away in Amritsar.