Bharta Kalan

Bharta Kalan is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located away from Garcha, from Banga, from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.DemographyAs of 2011, Bharta Kalan has a total number of 355 houses and population of 1747 of which 882 include are males while 865 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Bharta Kalan is 78.68%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 171 which is 9.81% of total population of Bharta Kalan, and child sex ratio is approximately 988 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 19.86% of total population in Bharta Kalan. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 547 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Bharta Kalan which includes 495 males and 52 females. According to census survey report 2011, 72.94% workers describe their work as main work and 27.06% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.