Raipur Araiyan

Raipur Araiyan
Village
Raipur Araiyan Location in Punjab, India Raipur Araiyan Raipur Araiyan (India)
Coordinates: 31.0440639°N 75.887957°E / 31.0440639; 75.887957
Country	India
State	Punjab
District	Jalandhar
Tehsil	Phillaur
Government
• Type	Panchayat raj
• Body	Gram panchayat
Elevation	246 m (807 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	1,506
	Sex ratio 753/753 ♂/♀
Languages
• Official	Punjabi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	144419
Telephone code	01826
ISO 3166 code	IN-PB
Vehicle registration	PB 37
Post office	Dayalpur
Website	jalandhar.nic.in

Raipur Araiyan or Raipur Araian is a medium size village in Phillaur tehsil of Jalandhar District of Punjab State, India. It is situated on Phillaur Nawanshahr Road and located 5.6 km from Nagar, 12.6 km from Phillaur, 55.8 km from Jalandhar and 110 km from state capital Chandigarh. Raipur Araiyan has postal head office in Dayalpur which is 2.8 km away from the village. The village is administrated by a sarpanch who is an elected representative of village as per Panchayati raj (India).

Caste

The village has schedule caste (SC) constitutes 70.05% of total population of the village and it doesn't have any Schedule Tribe (ST) population.

Education

The village has a Punjabi Medium, Co-educational Upper Primary school (GMS Raipur Araiyan School). The school provide mid-day meal as per Indian Midday Meal Scheme and the meal prepared in school premises. The school was founded in 1994. It also has a privet Punjabi Medium, Co-educational Primary with Upper Primary school.

Transport

Rail

Phillaur Junction is the nearest train station which is situated 12 km away, however, Goraya Railway Station is 18.9 km away from the village.

Air

The nearest domestic airport is located 44 km away in Ludhiana and the nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh also a second nearest international airport is 145 km away in Amritsar.