Bhamian Khurdਭਮਿਆਂ ਖੁਰਦ

Where is Bhamian Khurd?

Bhamian Khurd is a village in Ludhiana East tehsil of Ludhiana district, Punjab, described in its reference works as a village turned urban area on the eastern side of Ludhiana city. The census recorded Ludhiana, about 2 kilometres away, as its nearest town, while listings place the city headquarters about 16 kilometres by road. In the census record Bhamian Khurd carries village code 033491, covers only 216 hectares and has PIN code 141010, though LGD listings use 141007 for the same village, a variance recorded here as it stands. It falls in the Ludhiana-II community development block. The census recorded its gram panchayat as Bhamian Khurd, while a 2009-based account names Shankar Colony as its gram panchayat. For political representation it sits in the Sahnewal assembly constituency and the Fatehgarh Sahib Lok Sabha constituency. Its neighbours include Bhamian Kalan, the separate census town next door, Tajpur, Mundian Khurd, Dhoula and Bholapur, and its newer parts carry colony names such as New Sunder Nagar, GTB Nagar and Balaji Enclave.

The village that grew sevenfold

Bhamian Khurd's census story is the most dramatic in this programme. It counted just 1,101 people in 2001 and 8,222 in 2011: the village grew more than sevenfold in a single decade as Ludhiana's eastern housing spread across its 216 hectares. The 2011 census counted 4,396 men and 3,826 women living in 1,706 households, about 4.8 people to a household, the smallest households in this batch. Packed onto its small area, the density works out to about 3,806 people per square kilometre, town density in all but name, and its neighbour Bhamian Kalan was counted separately as a census town of 13,174 people the same year. The sex ratio was 870 women for every 1,000 men. Children up to the age of six numbered 1,025, about 12 per cent of the village. Scheduled Castes made up 1,430 people, about 17 per cent of the population, and no Scheduled Tribe population was recorded.

Literacy in 2011 stood at 80.66 per cent among residents aged seven and above, with men at 85.65 per cent and women at 74.86 per cent, by far the highest literacy in this batch. The census recorded 2,764 workers, about 34 per cent of the village. Of the 2,487 main workers, an overwhelming 2,256 were other workers in trade, transport, industry and services, ahead of just 121 cultivators and 86 people in household industries. A further 277 people were marginal workers. Counting everyone, the village held only 137 cultivators against 30 agricultural labourers: Bhamian Khurd keeps a village's name and panchayat, but its working life is Ludhiana's.

Land and farming

Very little of Bhamian Khurd is still farmed, and the figures show why. Of the village's 216 hectares, only 90 hectares were net sown area in the 2011 record, every sown hectare irrigated from wells and tube-wells, while about 126 hectares, more than half the village, were already under non-agricultural uses such as housing, roads and ponds in 2011. Farm power supply was recorded at 8 hours a day. The remaining fields sit between colonies, and the sown share has only shrunk since the census as the city's edge has moved east.

Religious life

No shrine of Bhamian Khurd itself is recorded by name in the directories opened for this page, and the village has no nationally known place of worship. Its religious life runs through the gurdwaras and temples of its own streets and of the Ludhiana colonies that now surround it, none of which could be verified individually from opened sources, so none is named here. The honest record is that Bhamian Khurd's story is not a shrine's story: it is the story of a small farming village absorbed, within one decade, into the daily life of Punjab's largest city.

Schools

Education in the village runs through one government primary school, one government middle school, one government secondary school and one government senior secondary school, recorded in 2011, so children can study in Bhamian Khurd up to Class 12. Beyond the government set, property and school listings for the locality place city schools within about a kilometre to three kilometres, among them St. Francis School, BCM Senior Secondary School in Sector 32A and DCM Presidency School. For higher study, the degree, engineering, polytechnic and medical colleges of Ludhiana serve the village, and the nearest government pre-primary school was recorded at Tajpur.

Health and daily services

The 2011 Village Directory recorded no health facility inside Bhamian Khurd at all: no community health centre, primary health centre, sub-centre, allopathic hospital, dispensary or veterinary hospital, so the plain statement that no health facility was recorded in the village in 2011 is genuinely correct for this record. Care is close in practice, because the village sits inside Ludhiana's urban spread: locality listings place hospitals about two to five kilometres away, among them Fortis Hospital Ludhiana and Mohandai Oswal Hospital. Treated tap water was available in the village, along with total sanitation campaign coverage, though no community toilet complex was recorded. There was no post office or sub post office in the village in 2011, both being within 5 kilometres. The village did have an internet common service centre, a PDS ration shop, mobile phone coverage, an anganwadi centre and an ASHA worker. Banking was available in the village itself, with a commercial bank branch and an ATM, while a cooperative bank was within 5 kilometres: 19 of the census directory's 32 facility fields were positive. Domestic electricity supply was recorded at 12 hours a day.

Getting there

Bhamian Khurd is reached by pucca, all-weather roads on Ludhiana's eastern edge. A private bus service ran in the village itself in the 2011 record, while the public bus service was available within 5 kilometres. The directory recorded the nearest railway station as more than 10 kilometres away; present day locality listings place Dhandari Kalan station about 5 kilometres away and Ludhiana Junction about 7 kilometres, the difference between the census record and today's city geography, stated here as both stand. Ludhiana, the district headquarters, is the village's practical hub for everything.

What is the population of Bhamian Khurd?

The population of Bhamian Khurd was 8,222 at the 2011 census, living in 1,706 households in Ludhiana East tehsil of Ludhiana district. It had grown from just 1,101 in 2001.

Which tehsil is Bhamian Khurd in?

Bhamian Khurd is in Ludhiana East tehsil of Ludhiana district, Punjab, in the Ludhiana-II block. Its census village code is 033491 and its census PIN code is 141010.

Is Bhamian Khurd a village or a town?

Bhamian Khurd is still a census village with its own gram panchayat, not a town, but with 8,222 people on 216 hectares at the edge of Ludhiana it works as an urban area. Its neighbour Bhamian Kalan is a separate census town.