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Rurki Khas | |
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Village | |
  Rurki Khas Location in Punjab, India  Rurki Khas Rurki Khas (India) | |
| Coordinates: 31°09′41″N 76°09′13″E / 31.1614°N 76.1537°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Punjab |
| District | Hoshiarpur |
| Government | |
| • Type | Panchayat raj |
| • Body | Gram panchayat |
| Elevation | 253.7 m (832.3 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 1,866[1] |
| Sex ratio 950/916 ♂/♀ | |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Punjabi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 144532 |
| ISO 3166 code | IN-PB |
Rurki Khas is a village in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab State, India. It is located 47.10 kilometers (29.26 miles) away from the district headquarter Hoshiarpur, 5.90 kilometers (3.66 miles) from tehsil Garhshankar and 75.85 kilometers (47.13 miles) from the state capital Chandigarh. Most of the families of the village are well settled abroad. The village is administrated by a Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.[2]
Demography
[edit]As of 2011, Rurki Khas has a total number of 395 households and population of 1866 of which 950 are male and 916 are female according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Rurki Khas is 75.03%.[1]
The population of people from Schedule Caste is 465 or 24.92% of the total population in Rurki Khas. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.[1]
Education
[edit]The village has a Punjabi medium, co-educational Government Senior Secondary School. The school consists of grades from 6 to 12 and is located in the Garhshankar block of Hoshiarpur district of Punjab. The school was established in 1965 and is managed by the Department of Education.[3]
The village also has another Government Senior Secondary School called Shahid Master Malkit Singh Govt. Senior Secondary School (0045202)[4]
Landmarks
[edit]Gurdwara Moti Bagh, Gurdwara Darwaja Sahib, Ravidaas Gurdwara are religious sites in the village.
Notable Events
[edit]Rattan Singh Rakkar, Jathedar (Leader) of the Garhshankar Branch of the Babbar Akali Movement, took refuge in the village of Rurki Khas in 1932. Meehan Singh of Garhi, a police informant, spotted him and Rattan Singh Rakkar was killed in an encounter with the police on July 15, 1932.[5] [6]
For giving protection to Rattan Singh Rakkar, the British Government imposed the following punishments:
- A Police post was established in the village, the expenditures of which were to be borne by the villagers.
- They were fined Rs. 6000/- to make the payment to the Police establishment posted there from 1932 to 1934.
- Pensions of all the pensioners of this village were not paid for 5 years, which amounted to Rs. 7000/-
- The villagers were deprived of the right of getting Government services.
- Those who had actively supported this political struggle could not move out of the village, without the prior sanction of the Government.
- The whole village was entered in the black list of the British Government. [7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c "RURKI KHAS (155)". Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Retrieved Jan 3, 2025.
- ^ "List of Reservation sarpanches for Gram panchayat District Hoshiarpur" (PDF). Government of Punjab Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Hoshiarpur Notification. Retrieved Jan 3, 2025.
- ^ "GSSS RURKI KHASS". Schools.org.in. Retrieved Jan 3, 2025.
- ^ "School Details". Punjab School Education Board. Retrieved Jan 3, 2025.
- ^ "Rattan Singh Rakkar". Government of India, Ministry of Culture. Retrieved Jan 3, 2025.
- ^ Chatterji, Basudev; Alam, Ishrat (eds.). Dictionary of Martyrs India's Freedom Struggle (1857-1947) (PDF). Vol. 1. Indian Council of Historical Research. p. 272.
- ^ Singh Vaid, Gurcharan. Shaheed Rattan Singh Ji Babar Akali da Singhupan. Tatav Gyan Khoi Kender. p. 80-104.
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