Lakhne Wala (also Lakhnanwala and Lākhnewāla) is a village of

Mandi Bahauddin District Mandi Bahauddin, also spelled Mandi Baha ud Din, ( Punjabi and ur, ) is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan.In the north-central area of the province. It is bordered on the northwest by the Jhelum River, on the southeast by the Chen ...

Punjab, Pakistan Punjab (; , ) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in central-eastern region of the country, Punjab is the second-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the largest province by population. It shares land borders with the ...

,Lakhnewala
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River Jhelum A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of wate ...

and

River Chenab The Chenab River () is a major river that flows in India and Pakistan, and is one of the 5 major rivers of the Punjab region. It is formed by the union of two headwaters, Chandra and Bhaga, which rise in the upper Himalayas in the Lahaul regi ...

. The total area of the village is approximately 119,790,000 sq ft (approx. 11.13 km²) or 2750 acres. It is about 8 km east of the city of

Mandi Bahauddin Mandi Bahauddin (Urdu and pa, ) is a city in northern Punjab, Pakistan. It is also the capital of Mandi Bahauddin District. It is the 41st largest city of Pakistan by population according to the 2017 census. It has exellent agricultural land ...

. North are Kot Baloch, Rasul and the Government College of Technology, Rasul. It sits at 222 meters (728 feet) in average elevation.

Climate

The summer begins in April; the hottest months are May, June and July with peak temperatures about 45 °C at noon. Winter begins in October; the coldest months are December through February, with

frost Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor in an above-freezing atmosphere coming in contact with a solid surface whose temperature is below freezing, and resulting in a phase change from water vapor (a gas) ...

in the January and February. Winter days are generally pleasant with maximum and minimum temperatures about 21.5 °C and 5.1 °C, respectively. Annual average rainfall is about 435 mm.

Population

There are approximately 1400 houses in village with a total of about 7500 people. The entire population of the village is

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who may attend 6

mosque A mosque (; from ar, مَسْجِد, masjid, ; literally "place of ritual prostration"), also called masjid, is a place of prayer for Muslims. Mosques are usually covered buildings, but can be any place where prayers ( sujud) are performed, ...

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madrasah Madrasa (, also , ; Arabic: مدرسة , pl. , ) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary instruction or higher learning. The word is variously transliterated '' ...

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women A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or Adolescence, adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female hum ...

There are 2100 registered voters, almost 45% of whom are women.

Economics

The majority of the people earn their livelihood through

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

on the fertile land, using the peter engine method for

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. The most important crops are

wheat Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus ''Triticum'' ; the most widely grown is common wheat (''T. aestivum''). The archaeologi ...

(gandam),

rice Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima ''Oryza glaberrima'', commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown i ...

(chawal),

sugarcane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, Perennial plant, perennial grass (in the genus ''Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar Sugar industry, production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with ...

(kamad)

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and

cotton Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus ''Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor perce ...

which together account for more than 75% of the value of total crop output. There are several bhathas (

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plants) poultry farms and

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in the village.

Infrastructure

It is common in most homes to have

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television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

s and

radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...

s. Almost 80% homes in the village also possess

computer A computer is a machine that can be programmed to Execution (computing), carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation) automatically. Modern digital electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as C ...

s with

internet The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...

access. Frustrated by high electric bills and the inconvenience of load sharing, residents of Lakhnewala decided not to pay their electric bills while realizing that this could result in the disconnection of their electrical service. There is

hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...

in the village, a doctor and health care worker. The village has a Government Boys Primary School, a Government Girls High School, and Three private schools. Almost every child of the village goes to school.

References

External links

Lakhnewala map

Lakhnewala, Monthly temperature averages
{{Mandi Bahauddin District Villages in Mandi Bahauddin District