Chabbewal

Chabbewal is a town in the district of Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India, with a population of 5000.Chabbewal is a now major shopping center that attracts neighboring villagers regularly. It is a major Bus Station for villagers in and out of that area. Chabbewal is on the main highway from Pathankot to Chandigarh and sits just in the middle of Hoshiarpur and Mahilpur about 10 km each way. The town has five High Schools, and a very renowned Girls College - Shri Guru Har Rai Sahib College for Women. It now has the Guru Gobind Singh Polytechnic College in village Handowal Kalan which is rich in Technical diploma courses. It is the first institute in Hoshiarpur district to provide vocational diploma in engineering through the NVEQF scheme of AICTE.www.ggspc.comThe main clan in Chabbewal is the Jatt Clan - Jhutty (or Jhutti / Jhooti). The Jhutti surname derives from the act of capturing an untamable animal pre India, in this case a horse. It is said that the person who captured this untamable horse was given the nickname "jhutti" (the act of capturing the untamable in frendly terms lynch" ). The name later developed into the clan's surname it originally means lynch.The neighboring villages house many historical Gurdwaras (Baba Rattan Singh Ji / Nattrala, Harian-Vellan - Jathedar Sant Baba Nihal Singh Ji) and has produced many football players for the state. Many people have migrated to foreign countries from this area: The UK, Canada, The US, Norway, Australia and other parts of Europe.