Rurka Khurd
Education
The village has a co-ed upper primary school (Gms Rurka Khurd School) which was founded in July 1972. The schools provide a mid-day meal as per the Indian Midday Meal Scheme. The village also has some privet co-ed primary with upper primary and secondary schools. gurdwara school.
Demography
As of 2017, Rurka Khurd has approximately 762 houses and population of 3,356 of which 1,840 include are males while 1,654 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2017. Literacy rate of Rurka Khurd is 81.63%, higher than state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 336 which is 10.52% of total population of Rurka Khurd, and child sex ratio is approximately 998, higher than state average of 856.
Caste
Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 41.36% of total population in Rurka Khurd. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far. there are so many cast living in the village.
Work profile
As per Census 2017, 1071 people are engaged in work activities out of the total population of Rurka Khurd which includes 929 males and 132 females. According to census survey report 2011, 89.32% of workers describe their work as main work and 12.68% workers are involved in marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of the 1041 in the working population, 79.64% workers are occupied in main work, 7.9% are cultivators while 1.7% are Agricultural labourer. numbers of houses being built are growing yearly. farming jobs are growing every day.
Transport
Rail
Goraya is the nearest train station however, Phagwara Jn Railway Station is 13.5 km away from the village.
Air
The nearest domestic airport is located 47.6 km away in Ludhiana and the nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh also Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport is the second nearest airport which is 129 km away in Amritsar.
References
- ^ "Rurka Khurd Population per Census India". censusindia.gov.in.
- ^ "Detail Of Gms Rurka Khurd School". ICBSE. Retrieved 4 July 2016.