Narowal District

Narowal District
—  District  —
Location of Narowal in Punjab.
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
Capital	Narowal
Established
Government
– Chairman District Public Safety Commission, Narowal	Chaudhary Irfan Abid
Area
– Total	2,337 km2 (902.3 sq mi)
Population (1998)
– Total	1,156,097
– Density	538/km2 (1,393.4/sq mi)
Time zone	PST (UTC+5)
District Council
Number of Tehsils	3

Narowal District (Urdu: ضلع نارووال) is a district in the province of Punjab of Pakistan. Narowal city is the capital of the district. Narowal District is divided into three tehsils: Narowal, Shakargarh and Zafarwal. Before the independence of Pakistan in 1947, Shakargarh town was the headquarters of Shakargarh Tehsil, which was a subdivision of the Gurdaspur District of British India. Under the Radcliffe Award, the tehsil of Shakargarh was transferred to Pakistan and attached to Sialkot District. On July 1, 1991, Narowal and Shakargarh were removed from Sialkot District to form Narowal District.

Boundaries

The district is bounded on the northwest by Sialkot District, on the north by Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir, on the southeast by the contested Pathankot tehsil of Gurdaspur district (Republic of India), on the south by Amritsar district (Republic of India) and on the southwest by Sheikhupura District in Pakistan.

Demography

The total area of the district is approximately 2,337 square kilometres. Prior to the creation of Zafarwal Tehsil in July 2009,^[1] Narowal Tehsil occupied 1,065 square kilometres while the remaining area (1,272 square kilometres) fell in Shakargarh Tehsil. According to the 1998 census of Pakistan, Narowal District's population was 1,256,097, of which only 12.11% were urban.^[2]

Notable Residents

• Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Urdu poet from the village of Kala Qadir
• Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar Khan, Longest serving Parliamentarian from 1951 to 1999.
• Dr. Tahir Ali Javed, Ex Health Minister and Special Education Minister (Punjab)
  1. ^ "Zafarwal to become tehsil on July 1". Dawn. Feb 2, 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2010.

• ^ Urban Resource Centre - Population table
• , Head of Unification Bloc, MPA

• Dr. Naimat Ali Javed, Ex District Nazim Narowal, Heavy Water Nuclear Scientist, N.A. Javed, Director of Directorate of Quality Assurance (DQA).
• Ahsan Iqbal, MNA Narowal.

Basic Statistics of the District Narowal

01

Population:

1.4 million 02

Urban:

22% 03

Rural:

78% 04

Population Density:

541 per sq km 05

No. House holds:

206,000 06

No. of Union Councils:

74 07

No. of villages:

1250 08

Literacy Rate:

62% 09

Lit. Rate (male)

72% 10

Lit. Rate (female)

41% 11

Tehsils

3 12

National Assembly Constituencies

3+1 = 4 13

Provincial Assembly Constituencies

5 14

Union Councils

74 15

Zila Council Members

108 16

Elected Representatives

1031 17

Villages

1316 18

Literacy Rate

70% 19

Population (Million)

1.265 20

Rural / Urban Ratio

88:12

References

N.A. Javed, Director of Directorate of Quality Assurance (DQA).

External links

• Profile of Narowal District

Coordinates: 32°13′N 74°57′E / 32.217°N 74.95°E / 32.217; 74.95