Sanawa

Sanawa is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 3.7 km away from sub post office Langroya, 9.4 km from Nawanshahr, 17 km from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and 83.7 km from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.

Demography
As of 2011, Sanawa has a total number of 312 houses and population of 1463 of which 719 include are males while 744 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Sanawa is 82.76% higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 158 which is 10.80% of total population of Sanawa, and child sex ratio is approximately 681 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 43.40% of total population in Sanawa. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.

As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 397 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Sanawa which includes 354 males and 43 females. According to census survey report 2011, 90.18% workers describe their work as main work and 9.82% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.

Education
The village has no school and children either travel or walk to other villages for schooling often covering between 8 - 10 km. KC Engineering College and Doaba Khalsa Trust Group Of Institutions are the nearest colleges. Industrial Training Institute for women (ITI Nawanshahr) is 7 km. The village is 64 km away from Chandigarh University, 41 km from Indian Institute of Technology and 52 km away from Lovely Professional University.

List of schools nearby
 * Govt Upper Primary with Secondary School, Kot Ranjha
 * Govt Upper Primary with Secondary/Higher Secondary School, Jadla
 * Govt Primary School, Chhokran
 * Govt Primary School, Ranewal

Transport
Nawanshahr train station is the nearest train station however, Garhshankar Junction railway station is 20 km away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located 59 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 161 km away in Amritsar.