Balwant Singh was born in Rajoana Kalan village near Raikot in Ludhiana district of Punjab in a Jatt Sikh family on 23 August 1967.he joined the Punjab Police.
Rajoana Kalan has an official area of 562 Hectares and a population of 1,239 persons in 1991, and is in the local administration ward of Sudhar, 18 km from Mullanpur and not far from the towns of Jagraon and Moga.