Sheikhe Mazara

Sheikhe Mazara is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located 3 km away from sub post office Rahon, 12.8 km from Nawanshahr, 13.7 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, Sheikhe Mazara has a total number of 81 houses and population of 393 of which 204 include are males while 189 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Sheikhe Mazara is 93.66% higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 46 which is 11.70% of total population of Sheikhe Mazara, and child sex ratio is approximately 1091 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.

Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 88.30% of total population in Sheikhe Mazara. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.

As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 96 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Sheikhe Mazara which includes 92 males and 4 females. According to census survey report 2011, 97.92% workers describe their work as main work and 2.08% 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 13.8 km. The village is 62 km away from Chandigarh University, 56.2 km from Indian Institute of Technology and 56.3 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 24 km away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located 43.6 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 165 km away in Amritsar.