Lodhran District

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Lodhran District (Urdu: ضِلع لودهراں‬‎), is a district in the Punjab, Pakistan - the city of Lodhran is the capital of the district. It is located on the northern side of 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. 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. It is a well-known cotton-growing area.[3]

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.

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:[4]

Tehsil No. of Unions
Dunyapur 22
Kahror Pakka 23
Lodhran 28
Total 73

Demography

In the 1998 census, 70% of the population had Saraiki as their first language,[5] while Punjabi was the first language of 19% and Urdu – of 9%.[2]:21There is also a significant population of Rajput community which have Haryanvi as their first language.

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.[6]

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 March 1, 2018 in Lodhran City. So the day was declared as University Day by the Founder of Lodhran University Movement.

References

  1. ↑ "DISTRICT WISE CENSUS RESULTS CENSUS 2017" (PDF). www.pbscensus.gov.pk.
  2. 1 2 1998 District Census report of Lodhran. Census publication. 93. Islamabad: Population Census Organization, Statistics Division, Government of Pakistan. 2000.
  3. ↑ "Official Webpage of District Lodhran". Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  4. ↑ Tehsils & Unions in the District of Lodhran - Government of Pakistan Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ "Mother tongue": defined as the language of communication between parents and children, and recorded of each individual
  6. ↑ "Punjab Annual Schools Census Data 2014-15". Retrieved 19 August 2016.

Coordinates: 29°32′24″N 71°37′48″E / 29.54000°N 71.63000°E / 29.54000; 71.63000

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