Dhudike

Dhudi-ke ਢੁੱਡੀ-ਕੇ
Village
Dhudi-ke Location in Punjab, India[1]
Coordinates: 30°46′26″N 75°20′41″E / 30.77389°N 75.34472°E / 30.77389; 75.34472Coordinates: 30°46′26″N 75°20′41″E / 30.77389°N 75.34472°E / 30.77389; 75.34472
Country	India
State	Punjab
district	Moga
Tehsil	Moga
Government
• Type	Elected
• Body	Panchayat[2]
• Sarpanch	Gary Heir (Aam Aadmi Party of Punjab (AAP))
Elevation	233 m (767 ft)
Population (2011)[3]
• Total	6,200
• Male	3,239
• Female	2,961
Languages
• Official	Punjabi (Gurmukhi)
• Regional	Punjabi
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN Code	142053[4]
Area code(s)	01636
ISO 3166 code	ISO 639-1 pa, ISO 639-2 pan, ISO 639-3 Either: pan – Indian Punjabi or pnb - Pakistani Punjabi
Vehicle registration	PB 29
Nearest city	Moga
Sex ratio	1000/914 ♂/♀
Lok Sabha Constituency	Faridkot
Website	www.dhudike.com

Dhudike is a village in Moga-I Tehsil in Moga district of Punjab state, India. It is located 17 km east from District Moga. Freedom fighters like Baba Ishar Singh, Baba Pala Singh Jathedar, Baba Pakhar Singh are few of the Gadaree from Dhudike who participated in the Gadar Movement during the struggle for independence. Dhudike was the birthplace of the famous Lala Lajpat Rai. Furthermore, during the infamous Emergency days of the 70's, underground activity supporting the ideals of the Naxalite communist movement were prevalent in this area. Such topics, including a variety of others, are touched upon by renowned Punjabi writer Jaswant Singh Kanwal who is also from Dhudike.

History

Dhudike is the village of Gills. Gills are related to Bathinda. Raja Bivepal Singh was the son of Raja Abhaypal Singh the king of Bharner. After the death of Raja Abhaypal Singh, there was a conflict between Binepal Singh and his step brothers. The step-brothers expelled Binepal Singh, who later on ruled over Bathinda. Binepal built a fort on the bank of river Satluj in 665 A.D. In the tenth generation of Binepal Singh, Raja Pirthipal got married with a poor Bhullar Jatt girl, being issueless. When Gillpal was born his counter Rattan mal was expelled from his Kingdom with the charge of betrayal. After many years in revenge, he named himself Rattan Hazi and perviked the Jarnail Roshan Ali of Bagdad. Roshan Ali attacked Bathinda. Gillpal ruled at that time. Gillpal family left Bathinda. From his family Badhan Gills founde Rajeania. In the next generation in 1280 BC King was born. He was very pious and lived out side in thick trees called zirhi. Biar’s of that area attacked Rajeaina. In this battle the king was killed and his monument was still in village Rajeaina. After winning Rajeaina they stopped towards Moga The. The king had eight sons, one of them was Dhudi. In the eighth generation of Dhudi, Gurdas Baro and Salem Shah was born to Surat. They were sitting towards the east (Moga side) near Godha wala Shapar. They daily took their cattle to this place for grazing. This shappar is still here and people called it Dohiwala shappar. In the evening, they returned after milking. After some time Gurdas Baso and Salim Shah Sat near Dohiwala chappar. In 1640 BC Gurdas’s elder son Bhomia founded this village and this village was named Dhudike after his ancestor’s name Dhudi. Gurdas had four sons. They were Bhomia, Kapoora, Dalpat and Sukhchain. The village has six patties. Bhomia founded Kollu, Kapoora founded. Kapoorae, and Dalpat’s elder son Jhada founded Jhanda Patti the elder son of Jhanda founded village Madhoke. There were Sarans, Sidhus, Sandhu, Grewal, Dhaliwal, Dhonoa’s, Heru and Ponnu families live in this village. There is a Gurdwara with beautiful building called Uchha Dera. Even Sikh marriage ceremonies (Anand Karg) are perform here.

From the foundation story of this village, we come to know that whenever any body laid a foundation stone of any village then co-operation of other people of that area was also taken so that people can live there. Routine works of like is done together. Carpenters make plough, Black smith make different tools and weavers weave cloths for them. Sadhar helps the time of marriage ceremonies. The main occupation of Jatt’s were agriculture. All of them help Jatts and live together happily.

In this village in Ramedasia’s Saroae came foe Dolan, Kaler from Tajpur, Chumber from Gujjarwal and some families came from Doaba. Some families of Majbi Sikhs came from Paton, Malseehan, Doaba and Moga also. Ramgarhias came from Rodan, Bairag’s from Heran, Parjapat from Shandaran, Kateria’s from Amritsar and Garvi wale Brahmin’s came from Lahore. They all make it a modern village. Salig Ram News Agent told us that now approx almost 3000 news papers are consumed in this village.

