Samundri Tehsil
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Samundri Tehsil تحصیل سمندری |
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| Tehsil | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Region | Punjab |
| District | Faisalabad District |
| Capital | Samundri |
| Towns | 1 |
| Union councils | ? |
| Time zone | PST (UTC+5) |
| • Summer (DST) | PDT (UTC+6) |
Samundri Tehsil (Urdu/Punjabi: تحصیل سمندری) is an administrative subdivision, tehsil, of Faisalabad District in Punjab province of Pakistan. The lands of the Tehsil Samundri are irrigated by Gugera Branch Canal and Burala branch canal.
All villages of the tehsil carry G.B. with their Chak numbers and name of village usually follows it for example Chak No. 439 GB MAHALAM,CHAK No. 48 GB Maluwaal,Chak 444 GB Poohla and Chak No. 373 Karamsar etc. Sugar cane is the major cash crop of the area. Wheat, cotton and vegetables are also grown in the fertile lands of the tehsil. Samundri is one of the old tehsils of Pakistan.
The name of Samundri comes from the presence of three (Seh=three)Hindu temples (Mandr=temple). Hence called Seh-Mandri means a small city with three temples.The name later weired and was converted to Samundri. The city still has lots of old buildings constructed in 1930s or before. Until 1904, during British rule, Samundri was headquarters of a tehsil in the district of Jhang. With the creation of Lyallpur District the Samudri Tehsil was transferred to this district. At that time having an area of 1,309 square miles (3,390 km2)., and it was reduced to 222,005 acres (898.42 km2) as a result of its bifurcation in 1994.
The population in 1906 was 266,277, at that time it contains 495 villages, including Samundri (population, 765), the headquarters. The land revenue and cesses in 1905-6 amounted to 6-700,000. The tehsil consists of a level plain sloping gently towards the Ravi and the Deg on the south, and is now wholly irrigated by the Chenab Canal, except for a few scattered plots in the Ravi lowlands which still depend on wells. The soil generally is a fine loam. The boundaries of the tehsil were somewhat modified at the time of the formation of the new District.
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