Nijjar Population - Amritsar, Punjab

Nijjar is a medium size village located in Baba Bakala Tehsil of Amritsar district, Punjab with total 174 families residing. The Nijjar village has population of 855 of which 434 are males while 421 are females as per Population Census 2011.

In Nijjar village population of children with age 0-6 is 80 which makes up 9.36 % of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Nijjar village is 970 which is higher than Punjab state average of 895. Child Sex Ratio for the Nijjar as per census is 818, lower than Punjab average of 846.

Nijjar village has higher literacy rate compared to Punjab. In 2011, literacy rate of Nijjar village was 76.00 % compared to 75.84 % of Punjab. In Nijjar Male literacy stands at 80.26 % while female literacy rate was 71.69 %.

As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Nijjar village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village. Our website, don't have information about schools and hospital in Nijjar village.

Nijjar Data

Particulars	Total	Male	Female
Total No. of Houses	174	-	-
Population	855	434	421
Child (0-6)	80	44	36
Schedule Caste	305	160	145
Schedule Tribe	0	0	0
Literacy	76.00 %	80.26 %	71.69 %
Total Workers	297	214	83
Main Worker	277	-	-
Marginal Worker	20	16	4

Caste Factor

In Nijjar village, most of the villagers are from Schedule Caste (SC). Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 35.67 % of total population in Nijjar village. The village Nijjar currently doesn’t have any Schedule Tribe (ST) population.

Work Profile

In Nijjar village out of total population, 297 were engaged in work activities. 93.27 % of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 6.73 % were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 297 workers engaged in Main Work, 126 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 37 were Agricultural labourer.