Akhnoor
Akhnoor is a town in Jammu district of Jammu & Kashmir and serves as Nagar Parishad. It is also a Block, Tehsil and Block Development Council of Jammu district.
As on April 2024, the current population of Akhnoor is 23.2 thousands out of which 15.6 thousands are males and rest 7.6 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 489 females per 1000 males. There are around 1.9 thousands teenagers in Akhnoor. It has literacy rate of 83% which means around 19.4 thousands persons can read and write. Total 1.9 thousands people belonging to scheduled caste and 203 scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 3.8 thousands households in Akhnoor, which means every family has 6 members on average. The town has working population of 12.6 thousands.
Schools
Akhnoor has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Army School Akhnoor
- St. Francis Higher Secondary School Akhnoor
- Kids Planet Pubilc School
- Kvno1 Akhnoor
- Mhs Dav Centenary Pub. School
Akhnoor Block Development Council
Akhnoor Block Development Council consists of total 20 Halqa Panchayat.
- Ambaran
- Bandral Khurd
- Bharda Kalan
- Dasgal
- Garkhal
- Gura Brahamana East
- Gura Brahmana west
- Kot Garhi
- Bomal
- Pangari
- Raja Chak
- Sungal lower A
- Sungal Lower-B (Palwan)
- Sungal upper
- Targwal
- Kotli Tanda
- Gandarwan
- Dhok Jagir
- Kanik jagir
- Sungal Lower C
Other villages in Akhnoor Tehsil
Akhnoor Tehsil has total 1 villages which are currently not mapped to any Halqa Panchayat.