Dagai, Swabi
| Dagai | |
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| Town and union council | |
 Dagai
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| Coordinates: 34°10′03″N 72°18′20″E / 34.1675°N 72.3055°ECoordinates: 34°10′03″N 72°18′20″E / 34.1675°N 72.3055°E | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| District | Swabi District |
| Time zone | PST (UTC+5) |
| Postal code | 23340 |
Dagai is a village and Union Council of Swabi District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Dagai, known from outside as Yarhussain Dagai, is located 5 km south of Shewa adda, the main commercial area of the region, and 2 km east of Yarhussain. It is one of the largest villages in district Swabi. According to the census of 1998 (Pakistan), its population was over 16000. It lies in the most southern part of Swabi, with Dandoka to its north, Yarhussain to its west, Maneri to its east and Urmal Dheri to its south.
Dagai has one basic health unit (BHU), one post office, one higher secondary school and many schools for girls, as well as two govt high school for boys. There is one HBL Branch and one utility store in Dagai. in 2012, a cricket Academy (Junaid Khan Crricket Academy) was opened for the boys to train and produce new cricket players.
People of Dagai mostly belong to the Yousafzai tribe of Pukhtoons.
According to a report of UNESCO, Dagai was the village with maximum enrollment of students on each standard (Primary, Higher Secondary and even on Degree Level), Engineers, MBBS Physician and more than ten PhD doctors in various fields. Hamid Ali, one of the residents of the Village Dagai went USA on a non profit scholarship and got the honor of directly serving in the US State Department for more than one year, a very rare honor ever bestowed upon anyone else in the whole province. Almost 95% of its male population is literate.
Suburbs include Sikandarai, Bachai, Sapruna, Shumlo, Kaday, Rashaka, Matra, Mohib Banda, khamacha,Badraga, Shukaa, Saro Wand, Sadray Khair abad etc.
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