Jalandhar District
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Jalandhar district is one of the twenty districts in the state of Punjab in North-West India. The capital is Jalandhar. Nawanshahr district except the Balachaur sub-division was part of the original Jalandhar district until the mid 1990's when a seperate district of Nawanshahr was created including Nawanshahr and Banga areas of Jalandhar district and Balachaur area of Hoshiarpur district.
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Travel options: Travel from Delhi is best planned ahead by reservation in a Shatabdi train for day travel which includes the Indian food served onboard. Recently, the Indian railway websites allow E-tickets to be bought using a credit card and taking a printout of the same, along with a valid photo ID. For more info, see http://www.indianrail.gov.in and see http://www.irctc.co.in for online booking of tickets. For travelling via trains in India, see the excellent post on http://www.indiamike.com/india/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3164 . Work is in progress to put up ATM machines at Railway stations to allow purchase of E-tickets using credit/debit cards. A comfortable, though expensive option, is to contact a tourist agency and rent a vehicle. It can be hot, grimy, dusty and downright painful to travel in the Punjab Roadways buses as they do not have a deluxe service / air-conditioning.
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State of Punjab (India) Punjab Topics | History | Politics | Punjabi people |
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| Capital | Chandigarh |
| Districts | Amritsar • Bathinda • Firozpur • Faridkot • Fatehgarh Sahib • Gurudaspur • Hoshiarpur • Jalandhar • Kapurthala • Ludhiana • Mansa • Moga • Muktsar • Nawanshahr • Patiala • Rupnagar •Mohali • Sangrur |
