Kot Radha Kishan
Kot Radha Kishan is a city and Tehsil headquarters of Kot Radha Kishan Tehsil in Kasur District in the Punjab province of Pakistan Known as KRK. The City is administratively subdivided into four Union councils.[1] It was formerly part of Kasur Tehsil and now it has been rewarded with the status of tehsil of district kasur due to the basic necessities of the current time and the mounting population of the area .It is located at 31°10'21N 74°5'59E with an altitude of 193 metres. Kot Radha Kishan is also called 'City of Containers and Leather'.[2]
Kot Radha Kishan
كوٹ رادها كِشن | |
|---|---|
City of Leather & Containers | |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Province | Punjab |
| Government | |
| • Chairman MC | Khalid Bhatti Japani |
| Elevation | 216 m (709 ft) |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Estimate () | 317,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Number of Union councils | 4 |
| City of Leather and Containers | |
Population
The population of Kot Radha Kishan is about 1,55,000 with an annual growth rate of 2.7%, household size 7.4 and literacy rate is about 69%. The population of the surrounding villages of Kot Radha Kishan is more than 1,62,000 with a literacy rate of about 53%. These surrounding villages are totally depending on Kot Radha Kishan in sense of Railway Station, Bus Stand, Post Office, Banks, Colleges, Girls High Schools, sub-division courts, crops and vegetable market and to buy the house hold items for their daily use.
Living
The educated people of Kot Radha Kishan as well as surrounding villagers are mostly dependent on government as well as private jobs. Illiterate people of the town work as workers in the nearby industrial zone of Raiwind as well as in Lahore. Others from villages depend on agriculture. Small numbers of people have power loom industries in their homes.
Prem Nagar Village, where a large railway dry port is operational, is situated in between Raiwand and Kot Radha Kishan in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.
Health
Although the population of Kot Radha Kishan is around 1,35,000. In 2014, Government hospital is now re-build with 80 beds. There is a public hospital "Rural Health Centre" that has two medical officers, a dental technician and around six paramedics. This hospital was granted the status of Tehsil Headquarters Hospital by the Punjab Government but unfortunately, basic health facilities are not yet provided in the hospital due to bad management and private practice of the doctors.People of this city and surrounding villages are enforced to contact hospitals in other cities like Lahore and private hospitals. Various small private hospitals are also set up in this city and these hospitals and highly qualified nursing and paramedical staff. Noor Hospital is one of the biggest in private sector hospitals with around 45 beds. A dozen of consultants with different specialities also visit this hospital from Lahore.
Education
In the public sector, there are three separate public high schools for boys and girls, including Govt. High School No. 1 for boys, Govt. High School Kot Sardar Muhammad Khan and a high school for girls. There is also a large number of private schools are running in the city. This shows the love and devotion of the local people toward education. A High School in near village Pemar Utar is serving the people for many decades. The students of this school won prizes at district as well as divisional level. There are three degree colleges, two for boys and the other one for girls. These colleges provide education for intermediate and degree levels. Recently, a modern library has been built in the degree college for girls. Branches of various school chains like 'The Educators',[3] 'Dar-e-Arqam are also spreading the light of education in the cityKot Radha Kishan is the smallest tehsil of Lahore Division but the 2nd highest literacy rate after Pattoki.
Major Educational Institutes
Approximately there are more than 170 Educational Institutes in Kot Radha Kishan few of them are listed below as Kot Radha Kishan is the smallest tehsil of Lahore Division but the 2nd highest literacy rate after Pattoki.
1. Govt College For Boys
2. Govt Post Graduate College For Girls
The only Govt College for female students of Kot Radha Kishan and surrounding villages.
3. Government Girls High School Mir Sahib Road Kot Radha Kishan Government Girls High School Bhai Pheru Road
One of the oldest institute for girls in Kot Radha Kishan who produced many notable personalities.
4. Government Boys High School Kot Radha Kishan No.1 Government Boys High School No.2
One of the oldest institute for boys in Kot Radha Kishan who produced many notable personalities.
5. Government Boys High School Kot Sardar Muhammad Khan
One of the oldest institute for boys in Kot Radha Kishan who produced many notable personalities.
6. Punjab Computer College Teacher Colony 7. Minhaj-ul-Quran Public School
8. The Learning School
In February 2002, Kot Radha Kishan Development Trust (KDT) was established to provide high-quality education in the area. The first project of KDT was the Learning school.[4] The local community contributed more than 20 million Pak Rupees in 2002 for its establishment.[5] The Learning School is catering the 20 km surrounding 52 villages through its own transport and its only school of Kasur district having its own transport system.[6] More than eight badges of matriculation classes passed with high marks from the school and are studying at different high ranking universities.[7] KDT is not getting any profit out of it but a nominal fee is being charged to the students for its sustainability as it is not depending on any donor but to run the school independently.[8]
9. Allied School System
10. Al-Riaz Model High School for Boys
11. Al-Islam Model High School
12. City Public School
13. Nobel Grammar Middle School
14. Little Angels Schools
15. Itafaq School System
16. Kids Valley - Montessori School
17. Govt Pakistan Model Elementary School
18. Allied School System
19. Iqra Rozatul Atfal Trust (اقراء روضۃالاطفال ٹرسٹ)
20. NEED SCHOOL, Azeem campus krk.
21. Dar-e-Arqam
22 Academy of Shining Stars
23 VISION QUEST Grammar School. (Kot Radha Kishen Campus)
24 Al-Niaz Girls High School
25 Al- Riaz Model Girls High School
26 kahnore Education House
27 The Educators, Kahnore Campus
28 The Rising Sun School
Murders of Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi
On 4 November 2014, Christians Shahzad Masih and his pregnant wife Shama Bibi were attacked and then burned in a brick kiln in a village named Chak no.59 situated near Kot Radha Kishan. The illiterate couple were accused of blasphemy after Bibi burned amulets which she did not know might have contained Qur'anic verses and were killed by a local mob.[9] 59 people were indicted for the murder and on 23 November 2016, five people including a Muslim cleric were sentenced to death for the lynching and another eight jailed for two years each.[10]
References
- Tehsils & Unions in the District of Kasur - Government of Pakistan Archived 2011-08-07 at the Wayback Machine
- Location of Kot Radha Kishan - Falling Rain Genomics
- "THE EDUCATORS". www.educators.edu.pk. Retrieved 2019-06-07.
- The Learning school
- The Learning School - Community Contribution
- The Learning School - Transport system
- The Learning School - Matriculate results
- The Learning School - Fee for Sustainability
- https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2014/11/pakistani-christian-couple-brutally-killed-by-mob-for-alleged-blasphemy/
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/pakistan-death-sentence-christian-couple-shahzad-masih-shama-bibi-kiln-lynch-a7435156.html
The Learning School & College, Kot Radha Kishen (Kasur - Pakistan)