Toba Tek Singh

The town and district is named after a Sikh religious figure Tek Singh. Legend has it that Mr. Singh a kind heart 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.

British Raj
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Toba Tek Singh was developed by the British toward the end of the 18th Century when a canal system was built. People from all over the Punjab (currently Indian and Pakistani Punjab) moved there as farmlands were allotted to them. Most of the people who migrated there belonged to Lahore, Jalandhar, Sadiqabad districts.

After Independence
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During 1970's, when many Pakistani cities were renamed to change names given after British Rulers to their original or native names or more acceptable names to local population like Montgomery was renamed to its old original name Sahiwal, Toba Tek Singh remained one of the very few cities to maintain it's original name mainly because of reputation of Tek Singh.

In 1982 Toba Tek Singh was separated from Faisalabad District and became a district.

Area and population
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Toba Tek Singh is located in central Punjab and occupies 3252 square kilometers and is made up of large areas of lowlands that flood frequently during the rainy season; the floods originate from the Ravi River that runs along the southern and southeastern borders. The Pre-partition T.T.Singh had a size-able Sikh population which migrated to Indian Punjab in 1947.

A census carried out in 1998 reported a population of 1,621,593 (mostly Muslim, some Christians) of which 18.43% were urban

Mr. Faisal Nouman
Weather TTS. www.foreca.com/Pakistan/Toba_Tek_Singh