Nizampur, Amritsar

Nizampur village is a very old village and the farmers of this village migrated to Lyallpur, currently known as Faisalabad area of Pakistan around the year 1900 when agriculture land was developed in this area with the help of irrigation canals newly built by Britishers. These farmers settled into 4-5 villages one of which was Nizampur Deva Singh Wala, now in Pakistan, district Sheikhupur, during the colonization of Lower Chenab Bar in the early years of 19th century. The residents of this village made up a major portion of the Sikh jatha which went to liberate Nankana Sahib Gurudwara and most of them were martyred in liberating this Gurudwara. The head of this jatha Sh. Tehal Singh belonged to Nizampur. This village has had a primary school even before 1947 and boasted of a cooperative credit society, brick lined bazars and streets even before partition. Majority of the people of this village belong to Kamboj community and are well known for growing vegetables. The residents are quite peace-loving and one has never heard of earned disputes among the residents. The village got a big splash across the media in the 1950s when four armed robbers armed to the teeth with rifles and pistols were over-powered by the villagers with lathis, etc. Due to this act of bravery some of the residents got bravery awards. These details are incorporated by S. Jagir Singh rtd. Chief engineer who is now settled in Chandigarh.

Literacy rate of the village is about 60%. There is an elementary school in the village where small children study. For higher education students have to go to DAV College, Khalsa College or GNDU University, Amritsar. Lot of boys and girls these days go to Amritsar and other cities to gain higher education from colleges like Chandigarh engineering college etc.

Every year in June people celebrate a fair at a holy place in the village called "Baba Sher Singh". The fair is organized with sports like Kabaddi and Wrestling. This fair is on 26 July ( 10th of Haar according to desi calendar). History of this place is that there used to live a priest called Sher Singh. One night some thieves came to steal his cow. But whenever they cross the border of that place they become blind and when they move few steps behind again they gain their visibility. They repeated it several times but same thing happened again and again. From that day the priest gained popularity and thus people arrange the fair to memorize Baba Sher Singh. There is another religious historical place in the village called " Baba Dhora Wala". The fair on this place is on 28 July (12th of Haar according to desi Calendar).