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{{Infobox settlement<br />
| name = Patara<br />
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| image_caption = The [[post office]] at Patara<br />
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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Punjab, India<br />
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| elevation_m = 238<br />
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| postal_code_type = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]<br />
| postal_code = 144101<br />
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'''Patara''' is a village located in [[Jalandhar district]] in the state of [[Punjab (India)|Punjab]] in north [[India]].<ref>[https://nrega.nic.in/Netnrega/citizen_html/musternew.aspx?lflag=&id=1&state_name=PUNJAB&district_name=JALANDHAR&block_name=JALANDHAR-EAST&panchayat_name=Nangal+Fateh+Khan&block_code=2605017&msrno=7052&finyear=2011-2012&workcode=2605017058%2FSK%2F9988982942&dtfrm=08%2F01%2F2012&dtto=13%2F01%2F2012&wn=Bharat+Nirman+Rajeev+Gandhi+Sewa+Kendra%2CNangal+Fateh+Khan&Digest=O63y7Iap8skIFuKa651k1Q NREGA report]</ref> <br />
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== Location ==<br />
The village is located off the Jalandhar-Hoshiarpur Road and is about 8-9 kilometres from the [[Jalandhar]] city centre. Hoshiarpur is about 40&nbsp;km from Patara. The [[Jalandhar Cantonment]] is about 5&nbsp;km from Patara.<br />
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==History==<br />
Patara Village was founded by a wrestler by the name of Dullo, a Jatt Landlord belonging to Khunkhun Clan, nearly 500 years ago. Dullo Jatt, mothers village was Kangniwal near Jalandhar.<br />
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Nihala and Ruldu were the descendents of Dullo Jatt. the Khunkhun Jatt families of Patara maintain the suffix of the two names, Nihala Ke descendents of Nihala and Ruldu Ke descendents of Ruldu.<br />
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== Area information ==<br />
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Patara has a police station, a commercial centre, a nationalized Bank (Bank of India), a cooperative bank, a sub-Post Office (Indian Postal Service Pin Code 144101) and various shops and service providers. There is a small [[gurudwara]] at the end of the road: Gurdwara Peeplan Wala Sahib. There is also a [[Shiva]] temple right across the gurdwara. There is separate boys and girls school in village. There is also library in the village. On Patara road just before there is newly opened petrol pump between Hosiharpur-Jalandhar road and bolina doaba railway station.<br />
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The streets are fairly narrow and suitable for single-lane driving only. The land around the village is flat and fertile.<br />
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Much of the development of the village was carried out under the leadership of Om Parkash who was unanimously elected [[Sarpanch]] for 3 consecutive terms of 4 years each.<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Villages in Jalandhar district]]<br />
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{{Jalandhar district}}<br />
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