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 Toba Tek Singh is a district in the
Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located between 30°33' to 31°2' Degree
north latitudes and 72°08' to 72°48' Degree longitudes.
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History
Origins of Name
The town and district is named after a Sikh religious figure Tek Singh.
Legend has it that Mr. Singh a kind hearted man served water and provided
shelter to the worn out and thirsty travellers passing by a small pond ("TOBA"
in Punjabi) which eventually was called Toba Tek Singh, and the surrounding
settlement acquired the same name. There is also a park here named after the
Sardar Toba.
British Raj
Toba Tek Singh was developed by the British toward the end of the 18th
Century when a canal system was built. People from all over the Punjab
(currently Indian and Pakistani Punjab) moved there as farmlands were
allotted to them. Most of the people who migrated there belonged to Lahore,
Jalandhar,hoshiar pur districts. The Imperial Gazetteer of India
describedthe tehsil of Toba Tek Singh as follows:
Tahsil of the new Lyallpur District, Punjab, lying between 30°50' and 31°23'
N. and 72° 20' and 72°54' E., with an area of 865 square miles (2,240 km2).
The population in 1906 was 148,984. It contains 342 villages, including Toba
Tek Singh (population,1,874), the head-quarters, and GOJRA (2,589), an
important grain market on the Wazirabad -Khanewal branch of the
North-Western Railway. The land revenue and cesses in 1905-6 amounted to 4.7
lakhs. The tahsil consists of a level plain, wholly irrigated by the Chenab
Canal. The soil, which is very fertile in the east of the tahsil, becomes
sandy towards the west. The boundaries of the tahsil were somewhat
modified at the time of the formation of the new District of Lyallpur"
After Independence
During 1970's, when many Pakistani cities were renamed to change names given
after British Rulers to their original or native names or more acceptable
names to local population like Montgomery was renamed to its old original
name Sahiwal, Toba Tek Singh remained one of the very few cities to maintain
its original name mainly because of reputation of Tek Singh. In 1982 Toba
Tek Singh, formerly a subdivision, was separated from Faisalabad District
and became a separate district.
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Demography
Toba Tek Singh is located in central Punjab and occupies 3252 square
kilometres and is made up of large areas of lowlands that flood frequently
during the rainy season; the floods originate from the Ravi River that runs
along the southern and southeastern borders. The Pre-partition T.T.Singh had
a sizeable Sikh population which migrated to Indian Punjab in 1947.
According to the 1998 census of Pakistan the population was 805,580 of this,
520,601 were Muslim and 284,979 were non-Muslim (mainly Christian).
According to the 2008 estimate the population had risen to 1.39 million.
Agriculture Productions
District toba tek singh is one of the best producer of orange "locally known
as kenno". It contribute towards export standard quality of orange produced
in all Pakistan.majority of people living in this district have profession
of agriculture and it produce several kind of agricultural and dairy
products like meat, eggs ,cotton,maze,several
pulses,peach,guava,tommato,mellon, water melon,mangos,tobacco,onion,
Famous People
- The Late Haji Sardar Mohammad Murad Khan
Gadhi ex. MPA
- Mohammad Sarwar (born 18 August 1952, Toba
Tek Singh), a politician in the United Kingdom who served as the Labour
Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Glasgow Central,
Scotland. He was the UK's first Muslim MP.
- Choudhry Asad ur Rehman ex Minister and
MNA.
- Mian Muhammad Aslam Advocate ex Vice
President of Punjab High Court Bar Association
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Choudry Muhammad Ashfaq ex MNA and ex
Distric Nazim.
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Ch Amjad ALi Javed Leader of PML(N).
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Dr. Zahid Sattar Leader of JI.
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Mian Muhammad Rafique MPA.
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Dr. Waheed Akber Leeder Of PTI.
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Neelam Jabbar Ch Minister of Population.
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Choudry Abdul Sattar is currently District
Nazim of Toba Tek Singh and is also ex MNA.
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Ch. Mukhtar Ahmed Nusrat. Member District
Council. Current Nazim. Ex Chairman Market Committee.Treasurer Pakistan
Poultry Association. A Business man.Founder of Layer Poultry Farming in
the region. He started first Free Hospital and donated prime land for the
School. Chaudhry Mukhtat Ahmad Nusrat has supported so many social work
and humanity based organizations. He was the first one who brought
Eidhi Center in Kamalia. He has built a beautiful mosque and contributed
in many other mosques and supported many charity organizations.He was a
Legend.According to people they have not seen this many people in any
person's Janazah in the history of Kamalia.
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Chaudhry Faisal Qazafi, a member of the
public safety Commission and a candidate for Punjab Assembly.
chief justise "Khalil u rehman Ramday's " ancestors also blong from "254 G
B" a village in toba tek singh
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Ex secratery for foreign affairs "Hafiz
ullah ishaque" also belong from above cited village
- A tv actor "Nabeel" also born in this
disrict
Education
Toba Tek Singh has several institutions of higher education including
- CCAPS the new COMSAT University
- GOvt. College of commerce
- Jinnah Public School
- Agriculture University sub campus
also several Modern junior shools for high
school children
In Popular Culture
Sadat Hasan Manto, an Urdu Novelist wrote a short story entitled "Toba Tek
Singh" which is a satire on Partition; in the story, an inmate in
an asylum frets over the question of whether his home town Toba Tek Singh is
now in India or Pakistan. It was adapted into a short movie of
the same name directed by Afia Nathaniel in 2005.Cultivation of kino is also
an important culture of pakistan |
