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Chalunka
Chulungkha
village
Chalunka is located in Jammu and Kashmir
Chalunka
Chalunka
Location in Jammu and Kashmir, India
Chalunka is located in India
Chalunka
Chalunka
Chalunka (India)
Coordinates: 34°49′26″N 76°56′06″E / 34.824°N 76.935°E / 34.824; 76.935
Country India
StateJammu and Kashmir
DistrictLeh
TehsilNubra
Population
 (2011)
 • Total516
Time zoneUTC+5:30 (IST)
Census code914
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15km
10miles
Chorbat Lungpa
Chorbat
Lungpa
Hanu stream
Hanu
stream
Shyok river
Shyok river
Batalik
Batalik
Khaplu
Khaplu
Chalunka
Chalunka
Turtuk
Turtuk
Hassanabad Chorbat
Hassanabad
Chorbat La
Chorbat La
Chorbat

Chalunka (Chulungkha) is a village in the Chorbat area of the Shyok River valley in Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India.[1] At the end of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947, it was on the cease-fire line agreed between the India and Pakistan.[2] The village is now interior to Indian-administered Kashmir as further territory to the north of it was captured in Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

The Chalunka village is in the Nubra Tehsil and the Turtuk community development block.[3]

Operations in 1971

On 10 December 1971, the Ladakh Scouts under the command of Major Chewang Rinchen cleared the village of the Pakistani forces (two companies of Karakoram Scouts).[4][5] Advancing further, they attacked Turtuk on 11 December, and captured it by 14 December.[4]

Demographics

According to the 2011 census of India, Chulungkha has 42 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 91.1%.[6]

Demographics (2011 Census)[6]
Total Male Female
Population 516 403 113
Children aged below 6 years 44 22 22
Scheduled caste 53 53 0
Scheduled tribe 223 110 113
Literates 430 372 58
Workers (all) 362 348 14
Main workers (total) 353 342 11
Main workers: Cultivators 36 27 9
Main workers: Agricultural labourers 1 1 0
Main workers: Household industry workers 0 0 0
Main workers: Other 316 314 2
Marginal workers (total) 9 6 3
Marginal workers: Cultivators 2 1 1
Marginal workers: Agricultural labourers 3 1 2
Marginal workers: Household industry workers 0 0 0
Marginal workers: Others 4 4 0
Non-workers 154 55 99

References

  1. ^ Vohra, Mythic Lore from Nubra Valley (1990), p. 231.
  2. ^ Krishna Rao, Prepare or Perish (1991), p. 472, item (d).
  3. ^ "Blockwise Village Amenity Directory 2014–15" (PDF). Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2018.
  4. ^ a b Chakravorty, Stories of Heroism (1995), p. 140.
  5. ^ Cheema, Crimson Chinar (2015), pp. 311–312.
  6. ^ a b "Leh district census". 2011 Census of India. Directorate of Census Operations. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
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