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Gojra (Punjabi: گوجرا; Urdu: گوجرہ), is the administrative capital of Gojra Tehsil and a city in the Toba Tek Singh District in Punjab province of Pakistan. Gojra is 50 kilometres (31 mi) from Faisalabad , 170 kilometres (110 mi) from Lahore and 20 miles (32 km) north of Toba Tek Singh . [ 3 ]
Gojra (Urdu: تحصیل گوجرہ, Punjabi: تحصیل گوجرا) is a tehsil in Toba Tek Singh District, Punjab, Pakistan. The tehsil covers an area of 1,115 km 2 , and is administratively subdivided into 24 Union Councils , six of which form the tehsil capital Gojra .
Gojra is located on Sargodha-Gujrat road. It is about 26 km from Mandi Bahauddin (a drive of about 28 minutes) and about 22 kilometers from Malakwal (a drive of about 38 minutes). M-2 motorway Salam Interchange is 33 km from here.
The city and district is named after a Sikh religious figure Tek Singh.Legend has it that Singh, a kind-hearted man, served water and provided shelter to the worn out and thirsty travelers passing by a small pond ("toba" in Punjabi) which eventually was called Toba Tek Singh, and the surrounding settlement acquired the same name.
The town serves as an educational and trading center. It has a Union Council (one of two in Gojra Tehsil) overseen by Chairman Mian Shamshad-ul-Haq, as well as 4 wards. It was declared a sub-tehsil of Gojra (the tehsil of Toba Tek Singh) by the government. The offices of the Assistant Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner are due to be ...
The original Toba Tek Singh Tehsil was formed in 1900, then part of Jhang District, with Toba Tek Singh as its capital. In 1930, it became a tehsil subdivision. In 1982, it became a district, the current Toba Tek Singh Tehsil is a subdivision of this district.
'Chak 288 JB' (Jaimal Singh) and Chak 285 JB are villages of Toba Tek Singh District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Their postal code is 36101.
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