[1] Ashok Nagar is a refugee colony comprising migrant populations from Jhungh (Chinyotte), Sargodha, Bahawalpur, West Punjab, Sindh and Northwest Frontier Province.

However, people from the Indian states of Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Punjab, among others, also reside in this area.

The township is divided into four parts: Main Blocks, the MCD Colony, Double Stories, and Uggarsen Market Area.

The colony was separated in a well-planned manner into seventy blocks, each with sixteen houses surrounded by a lane on all four sides.

West Delhi MCD Property Tax Office is also situated in Ashok Nagar.