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'''Pharwahi''' is a village located in [[Punjab, India|Punjab]], in [[Barnala district]], on National Highway 64. It is the first upcoming village on Barnala-Baaliyan-Sangrur road. The approximate distance from [[Barnala]] to Pharwahi is about 5 km.
People are mostly related to Sikhism, but there are the people related to almost all religions.

==History==
'''Pharwahi''' is a historical village which is mostly related to [[Sikhism]]. As according to historical stories, the ninth Guru of Sikhs [[Guru Teg Bahadur|Shri Guru Teg Bahadur ji]] has arrived here in 16** A.D. during their journey. When they came, the people of the village were suffering from an [[epidemic]] of ***.{{clarify|date=May 2014}}

They blessed the people and asked them to make a pond and predicted that the one who will take a holy dip in the water with a clean heart will be free of any type of mental and physical disease. Within no time, the people of Pharwahi overcame the [[epidemic]] and this story was spread in the nearer villages as [[forest fire]]. People started coming from other villages to bathe in the pond.

Now at that place a [[Gurudwara]] had been built and it is widely known as [[Guruduwara Naowi Patshahi Sahib]]. It has been driven by the [[Shiromni Guruduwara Prabandhak Committee]].

== Demographics ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Particulars !! Total !! Male !! Female
|-
| Total No. Of Houses || 955 || ||
|-
| Population || 5,047 || 2,700 || 2,347
|-
| Child (0-6) || 567 || 315 || 252
|-
| Schedule Caste || 2,229 || 1,175 || 1,054
|-
| Schedule Tribe || 0 || 0 || 0
|-
| Literacy || 64.22% || 68.22% || 59.67%
|-
| Total Workers || 1,565 || 1,443 || 122
|-
| Main Workers || 1,438 || 0 || 0
|-
| Marginal Workers || 127 || 0 || 0
|}

Table; Census 2011, Data Of Pharwahi, Barnala (Punjab)
<ref>http://www.census2011.co.in/data/village/39979-pharwahi-punjab.html</ref>

==Administration==
The village is administered by a 10 membered committee, a group of 9 [[Panches]] and one [[Sarpanch]]. These are all elected by the people through direct elections. The last elections were held on 3 July 2019, and Shri Malkiat Singh Meeta was elected as Sarpanch. Nine other people were elected as panches. The names and details of the administration committee are given below.

[[Sarpanch]]:
* Shri Malkiat Singh Meeta w/o Sardar Harwinder Singh (general category)

[[Panches]]:
# Darshan Singh Deol (Gen)
# Jaswant Singh (Gen)
# Proshotam Singh (Gen)
# Darshan Singh Mahant (SC)
# Gora Singh (SC)
# Kaka Singh (SC)
# Sukhwinder Kaur (SC)

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==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Barnala district}}

[[Category:Villages in Barnala district]]

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