Feroze Wattwan
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فیروزوٹواں | |
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Town | |
Feroze Wattowan | |
Country | Pakistan |
Province | Punjab |
District | Sheikhupura |
Population | |
• Estimate () | 60,000 |
Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
Number of Union councils | 2 |
Feroze Wattowan فیروز وٹواں is a town in Sheikhupura District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is located at Faisalabad road about 28km from Sheikhupura city. Town occupies 11875 acres. This town has population of 84000. The neighbouring villages of Feroze Wattwan Walgan Jhanda, Ghullawattwan, Adda Maharan,Jhalar Maharan, Jhalar Bhuttian, Chuntra, Bangla Feroze, Jhalar Samandki, Makki 525 and Makki 460.
Economy
Feroze Wattwan is an industrial and agriculture town having about 35 textile and spinning mills. Including well-known Nishat Group, Sapphire Group and Ehsan Danish mill. The main occupation of people is agriculture. It is a hub of wheat and rice in district Sheikhupura, other crops include: sugarcane, vegetables especially pea,oat, corn and fodder for their cattle. Many land lords are working as rice and wheat dealer (locally called " arhti").
Education
Schools of Feroze Wattwan
- Makkah Model HiGh SchooL - MMS Feroze wattwan
- Global Garrison High School Feroze Wattwan - GGHS Feroze Wattwan
- Govt High School Feroze Wattwan for Boys and Girls
- Sapphire School of learning
- The Citizen Foundation School
- Alnoor Model School
- Pakistan Model School
- Al Suffah model School
- Dar-e-Arqam
- Misali Science Public School
- Razia Ideal School
- Shahbaz cadet School
- Shahbaz Grammar School
- Shaheen Model School
- Al-Mustafa Model School
- Jinnah Model School
- Ghazali Public school
- Jinnah Computer Science Academy
- Muslim Shaheen School System
Colleges
- Standard Polytechnic institute
- Makkah Model College for Girls
- Al-Harmeen girls College
Hospital
Health facilities are increasing in this town day by day. One public sector dispensary is located in the west of Feroze Wattowan while three private sector hospitals named as Rai Zulqarnain Memorial Hospital , Sadiq Memorial Hospital and Rasheed Hospital are there.
Industry:Booms and B
oons
Ferozewattowan is area sorrounded by industries of different types.It is quite common for people to work in factories to earn their livelihoods. This sector is providing employment to native people as well people from far off areas.The workers are getting higher wages in factories than from other local labour.But the main damge these facotries are doing in the form of health issues.these issues are not only faced by workers but the sorrounding population of villages is also affecting from health issue.the health issue is incrasing number of hepatitis patients in labour as wsll as in sorroundin villages.