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Kot Radha Kishan
Kot Radha Kishan
Coordinates: 31.10°N 74.5°E
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab
Elevation	193 m (633 ft)
Time zone	PST (UTC+5)
Number of Union councils	2

The population of Kot Radha Kishan is about 75,000, with an annual growth rate of 2.7%, household size 7.4 and literacy rate is about 58%. The population of the surrounding villages of Kot Radha Kishan is more than 80,000 with a literacy rate of about 35%. These surrounding villages are totally depending on Kot Radha Kishan in sense of Railway Station, Bus Stand, Post Office, Banks, Colleges, Girls High Schools, sub-division courts, crops and vegetable market and to buy the house hold items for their daily use.Kot Radha Kishan is a town of Kasur District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The town is administratively subdivided into two Union councils.^[1] It was formerly part ofKasur Tehsil and now it has been rewarded with the status of tehsil of district kasur due to the basic necessities of the current time and the mounting population of the area .It is located at 31°10'21N 74°5'59E with an altitude of 193 metres 

The educated people of Kot Radha Kishan as well as surrounding villages are mostly depending on government as well as private jobs. Illiterate people of the town are working as workers in nearly industrial zone of Raiwind as well as in Lahore and illiterate from villages are depending on agriculture. Small numbers of people have power looms industries also in their homes. Politically it is divided in different parties and most of them are Pakistan People Party, Pakistan Muslim League (N), Pakistan Muslim League (Q), Jamat-e-Islami, Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf.

Health Facilities: Although the population of Kot Radha Kishan is around 100,000, it lacks proper basic healthcare facilities. There is a public hospital "Rural Health Centre" that has two medical officers, a dental technician and around six paramedics. This hospital was granted the status of "Tehsil Head-quarter Hospital by the Punjab Government but no up-gradation of persisting facilities has been taken place. Various small private hospitals are also set up in this town but these hospitals also lack qualified nursing and paramedical staff. Noor Hospital is one of the biggest in private sector hospitals with around 30 beds. A dozen of consultants with different specialities also visit this hospital from Lahore.

Education

In the public sector, there are two separate high schools for boys and girls. There are two degree colleges, one for boys and the other one for girls. These colleges provide education for intermediate and degree levels. Recently, a modern library has been built in the degree college for girls.

The Learning School

The Learning School Campus

In February 2002, a group of citizens established Kot Radha Kishan Development Trust (KDT) that was assigned the responsibility to provide high quality education in area which were yet to experience modern civic and social facilities. The first project of KDT was THE LEARNING SCHOOL which is currently fully functional. The Learning School has been called a major contribution from the civil society of Pakistan. The local community has contributed more than 20 million Pak Rupees for its establishment. The school's academic block is fully equipped with science labs, up to date computer labs and libraries. There are about sixty two staff members employed and more than eleven hundred students from poor and middle class families of the remote villages and quasi-urban settlements studying on a not-for-profit basis.