Uggu Chak (اُگو چک is a populated village of Gujranwala District, Punjab, Pakistan. Uggu Chak is one of the biggest UC's of the Gujranwala City with strong political background and highly populated area. Situated on the Hafiz Abad Gujranwala Road, 13 Km west of the city of Gujranwala. It is having canal on one side of the villagemain road bisects the village in two parts. It has many hamlets like Sheikhanwala, Hondlanwala, Sajjadaywala and Pakka Khuh. Its surrounding villages and towns are Papnakha, Hardupur, Sahanki, Maan, Piru Kot and Qila Didar Singh.
Etymology
Uggu chak is an old village named after the name of a Muslim who owned this territory, known as Uggu. It was situated on the Tibba or high ground, allocated to the Warraich Calan. Including this village he owned the large area of land of the nearby villages. He used to graze their herds when this area was meadows in the past Later people turned this land in residential area and started calling this as Uggu Chak. It had a sizeable Hindu and Sikh population, which left it in 1947, at the time of partition. The schedule caste became Christians and continued living there. Some Sansi families converted to Islam. At the time of partition, people from Pattiala state and Amritsar District replaced the Hindu/Sikh population. There was another wave of migration from Kashmir. Hindu Dharamsala and the temple were used as residential places. There was no trace of Gurudawara in 1955 and it is doubted whether one existed in the pre-partition days.
Education
The Primary School was established for boys in 1955. It was under district board and later it became Government School. The girls' school was established in 1967, with the personal efforts of Maulana Mohammad Fazil, who daughter was the first teacher of that school. The boys school had produced many educated people who had gained a great name in their respective fields. They were physicians like Brig Waheed Uz Zaman Tariq, Dr Saif Ur-Rahman, which were celebrated; one by Hakim Rafie and other by Baba Rahm Rahm. Hakim Rafi's father Imam Din Uggu Chakya was a great calligraphist and traditional healer. Hakim Rafi himself did calligraphy with his son Mian Kalu and Abdu Rahman. Aziz watchmaker, Post Office head, Chaudhari Ata Ulla, Maulan Ahmad Ali, Haji Ramzan Nambardar, Haji Ramzan Chota, Master Ismaiel, Cahana Patwari, Zia Ullah Warraich, Hakim Nazir and Maulan Mohammad Fazil were prominent persons.
Mosque
There are almost five mosques, jamia and Quran-teaching instituts, peoples of distance areas come there and get education in these institutes. Maulana Mohammad Fazil shifted to that village and worked as Imam in 1945, till his death in 1997. He was instrumental in teaching hundreds of students and did philanthropic work. Famous scholar Dr Yousaf Goraya was his student. Maulan Yasir Irfan, his son is now the Imam and Kaheteeb of his mosque.
