Model Town Society (Punjabi, Urdu: ماڈل ٹاون) is a gated neighbourhood in Gulberg township of Lahore in Punjab, Pakistan.

The meeting approved Diwan Khem Chand's proposed housing scheme based on cooperative principles in the suburbs of Lahore to solve housing problems and to provide improved sanitary and better living facilities for the residents, and thus the government was requested to provide a 2000-acre (4 km²) plot of land.

The residents of Model Town, who owned their spacious houses, were retired judges, rich businessmen, traders, and upmarket store-owners.

Many high court judges, doctors, and engineers had also moved to Model Town from the city.

Included among the residents of this best laid-out residential estate of Lahore were college professors and officers of the civil service.

The communist leader Baba Pyare Lal "BPL" Bedi, who had studied at British and German universities, lived here.

As of March 2015, Saifur Rehman was elected president of the Model Town Society, marking his second term in office.

The principle aims of the Society were: On 1 April 1941, the Government of the Punjab transferred 1,963 acres (7.9 km²) situated in Rakh, Kot Lakhpat Tehsil, District, Lahore and the transfer deed was registered with the Sub-Registrar, Lahore, on 25 April 1941.

[5] The Society was declared evacuee property after the Indo-Pak partition in 1947, as about 1100 out of 1300 members emigrated to India.

please provide the copy of MLO No.856 dated 30-3-1982 After a lapse of twenty years, the Supreme Court of Pakistan restored the society in July 2002.

Computerization of the office records was undertaken and more technical staff and professionals were recruited to improve efficiency.

Blocks L, M, N, P, Q, R and S are on the outskirts of Model Town and are administered by Lahore Development Authority (LDA).

Each block has its own market, playground, mosque, triangular parks, etc., which is a rare phenomenon as compared to other housing schemes.

[7] Following the economic liberalization of Pakistan in the post-9/11 era, Model Town has benefited from the remarkable increment of social elites in Lahore.

Not too long ago, Model Town was regarded as the establishment's residential dead zone.

An initiative to refurbish the image of Model Town to its former glory in colonial days was launched in the early 1980s.

Electric supply lines were relaid, street lights & sewage system installed, roads improved, and central Model Town park was developed per the original plan from the 1920s.

Further modernization, renovation of gardens and the influx of large numbers of upper and upper-middle class Lahoris helped redefine the rundown development's image and status.

Other notable personalities who have lived in Model Town include the writer, intellectual and spiritualist Ashfaq Ahmed; left-wing intellectual and revolutionary poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz; intellectual and dramatist Naeem Tahir and his wife, broadcaster Yasmeen Tahir; legendary writer and first woman pilot Hijab Imtiaz Ali; Pakistani poet who wrote the lyrics for the national anthem of Pakistan, Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jullundhri; secular journalist, syndicated columnist and political analyst Hassan Nisar; