About Gurdaspur

The Gurdaspur district is the northern most district of Punjab state. It falls in the Jalandhar division and is sandwiched between river Ravi and Beas. The district lies between north-latitude 310-36' and 320-34' and east longitude 740-56' and 750-24' and shares common boundaries with Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir state in the north, Chamba and Kangra districts of Himachal Pradesh in the north-east, Hoshiarpur district in the south-east, Kapurthala district in the south, Amritsar district in the south west and Pakistan in the north west. The total area of the district is 3562 Sq. Km.

Included in the Jalandhar Division of the Punjab, the Gurdaspur District lies in the northwest corner of the State on the India-Pakistan frontier along the Indian side of the River Ravi. A Portion of the district is also situated beyond the River Ravi. It is somewhat like a gun.

Of the three tehsils (Batala, Gurdaspur and Dera Baba Nanak) which comprise the district, the two southern Batala and Gurdaspur, area situated in the Bari Doab between the Beas and Ravi rivers, and present the ordinary features of the Punjab plains. Pathankot, which is to the north of Gurdaspur, lies mostly between the Chakki stream (an affluent of the Beas) on the east and the Ravi on the west but includes Chak Andhar (formed into the sub-tehsil of the Narot Jaimalsingh in 1973), a small tract beyond the Ravi and between that river and its tributary the Ujh, which is copiously irrigated by a network of canals. The Chak Andhar and the rest of the lower portion of Pathankot is in a modified degree a terai country, with very little vegetation. The land has now been reclaimed to a considerable extent and is arable.