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Where is Balianwala?

Balianwala is a large village in Maur tehsil of ਬਠਿੰਡਾ district, Punjab, in the Malwa region. The name is spelled Balianwali in the gram panchayat, school and LGD records, and Balianwala in the census record, where it carries village code 035694. The census counted it in Rampura Phul tehsil and the Rampura community development block, while current listings place it in ਮੌੜ tehsil, the same census-to-current tehsil pattern seen across this part of Bathinda. The census recorded ਰਾਮਪੁਰਾ ਫੂਲ, about 8 kilometres away, as its nearest town; by road the village stands about 16 kilometres from Rampura Phul and about 27 kilometres from Bathinda city. It covers 2,392 hectares and has PIN code 151107 in the census record, against 151103 in current LGD listings, a variance recorded here as it stands. Its gram panchayat is Balianwali, and for political representation it sits in the Bathinda Urban assembly constituency and the Bathinda Lok Sabha constituency. Villages recorded around it include Nandgarh Kotra to the south west, ਦੌਲਟਪੁਰਾ to the north west, ਗਿੱਲ ਖੁਰਦ to the west, ਭੁਂਡਰ and ਮਾਨਸਾ ਖੁਰਦ.

People and work

The 2011 census counted 8,194 people in Balianwala: 4,395 men and 3,799 women living in 1,602 households, about 5.1 people to a household. Spread over 2,392 hectares, the density works out to about 343 people per square kilometre. The village had grown from 7,169 people in 2001, a rise of about 14 per cent over the decade. The sex ratio was 864 women for every 1,000 men. Children up to the age of six numbered 851, about 10 per cent of the village. Scheduled Castes made up 2,110 people, about 26 per cent of the population, and no Scheduled Tribe population was recorded.

Literacy in 2011 stood at 62.17 per cent among residents aged seven and above, with men at 66.96 per cent and women at 56.7 per cent. The census recorded 2,901 workers, about 35 per cent of the village. Of the 2,375 main workers, the largest group, 921 people, were cultivators working their own land, ahead of 769 agricultural labourers and 558 other workers, with household industry workers making up the rest. A further 526 people were marginal workers. Counting everyone, the village held 944 cultivators against 1,015 agricultural labourers, so paid farm work supports slightly more families here than landholding alone.

Land and farming

Farming covers nearly all of Balianwala's land, and it runs mainly on canal water. Of the village's 2,392 hectares, 2,191 hectares were net sown area in the 2011 record, and every sown hectare was irrigated: 1,643 hectares from canals and 548 hectares from wells and tube-wells. About 201 hectares were under non-agricultural uses such as the settlement, roads and ponds. Farm power supply was recorded at 6 hours a day, against 14 hours for domestic use.

ਸਿੱਖ ਧਾਰਮਿਕ ਜੀਵਨ

No shrine of Balianwala 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 its own gurdwaras and temples, none of which could be verified individually by name from opened sources, so none is named here. The honest record is that Balianwala's story is a farming village's story: a primary health centre, schools running back to 1950 and canal-irrigated fields on the Maur to Rampura Phul side of Bathinda district.

Schools

Education in Balianwala 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 the village up to Class 12, and the village gives its name to its own school cluster. School listings date the Government Senior Secondary School for girls at Balianwali to 1952, teaching classes 6 to 12 under the Punjab School Education Board, and the government primary schools for boys and girls to 1950 and 1952. Private schools in the village include Guru Arjun Dev Public School, dated 2004 and teaching classes 1 to 12, and Bal Mandir Public School, dated 2003 and teaching to Class 10. For higher study, the colleges of Rampura Phul, Maur and Bathinda serve the village.

Health and daily services

Health facilities recorded inside the village in 2011 were a primary health centre, a primary health sub-centre and a veterinary hospital, with no community health centre, allopathic hospital or dispensary recorded that year. Current LGD-based listings describe a community health centre in the village as well, a present day change against the 2011 record. Treated tap water was available in the village, though neither total sanitation campaign coverage nor a community toilet complex was recorded. Balianwala has a sub post office of its own, while the post office, the internet common service centre and the PDS ration shop were all recorded 5 to 10 kilometres away. Banking was available in the village itself, with a commercial bank branch, though no ATM was recorded in 2011 and a cooperative bank was 5 to 10 kilometres away. The village also had mobile phone coverage, an anganwadi centre and an ASHA worker: 19 of the census directory's 32 facility fields were positive.

Getting there

Balianwala corrects its earlier description on buses: both public and private bus services ran in the village itself in the 2011 record. The village is reached by a pucca road, while the all-weather road was recorded more than 10 kilometres away, as the written record stands. The nearest railway station was recorded 5 to 10 kilometres away, and listings name Rampura Phul station as the village's station. Maur, the tehsil headquarters, and Bathinda, the district headquarters, are the practical hubs for administration and onward travel.

What is the population of Balianwala?

The population of Balianwala was 8,194 at the 2011 census, living in 1,602 households in Bathinda district. It had risen from 7,169 in 2001.

Which tehsil is Balianwala in?

Balianwala sits in Maur tehsil of Bathinda district, Punjab, in the Rampura block. The 2011 census counted it in Rampura Phul tehsil. Its census village code is 035694 and its census PIN code is 151107.

What is Balianwala known for?

Balianwala is a canal-irrigated farming village of Bathinda district with a primary health centre, government schools to Class 12 whose listings run back to 1950, and 2,191 hectares of fully irrigated farmland recorded in 2011.