Charan, SBS Nagar

Charan is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located away from Rahon, from Nawanshahr, 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, Charan has a total number of 204 houses and population of 1054 of which 535 include are males while 519 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Charan is 80.97%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 103 which is 9.77% of total population of Charan, and child sex ratio is approximately 1060 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 62.81% of total population in Charan. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 327 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Charan which includes 299 males and 28 females. According to census survey report 2011, 98.17% workers describe their work as main work and 1.83% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.