| Chak Guru | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | India Punjab#India |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Punjab, India |
| Coordinates: | 31.1578°N 76.1752°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  India |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Punjab |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar |
| Government Type: | Panchayat raj |
| Governing Body: | Gram panchayat |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Elevation M: | 251 |
| Population Total: | 993[1] |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics Type1: | Languages |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
| Demographics1 Info1: | Punjabi |
| Timezone1: | IST |
| Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
| Postal Code Type: | PIN |
| Postal Code: | 144501 |
| Area Code Type: | Telephone code |
| Area Code: | 01884 |
| Iso Code: | IN-PB |
| Blank1 Name Sec1: | Sex ratio |
| Blank1 Info Sec1: | 882 ♂/♀ |
| Blank1 Name Sec2: | Post office |
| Blank1 Info Sec2: | Kultham[2] |
Chak Guru is a village in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar district of Punjab State, India. It is located away from Garhshankar, from Balachaur, from district headquarter Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and from state capital Chandigarh. The village is administrated by Sarpanch an elected representative of the village.[3]
As of 2011, Chak Guru has a total number of 224 houses and population of 993 of which 518 include are males while 475 are females according to the report published by Census India in 2011. The literacy rate of Chak Guru is 80.25%, higher than the state average of 75.84%. The population of children under the age of 6 years is 107 which is 10.78% of total population of Chak Guru, and child sex ratio is approximately 574 as compared to Punjab state average of 846.[4]
Most of the people are from Schedule Caste which constitutes 66.06% of total population in Chak Guru. The town does not have any Schedule Tribe population so far.
As per the report published by Census India in 2011, 406 people were engaged in work activities out of the total population of Chak Guru which includes 282 males and 124 females. According to census survey report 2011, 89.16% workers describe their work as main work and 10.84% workers are involved in Marginal activity providing livelihood for less than 6 months.[5]
The village has a Punjabi medium, co-ed upper primary school founded in 1976.[6] [7] The schools provide mid-day meal which prepared in school premises. as per Indian Midday Meal Scheme.[8] As per Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act the school provide free education to children between the ages of 6 and 14. The village also has an English medium, co-ed primary with upper primary and secondary school which was founded in 1997.[9] Sikh National College Banga and Amardeep Singh Shergill Memorial college Mukandpur are the nearest colleges.
The village has a historical Sikh shrine Gurudwara Gurpartap where Guru Tegh Bahadur visited and dug a well after seeing the shortage of drinking water.[10] [11] The land to build gurudwara was given by Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
Garhshankar Junction train station is the nearest train station however, Nawanshahr railway station is away from the village. Sahnewal Airport is the nearest domestic airport which located away in Ludhiana and the nearest international airport is located in Chandigarh also Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport is the second nearest airport which is away in Amritsar.[12]