Lahore District


Lahore District is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan, mainly consisting of the city of Lahore. The total area is.

Administration

Under the Local Government Act of Punjab, 2013, Lahore District has been declared a Metropolitan Area and divided into nine zones.
According to the 1998 census, the district's population was, % of which was urban. Punjabi is the first language of % of the population, while Urdu and Pashto account for % and % respectively. The 2017 Census revealed a population of over eleven million people.
Eastern Parts of Lahore Tehsil bordering the Amritsar District, were before 1947 Partition, Sikh Jatt Majority. The Sikh Jatts were the Leading Zaildars of Padhana, Thehpura, Qila Jivan, Manhala, Ghawindi, Bhasin.

Education

According to Pakistan District Education Rankings, a report by Alif Ailaan, Lahore is ranked nationally at 32 with a score of 69.2 and learning score of 53.93. Lahore ranks nationally at number 1 in terms of readiness score, with a score of 93.51. According to PEC assessments, Lahore ranks last out of all districts of Punjab in both class 5 and class 8.
Science labs in schools are either not available or have inadequate instruments which also affects quality. The school infrastructure score of Lahore is 91.32, ranking it 29th nationally. Still few schools in a major district like Lahore have open air or dangerous classrooms.
Issues mainly reported in TaleemDo! app from Lahore are that students want to study in private schools, as they are better than government schools but can’t afford the fee. A communication gap between the teachers and the students was also reported and a few reported some facilities problems in their school.