Surankote
Surankote is a town in Poonch district of Jammu & Kashmir and serves as Nagar Parishad. It is also a Block, Tehsil and Block Development Council of Poonch district.
As on April 2024, the current population of Surankote is 7.5 thousands out of which 4 thousands are males and rest 3.6 thousands are females. The sex ratio of this town is 904 females per 1000 males. There are around 1 thousands teenagers in Surankote. It has literacy rate of 72% which means around 5.4 thousands persons can read and write. Total 3 people belonging to scheduled caste and 1.7 thousands scheduled tribe people live in the town. There are around 1.5 thousands households in Surankote, which means every family has 5 members on average. The town has working population of 2.2 thousands.
Schools
Surankote has many good schools for education and follwing are popular schools among students.
- Higher Secondary School Girls Surankote
- Higher Secondary School Boys Surankote
- High School New Sher-E-Kashmir National Academy Surankote
- Baba Nazami Public School
- Higher Secondary School Hari
Surankote Block Development Council
Surankote Block Development Council consists of total 28 Halqa Panchayat.
- Dodi
- Dundak
- Gunthal Lower
- Hari Lower
- Lathoung
- Marhote Lower Left
- Marhote Upper
- Pamrote
- Potha Lower
- Sanai Lower
- Sangla Lower
- Sangla Upper
- Surankote Lower
- Hari Upper
- Gunthal Upper
- Marhote Lower Right
- Marhote Middle
- Potha Upper
- Dara Sangla
- Surankote Upper
- Sanai Upper
- Kallar Kattal
- Dandi Dhara
- Hari Lower Left
- Hari Upper A
- Hill Hundian
- Kallar Kattal Upper
- Sanai Middle
Other villages in Surankote Tehsil
Surankote Tehsil has total 1 villages which are currently not mapped to any Halqa Panchayat.