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== Toba Tek Singh ==

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 Choudry Muhammad Ashfaq ex MNA and ex Distric Nazim.

Ch Amjad ALi Javed Leader of PML(N).

Dr. Zahid Sattar Leader of JI.

Mian Muhammad Rafique MPA.

Dr. Waheed Akber Leeder Of PTI.

Neelam Jabbar Ch Minister of Population.

Choudry Abdul Sattar is currently District Nazim of Toba Tek Singh and is also ex MNA.

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. Chaudhry Rasheed Ahmad Gujjar,Leader of PML(N),Ex Member District Assembley Toba Tek Singh,Ex City Nazim and Vice Chairman Kamalia. 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

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 pakistanBold text hasan nagra