The village is proud that this is the village of a prominent Punjabi novelist S. Jaswant Singh Kanwal. Who contributed the Punjabi literature by writing many novels. We can’t talk about Punjabi literature without talking about Jaswant Singh Kanwal. He is not only a prominent Punjabi writer but also contributed a lot in the development of the village as he was the mayor for some time. Dr. Ajit Singh was an competent story writer. His collection of stories are also published. He lived in Delhi so Punjabi critics take no notice of him. Darshan Gill is also a great poet of this village, Dr. Jaswant Gill, the wife of Sh. Jaswant Singh Kanwal also wrote about Philology. Beyond them, Gurcharan Dhudike, Amarjit Dhudike, Beant Bawa also same writers. The library meetings are held here in which writers Principal Sujan Singh, Shiv Kumar, Ishar Singh Atari, Balraj Sahni, Karamjit Kussa, Kirpal Singh Kesal, Tera Singh Chan and Dr. Jagtar take part. We can not forget about Principal Srvan Singh who taught in Dhudike College. Kanwaljit brought Principal Sarvan Singh here in Dhudike from Delhi. Now people know him as Principal Sarwan Singh Dhudike. He wrote many books about Khed literature. Although Satpal does not belong to this village but actively participate in the development of this village as Dhudike is his village. Village Parchagat works for the development of the village.^[5]

Geography

Dhudike is located at 30°45′N 75°20′E / 30.75°N 75.33°E / 30.75; 75.33.^[6] It has an average elevation of 233 metres (767 feet). Located in India, Punjab and district Moga. This village is located 4 km south of Ajitwal, which is at NH95 (Moga-Ludhiana Highway)

It is 19 km from Moga. 160 km from State capital Chandigarh. Matwani(6 km), Ajitwal(6 km), Nathu Wala Jadid (6 km), Kokri Phula Singh(7 km), Mehna(8 km) are the nearby Villages to Dhudike. Dhudike is surrounded by Moga-Ii Tehsil towards west, Moga Tehsil towards west, Moga-I Tehsil towards west, Nihal Singh Wala Tehsil towards South. Jagraon, Moga, Bhagha Purana, Raikot are the nearby Cities to Dhudike.

Climate

Being in north of India Dhudi-ke go through winter in November to early February. Temperature goes down up to 6.4 °C in the night. From the middle of December and till end of January fog usually upsets normal life. February and March are pleasant months and temperatures vary between 18 and 24 °C it is spring season. April to October is summer time and temperature can go up to 41 °C. In summer humidity goes up.

Demographics

Dhudike is small village located in Moga Tehsil of Moga district, Punjab with total 1234 families residing. The Dhudike village has population of 6200 of which 3239 are males while 2961 are females as per Population Census 2011. Punjabi is the Local Language here.

In Dhudike village population of children with age 0-6 is 633 which makes up 10.21% of total population of village. Average Sex Ratio of Dhudike village is 914 which is higher than Punjab state average of 895. Child Sex Ratio for the Dhudike as per census is 924, higher than Punjab average of 846.

Dhudike village has lower literacy rate compared to Punjab. In 2011, literacy rate of Dhudike village was 75.48% compared to 75.84% of Punjab. In Dhudike Male literacy stands at 79.38% while female literacy rate was 71.21%.

As per constitution of India and Panchyati Raaj Act, Dhudike village is administrated by Sarpanch (Head of Village) who is elected representative of village.^[8]

Caste Factor

In Dhudike village, most of the villagers are from Schedule Caste (SC). Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 35.98% of total population in Dhudike village. The village Dhudike currently doesn’t have any Schedule Tribe (ST) population.^[8]

Work Profile

In Dhudike village out of total population, 1950 were engaged in work activities. 97.08% of workers describe their work as Main Work (Employment or Earning more than 6 Months) while 2.92% were involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months. Of 1950 workers engaged in Main Work, 579 were cultivators (owner or co-owner) while 368 were Agricultural labourer.^[8]

Places of interest

Educational institutes

• Lala Lajpat Rai Govt. College - established on Maddoke Road in 1967.
• North West Institute of Engineering & Technology
• Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial College of Education - established in the year 2003 at Dhudike (Moga) and operated by the Shri Guru Nanak Dev Educational Society, Moga and affiliated to Punjab University.
• Baba Pakhar Singh Senior Secondary School - from 6th to 12th class
• Govt. Primary School - from 1st to 5th class
• Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Nursery School

Lala Lajpat Rai Birth Memorial

In 1956 the villagers along with the co-operate of people of the area, Registered the birthplace Memorial Committee, Dhudike. Lal Bhadur Shastri was the first President of this committee. The fund was arranged from the country and foreign for the building of this memorial. On 17 November 1959 Dr. Rajinder Parshad laid the foundation stone of this memorial and Lal Bhadur Shashtri inaugurated this memorial on 28 January 1965. A wide stage was built on the birthplace of Lala Lajpat Rai. Here the special functions are held on Independence Day, Martyrom Day and Birthday of Lala Lajpat Rai on 26, 27, 28 January. A Khed Mela was also organized. The budget of this mela is six to seven lakh.^[9]

Library

Dhudi-ke has its own Library located in Birth Place building of Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Hall Situated in the centre of city. It contains a variety of books from many different languages including English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.

