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Where is Mangwal?

Mangwal is a large village in Sangrur tehsil of ਸੰਗਰੂਰ district, Punjab, in the Malwa region. What defines it is how close it sits to the district capital: the 2011 directory recorded Sangrur town, about 2 kilometres away, as its nearest town, and the tehsil and district headquarters are about 3 kilometres by road. Mangwal falls in the Sangrur community development block. The census recorded its gram panchayat as Mangwal; current local government listings divide the village land between the Mangwal and Ganga Singh Wala panchayats. In the census record it carries village code 039764, covers 1,050 hectares and shares PIN code 148001 with Sangrur town itself. Villages around it include ਨਾਨਕਿਆਣਾ ਸਾਹਿਬ, Kammo Majra Khurd, Nanakpura and Ramnagar Sibian.

The village that nearly doubled

Between the two censuses Mangwal changed faster than almost any village of its size in the district. In 2001 it counted 5,263 people; in 2011 it counted 9,066, a rise of about 72 per cent in ten years, or 5.6 per cent a year. The reason stands 2 kilometres away: as Sangrur town grew, its housing, workshops and services spilled outward, and Mangwal, the first village on its edge, absorbed the growth. The shape of the population shows it. Children up to six were only 853, about 9 per cent of the village, the smallest share in this batch of villages, the mark of a settlement of working households rather than a farming village growing by births alone.

The 2011 census counted 4,814 men and 4,252 women in 1,905 households, about 4.8 people to a household. On just 1,050 hectares the density reaches about 863 people per square kilometre, dense for a village. The sex ratio was 883 women for every 1,000 men. Scheduled Castes made up 2,736 people, about 30 per cent of the population, and no Scheduled Tribe population was recorded. Literacy stood at 74.93 per cent among residents aged seven and above, men at 78.17 per cent and women at 71.28 per cent, well above the Sangrur district average of 60.5 per cent.

People and work

Mangwal works in town. The census recorded 3,176 workers, about 35 per cent of the village. Of the 2,816 main workers, the largest group by far, 1,603 people, were other workers in trade, transport and services, the jobs of Sangrur town; agricultural labourers numbered 766 and cultivators on their own land just 382. A further 360 people were marginal workers. Counting everyone who farmed, the village held 402 cultivators and 788 agricultural labourers, so even in its fields the labourers outnumber the landholders two to one. Farming is now the village's second economy.

Land and farming

Of Mangwal's 1,050 hectares, 832 hectares were net sown area in the 2011 record, and every sown hectare was irrigated, 710 hectares by wells and tube-wells and 122 by canals. A full 216 hectares, about a fifth of the village, was already under non-agricultural uses such as housing, roads and workplaces, one of the clearest signs in the census of the town spreading into the village. Only 2 hectares were recorded as barren. Farm power supply was recorded at 6 hours a day.

Schools

The 2011 directory recorded two government primary schools and one government school each at middle, secondary and senior secondary level, so children can study in Mangwal up to Class 12, and directory listings add private primary, middle and secondary schools. Beyond school, the town next door does the heavy lifting: the nearest government arts and science degree college and private medical college are in Sangrur, the government industrial training institute is in Sunam, and engineering study is at Bhai Gurdas, outside Sangrur.

Health and daily services

Health cover inside the village is the thinnest in this batch. The freshly checked 2011 Village Directory record lists a single dispensary, and nothing else: no primary health centre, no sub-centre, no hospital and not even a veterinary hospital. In practice the village leans on Sangrur, 2 kilometres away, for doctors and hospitals. Drinking water came from untreated tap water supplies. Mangwal has both a post office and a sub post office, a PDS ration shop, an anganwadi centre and an ASHA health worker, and mobile phone coverage. It had no bank branch and no ATM in the 2011 record; the nearest bank was within five kilometres, in Sangrur. Domestic power supply was recorded at 12 hours a day.

Faith in Mangwal

No shrine of Mangwal appears in the national gurdwara and temple directories opened for this page, and religious life is local, centred on the village's own gurdwaras and temples. For larger religious gatherings the village looks to Sangrur, whose historic gurdwaras and temples stand 2 kilometres away.

Getting there

Mangwal is reached by pucca, all-weather roads from Sangrur. Unusually for a village of 9,000 people, the 2011 directory recorded no bus service inside the village itself: both public and private buses were within five kilometres, which in practice means the bus stands of Sangrur town. The nearest railway station was also within five kilometres, at Sangrur, on the line through the district.

What is the population of Mangwal?

The population of Mangwal was 9,066 at the 2011 census, living in 1,905 households in Sangrur tehsil of Sangrur district. It had risen from 5,263 in 2001, one of the fastest growth rates of any large village in the district.

How far is Mangwal from Sangrur?

About 2 kilometres. Sangrur is Mangwal's nearest town and its tehsil and district headquarters, and the village shares the town's PIN code, 148001.