Lodhran District , 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 byBahawalpur, 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. It has the lowest Human Development Index of all districts in Punjab, and is among the thirty poorest districts in Pakistan. It is a well-known cotton-growing area.
Administrative divisions
Lodhran District is spread over an area of 1,790 square kilometres and is subdivided into three tehsils which contain a total of 73 Union Councils:
Tehsil
No. of Unions
Dunyapur
22
Kahror Pakka
23
Lodhran
28
Total
73
Ethnicities and languages
The most widely spoken first language is Saraiki, which is used by the major indigenous social groups of the Baloch,Malik, Arain Joya, Kanju, Uttera, Ghallu, jatyal, Bhatti, Lodhra, Metla, Chaner Syed, Qureshi, Tareen and Pathan. Additionally, Punjabi is spoken by about %, 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. The percentage of the district's population who declared Urdu as their language at the 1998 census was %; 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 is spoken by Pashtuns.
Education
Lodhran has a total of 828 government schools out of which 59 percent are for girl students. The district has an enrolment of 146,345 in public sector schools. 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. So the day was declared as University Day by the Founder of Lodhran University Movement.
