District Profile

Important details about District Bhakkar are tabulated below:

Total Area   8,153 km2
Tehsils         04
Tehsil Councils   04
Municipal Committees   04
Live Stocks   1,959,808*
Major Occupations   Farming, Civil, Armed Services, Overseas
Literacy    55%

Land Statistics

The land statistics for the district taken from Punjab Development Statistics 2013:
Type   Area (In Thousand Hectares)
Cultivated Area      813
Uncultivated Area      52
Forest      26
Culturable Waste      19
Not Available for Cultivation      33

Population

Statistics taken from 6th Population & Housing Census 2017 (As on Jan 03, 2018)

Male   9,37,778
Female   8,87,581
Transgender   70
Total   18,25,429

Educational Institutions

Universities 

There is only one University in the close vicinity of the district named University of Sargodha.

Colleges

  Boys / Girls Girls Commerce Total
Bhakkar 02 03 01 06
Darya Khan 02 02 01 05
Mankera 01 01 01 03
Kallur Kot 02 02 01 05
Total 07 08 04 19

Schools

Tehsil Higher Secondary Secondary Elementary Primary
  Boys / Girls Boys / Girls Boys / Girls Boys / Girls
Bhakkar 02 / 03 26 / 19 30 / 47 134 / 203
Darya Khan -- / -- 12 / 07 20 / 21 106 / 116
Kallur Kot 01 / 02 20 / 10 23 / 27 79 / 111
Mankera 03 / -- 14 / 08 23 / 13 109 / 69
Sub Total 06 / 05 75 / 44 96 / 108 428 / 499
Grand Total 11 119 204 927

Electoral Constituencies

National   02 (NA -97 & NA-98)
Provincial   04 (PP-89, PP-90, PP-91 & PP-92)

Police Stations

Police Stations   11
Police Check Post   03
Riverine Post   03
Police Post   07
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Hospitals

DHQ Hospitals   01
THQ Hospitals         03
RHCs     05
BHUs           40
Government Rural Dispensaries      19
Rural Dispensaries     09
MCH Centers   02
Sub Health Centers   13
Total   92

Civil Courts

All four tehsils of Bhakkar have one civil court each.

Industries

Name Open Closed
Sugar Mill 0 01
Flour Mills 04 0
Chip Board Factories 0 02
Agriculture Implements 02 0
Rice Mills 0 01
Light engineering 0 01
Cotton Factories 0 15
Dall Mills 0 02
Ice Factory 0 24
Total 06 46