Religious Places

There are five Gurudwaras, a Hindu temple, a Muslim Dargah (a place of save Muslim sage) and a Dera Bohran wala in the village. People from all the religions visit these places.

Gurudware Beri Sahib

Gurudwara Beri Sahib built in the memory of Sixth Guru of Sikhes Shri Guru Hargobind Sahib ji.

Uccha Dera

Gurdwara Uchha Dera is one of the main building of Dhudike.

Kutia Sahib

Kutia Sahib is in west side of the village. The saints from Haridwar used to visit this place. The great pious men stayed here and guided the people to do good deeds, and always to remember the God through sermons. First of all Maharaj Anant Parkash used to go here and give sermons and went back after few days. He got his education from Kashi. He also taught many sadhus and sages. He also established Gaushalas at various places. He also gave sermons at various places to save the humanity. Every year on 7 Poh (January) Shri Akand Path Sahib was instalise. People contribute in this religious function. Guru Ka Langar was also prepared.

After Maharaj Anant Parkash, Maharaj Parmatma Jyoti visited this place every year and delivered his sermons. He stayed at Chiahar Gaushala and Maharaj Ramanad Ji also delivered his sermon along with him and they returned after the Barsi of Maharaj Anant Parkash. His stay is at Haridwar. There is a Shiv Mandir in this Kutia, constructed by Maharaj Anant Parkash. S.Bachan Singh, Chanan Singh; Pal Singh gave land in donation for this Kutia Sahib. People of village have great respect for this place.^[10]

Gurudwara Chhauni Sahib

This Gurudwara of Dhudike is situated on the phirani of village in Baja Patti on the Dhadhur link road. It is the first and oldest Gurudwara of the village. Many years ago, there was a single room, the residential rooms and also kacha rooms. But a pious man of the village Bhag Singh changed its look with the blessing and guidance of Sant Baba Ujjagar Singh. Now a new building is constructed and new roads are built for the convenience of the people. In this building lies install is the Sri Guru Granth Sahib. We do not get enough knowledge about this Guredwara, but when we read the history we find that in the Baja Patti of village there were seven or eight families of Mittal Banias. One of them was Granth also. The freedom fighter and Saheed Lala Lajpat Rai ji was born there on 28 January 1865. It is the maternal village of Lala Lajpat Rai ji. His mother Gulab Devi used to go to the Gurdwara and recite Shri Japuji Sahib. This shows that this Gurdwara is very old. At that line this Gurdwara was out side the village. There were Chappars (ponds) around it. There were tree of peepal,Bohar, and Karcer, but now we can see beautiful building of Gurudwara sahib. The way to the Gurudwara was broaden from the gate of the Gurudwara with this the Guruwara look magnificent.^[11]

Lala Lajpat Rai Birthday Mela

On 28 January 1956, L. Mohan Lalji organized the first Lala Lajpat Rai Birthday Rural Conference at village Dhudike, under the chairmanship of L. Jagat Narain, former Education Minister, Punjab. The budget of the first Mela was only about Rs. 2.000/-. Every year it has been expanding & rural games like kabaddi, hockey, volleball, bullock-cart races and dog races have been added. Many Union Ministers, Governors, Chief Ministers and Ministers of Punjab have been attending the Mela every year as chief guests.

On 28 January 1991, a national convention of the main leaders of all National political parties was held in which Shri Chandrashekahr, Prime Minister, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee of B.J.P., Shri I.K. Gujral of Janta Dal, Ch. Balram Jakhar, General Secretary, A.I.C.C., Shri Harkishan Singh Surjeet, General Secretary, C.P.M., Shri Inderjit Gupt, General Secretary, C.P.I. addressed a gathering against terrorism in Punjab. Gen. O.P. Malhotra, Governor, Punjab welcomed. Shri Krishan Kant, President of the Society and Governor of Andhra Pradesh, presided.^[12]

Transportation

Rail

Ajitwal Railway Station and Parao Mahna Rail Way Station are the very nearby railway stations to Dhudike. However Ludhiana Jn Rail Way Station is major railway station 57 km near to Dhudike.^[13]

Bus

Buses come from Moga and Jagraon via near by villages. Although they are not that frequent but if you know its timing in advance then its a good way to reach Dhudike.

Auto/Tempo service is available from Ajitwal bus stop and from Jagraon bus stand as well with nominal charges.

First wifi village of Punjab

Dhudike is the first wi-fi village of Punjab.On 8-10-2015 this village was launched as first wi-fi village of Punjab by the district administration of Moga with a cost of around Rs.one cr.With this the village has become the second wi-fi village of India.^[14][15]

References

External links

"Census". census2011. Retrieved 18 December 2014.