Lodhran District
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Lodhran District
ضِلع لودھراں | |
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 Map of Punjab with Lodhran District highlighted | |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Province |  Punjab |
| Division | Multan |
| Headquarters | Lodhran city |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,790 km2 (690 sq mi) |
| Population (2017)[1] | |
• Total | 1,700,620 |
| • Density | 950/km2 (2,500/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Number of Tehsils | 3 |
| Website | lodhran.gop.pk |
Lodhran District (Template:Lang-ur), is a district in the province of Punjab, Pakistan, with the city of Lodhran as its capital. Located on the northern side of the River Sutlej, it is bounded to the north by the districts of Multan, Khanewal and Vehari, to the south by Bahawalpur, to the east lie the districts of Vehari and Bahawalpur; while district Multan lies on the western side.
History
Lodhran was split off as a separate district from Multan in 1991.[2]: 1 It has the lowest Human Development Index of all districts in Punjab, and is among the thirty poorest districts in Pakistan.[3]: 85 It is a well-known cotton-growing area.[4][5]
Administrative divisions
Lodhran District is spread over an area of 1,790 square kilometres and is subdivided into three tehsils (Lodhran, Kahror Pakka and Dunyapur) which contain a total of 73 Union Councils:[6]
| Tehsil | No. of Unions |
|---|---|
| Dunyapur | 22 |
| Kahror Pakka | 23 |
| Lodhran | 28 |
| Total | 73 |
Ethnicities and languages
The most widely spoken first language is Saraiki (70%), which is used by the major indigenous social groups of the Baloch, Arain, Kanju, Uttera, Ghallu, Bhutta, Lodhra, Metla, Chaner Syed, Qureshi, Tareen and Pathan. Additionally, Punjabi is spoken by about 19%, primarily by two groups: descendants of the aabaadkaar: settlers from elsewhere in Punjab who arrived in the first half of the 20th century to cultivate the canal colonies, as well as by Muhajirs from the Arain and Jat groups who migrated from the territories that became modern India at the time of Partition in 1947. The major Muhajir group, however, are Rajputs, also known as Rangarr, from the Haryana region, who are speakers of Haryanvi (also known as Rangri). The percentage of the district's population who declared Urdu as their language at the 1998 census was 9%; this includes these Haryanvi speakers as well as other, smaller, groups of Muhajirs such as the Mughal. Additionally, the nomadic Od are speakers of the Od language, while Pashto (0.2%) is spoken by Pashtuns.[3]: 83 [2]: 21
Education
Lodhran has a total of 828 government schools out of which 59 percent (487 schools) are for girl students. The district has an enrolment of 146,345 in public sector schools.[7]
In 2015, a movement was started by Dr. Ashraf Malik, Founder Lodhran University Movement. Plans for the establishment of Lodhran University were announced in November 2015 by Mr. Nawaz Sharif, Prime Minister of Pakistan. As a result of movement a University Campus was started on 1 March 2018 in Lodhran City.[citation needed] So the day was declared as University Day by the Founder of Lodhran University Movement.[citation needed]
Notable people
Notables of the areas and division (Multan) include Former Federal Minister for Housing, Works and Urban Development Makhdoom Syed Nasir Ali Rizvi (Late), Former Minister for State Siddique Khan Kanju, Former Minister Mirza Nasir Baig, Former Federal Minister of State for Overseas Pakistanis Abdur Rehman Khan Knaju, Minister for the Jails Zawar Hussain Waraich, Ex MNA Jhangir Khan Tareen, MNA Mian Shafiq Arain, Dr. Muhammad Ashraf Malik Founder LU Movement, and Mian Rajan Sultan Chairman District Council.
References
- ^ "DISTRICT WISE CENSUS RESULTS CENSUS 2017" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ^ a b 1998 District Census report of Lodhran. Census publication. Vol. 93. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 2000.
- ^ a b Mughal, Muhammad Aurang Zeb (2014). Time, Space and Social Change in Rural Pakistan: An Ethnographic Study of Jhokwala Village, Lodhran District (Thesis). Durham University.
- ^ "Official Webpage of District Lodhran". Retrieved 19 August 2016.
- ^ Khan, Ahmad Fraz (18 January 2021). "Multan's mangoes and multinationals". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
- ^ Tehsils & Unions in the District of Lodhran - Government of Pakistan Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Punjab Annual Schools Census Data 2014-15". Retrieved 19 August 2016.
