Sandwan

Sandwan is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 2.5 km away from sub post office Pharala, 28 km from Nawanshahr, 26 km from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and 118 km from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.

Demography
As of 2011, Sandwan has a total number of 657 houses and population of 3181 of which 1637 include are males while 1544 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Sandwan is 80.74% higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 330 which is 10.37% of total population of Sandwan, and child sex ratio is approximately 953 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 56.27% of total population in Sandwan. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.

As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 1034 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Sandwan which includes 936 males and 98 females. According to census survey report 2011, 73.60% workers describe their work as main work and 26.40% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.

Education
The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed primary school established in 1935. The school provide mid-day meal per Indian Midday Meal Scheme. As per Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act the school provide free education to children between the ages of 6 and 14.

Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial college Mukandpur are the nearest colleges. Industrial Training Institute for women (ITI Nawanshahr) is 31 km. The village is 99 km away from Chandigarh University, 75 km from Indian Institute of Technology and 25 km away from Lovely Professional University.

Transport
Banga train station is the nearest train station however, Phagwara Junction railway station is 18 km away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located 67 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 134 km away in Amritsar.