Summary:
AdvertisingIn Hoshiarpur — which has the highest literacy rate (as per 2011 census) with 85%, higher than the state’s 75.8% literacy rate — ex-servicemen and serving defence personnel and their families together form a population of 3 lakh. Hoshiarpur has nine assembly segments — Hoshiarpur, Shah Chaurasi, Chabbewal, Tanda Urmur, Mukerian, Dasuya, Phagwara, Bholath and Shri Hargobindpur. AdvertisingIn Hoshiarpur, there are a total 15.97 lakh voters including 7.65 lakh females and 8.32 lakh males. In Hoshiarpur district alone, there are 45,000 registered ex-servicemen and 8,000 widows of ex-servicemen as per information sourced from the District Sainik Welfare Board. We depend on the rains to cultivate our fields,” said ex-servicemen Ranjit Singh of Hazipur..