Rayya mandi is a town and a nagar panchayat

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 in Amritsar district

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. Rayya is about 35 KM from Amritsar and 45 km from jalandhar. it is 5 km from the River Beas. RAYYA IS KNOWN FOR ITS GRAIN MARKET. it is also known for girls college, Shaheed Darshan Singh Pheruman College for Women and Shaheed Darshan Singh Pheruman Public School. It is situated on GT Road (National Highway). The major towns and villages near Rayya include: Baba Bakala, Beas, Pheruman, Dhianpur and Tangra. Most of the people residing in Rayya have come from the nearby villages.

History

As per a story there were three brothers named Fattu, Feru and Aiya who took over the area almost 200 years ago and made three settlements at different locations. With time these three settlements grew up and became villages which were later on known as Fatuwal, Feruman and Aiya. The name of Aiya was later on changed to Rayya.now rayya has grown up to big town and have every basic facility to live and satisfy need to live in a city .Rayya is also famous for its grain market which is largest in Asia in the aspect of food grain purchase.

NOW RAYYA

Rayya is a big town in Amritsar distt. it has big grain market. it is situated on national highway it has different bazaars like Darge bazaar, mochi bazaar, lovely sweets wali gali, Bank wali gali Pheruman Road bazaar, lyalpur wali gali, Gurdwara chowk etc. SHANT NAGAR is the one of best area in Rayya mandi it has many schools - S.D.S.P.P. school is one of the best schools in the area. Rayya has many banks, two govt schools separate for girls and boys.

EDUCATION

There are many schools and colleges in Rayya mandi

• SHAHEED DARSHAN SINGH PHERUMAN college for women
• Montessery college of higher education
• SHAHEED DARSHAN SINGH PHERUMAN public school
• Guru nanak public school
• Govt sen sec school for boys
• Govt sen sec school for girls
• Montessery public school
• Jyoti modal school
• JANTA MODEL SCHOOL

HEALTH

There are many hospitals in Rayya mandi

• Govt Hospital
• Sharma Eye Hospital
• Anand Hospital
• Bath nursing home
• kapoor Hospital
• singhania Hospital
• Sehaj Hospital

BANKS

• Punjab National Bank
• State Bank of Patiala
• State Bank of India
• Punjab and Sind Bank
• Axis Bank
• OBC Bank
• canara Bank
• Uco Bank
• Amritsar co. Bank
• Gramean bank

RAYYA AS A BLOCK IN AMRITSAR DISTT

Rayya mandi is one of the biggest block in Amritsar distt.it covers about 83 villages. The main villages under Rayya are Baba bakala, Beas,Khalchian, Mehta,Butter, Sathiala,Butala, Dhianpur,Pheruman etc. It is the center point from Amritsar, jalandhar,tarn taran, kapurthala,batala etc.

GRAIN MARKET

Rayya have big grain market.it is best known mandi in punjab. Rayya have big storeage godowns.

Religious Places in Rayya

• Vadda Gurdwara
• Ramwara temple
• Gurdwara Baba Namdev
• Mata Rani temple
• Baba Mehar shah
• Gurdwara Nanak darbar
• Shani temple

SHAHEED DARSHAN SINGH PHERUMAN RAYYA MANDI

SARDAR DARSHAN SINGH PHERUMAN (1885–1969), political leader and martyr, was born at the village of Pheruman, in Rayya block of Amritsar district, on 1 August 1885. His father's name was Chanda Singh and his mother's Raj Kaur. After passing his high school examination, he joined in 1912 the Indian army as a sepoy. Two years later, he resigned from the army and set up as a contractor at Hissar. He was doing well as a contractor, when a taunt from his mother, who was deeply religious, led him to give up his business and plunge into the Akali movement for the reform of Gurdwara management.
In 1921, he was arrested in the morcha launched by Sikhs for recovering from the British deputy commissioner of Amritsar keys of the Golden Temple treasury he had seized, and was imprisoned for one year. In December 1924, he led the 14th ShahidiJatha toJaito, and was jailed for ten months. He also took part in the noncooperation movement launched by the Indian National Congress, serving a 14month term in jail. In 1926, he visited Malaya where he was detained by the British on the basis of his political record in India. While in jail, he went on a fast in protest against the orders forbidding the wearing of kachara, one of the five symbols of Khalsa discipline.
He continued the fast for 21 days, ending it only when he had won his point. Returning home, Darshan Singh joined the Civil Disobedience movement and courted imprisonment thrice. He took part in the Quit India campaign during the Second World War. For a number of years, he was a member of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee and its general secretary for two terms. He was elected a member of the Rajya Sabha as a nominee of the Indian National Congress and retained his seat up to 1964. In 1959, he severed his connection with the Congress and joined the Swatantra Party of which he was one of the founders.
In August 1969, Darshan Singh resolved to lay down his life to atone for what he termed as resilement on the part of some of the Sikh leaders from the solemn pledges they had taken at Sri Akal Takht and to have their default in not being able to secure the inclusion of Chandigarh and some other areas in the newly demarcated Punjab redeemed. So determined, he went on a fast unto death inside the Central Jail at Amritsar on 15 August. He stuck to his vow and stubbornly refused to have any nourishment until his demand for the amalgamation with the Punjab of the Punjabi speaking areas kept out of the new Punjab was conceded. On 27 October 1969, which was the 74th day of his fasting, he died. For the supreme sacrifice he thus made to rewrite the sanctity of a Sikh's plighted word, his name is honoured among the martyrs of the Sikh faith. Now a school and college is running on his name in Rayya mandi