Kot Radha Kishan is a city and

Tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...

headquarters of Kot Radha Kishan Tehsil in

Kasur District Kasur District ( Punjabi, ), is a district located in Lahore Division of Punjab, Pakistan. It came into existence on 1 July 1976; prior to its creation, the area comprised two tehsils ( Kasur Tehsil and Chunian Tehsil) of Lahore District. Acc ...

in the

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province of

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. The city is administratively subdivided into four Union councils. It was formerly part of

Kasur Tehsil Kasur (), is an administrative subdivision (tehsil) of Kasur District in the Punjab province of Pakistan.tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a Zila (country subdivision), district including the designated populated place that ser ...

of Kasur district due to the growing population of the area. It is located at 31°10'21N 74°5'59E at an altitude of 193 metres. Kot Radha Kishan is also called 'City of Containers and Leather'.

Demographics

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

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as well as in

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. Others from villages depend on agriculture. Small numbers of people have power loom industries in their homes. Prem Nagar Railway Station, where large railway dry ports by the name of DP World Lahore and MICT are operational, are situated in between Raiwand and Kot Radha Kishan in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.

Education

The public sector has three 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 running in the city. A High School near the village of Pemar Utar has been serving the people for many decades. There are three-degree colleges, two for boys and the other for girls. These colleges provide education for intermediate and degree levels. Recently, a modern library has been built in the degree college for girls.
The Learning School
Kot Radha Kishan, was established by the concerned citizens in 2002 under Kot Radha Kishan Development Trust (Regd) and is providing quality education on a not-for-profit basis. Its Alumni are spread across the world, and some of them are in high-ranking positions now. Branches of various school chains like 'The Educators', 'Dar-e-Arqam are also spreading the light of education in the cityKot Radha Kishan is the smallest tehsil of

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but the 2nd highest literacy rate after

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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

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after Bibi burned amulets which she did not know might have contained Qur'anic verses and were killed by a local mob. 59 people were indicted for the murder and on 23 November 2016, five people including a Muslim cleric were sentenced to death for the

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and another eight jailed for two years each.

References

{{Neighbourhoods of Kasur Kasur District