About District

Hoshiarpur district is located in the north-east part of the State. It falls in the Jalandhar Revenue Division and is situated in the Bist Doab, Doaba region of the State. The district is sub mountainous and stretches of river Beas in the north-west.

It lies between north latitude 30 degree-9 and 32 degree-05 and east longitude 75degree -32 and 76degree -12’.

It shares common boundaries with Kangra and Una districts of Himachal Pardesh in the north east, Jalandhar and Kapurthala districts (interspersed) in south-west and Gurdaspur district in the north-west.

At present, it has an area of 3386 Sq. Kms. and a population,as per 2011 Census is 15,86,625 persons.

Area & Population (2011 Census )

Parameter	Value
Total area ( Sq. Km.)	3386
Total population	15,86,625
Male	8,09,057
Female	7,77,568
Total SC Population	5,57,504
Male (SC)	2,84,322
Female (SC)	2,73,182
Female per 1000 male	961
Literacy Rate (Total)	84.6%
Male	88.8%
Female	80.3%
Density of population (per sq. km.)	469
Total No. of villages.	1416 + 3*=1419
No. of Inhabited villages	1385 + 3*=1388
No. of Un-inhabited villages	31
No. of Towns	10
No. of Villages counted as Census Towns for Census purposes	3*
Percentage increase in population (2001-2011)	7.1

*Villages namely Hajipur and Rakri of tehsil Mukerian (Total population 11813) & village Chohal of tehsil Hoshiarpur (population 7304) were counted as Census Towns for census purpose. The total population 19,117 of these three villages has been included in Urban Population by the Census Department.

Tehsil	Rural			Urban			Total population	%age Rural	%age Urban
Tehsil	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Total population	%age Rural	%age Urban
Hoshiarpur	189724	181311	371035	99267	90044	189311	560346	66.2	33.8
Dasuya	153601	150700	304301	28878	27326	56204	360505	84.4	15.6
Garhshankar	153499	148897	302396	14730	13585	28315	330711	91.4	8.6
Mukerian	137646	136278	273924	31712	29427	61139	335063	81.8	18.2
Total	634470	617186	1251656	174587	160382	334969	1586625	78.9	21.1

Source: Director, Census Operation, Punjab

Climate

The district has mild climate compared to other districts of the State. This is due to the abundance of hilly terrain on the one hand and sizeable forest covers thereon, on the other. Moreover, chain of check dams constructed recently on the choes under “Kandi Watershed Development Project” have appreciably enhanced water surface area in the district. This has made the summer heights quite pleasant.

The pattern of seasons in the district is similar to other districts of the state, except slight variations at the terminals and year may be divided into three main seasons. The summer season sets in April and lasts up to end of June, to be taken over by the rainy season when it becomes hot and sultry. The rainy season sets in July beginning and lasts up to September end. The winter season starts after the rains are over from October and lasts up to March end. May and June are the hottest months when mercury may cross 45 degree C on some days. It is pleasantly hot. The months of December, January and February are the months when winter is quite severe and mercury may however around 5 degree C and on some days it may touch O’C.

Rainfall

The total average rain falls in district is 1125 mm .Broadly speaking 75 percent of the rainfall is experienced in the period July to September, Whereas 15 Percent rainfall is experienced in the winter months of January and February are under the influence of western disturbances in the Persion Gulf. Hail storms may occur in the closing period of winter when there is quite a sizeable damage to fruit crops, especially the mango fruit for which this district is quite renowned in the State.

Health facilities

Sr. No	Name of the Institution	Rural	Urban	Total	Remarks
1.	District Hospital Hoshiarpur	0	1	1
2.	Sub Divisional Hospitals	0	3	3
3.	PHCs/MPHCs	32	2	34
4.	CHCs	10	2	12
5.	Sub Centres	236	8	244	3NHM
6.	ESI Hospital Hoshiarpur	0	1	1
7.	ESi Dispensaries	3	1	4
8.	Homeopathic Dispensaries	10	7	17
		291	25	316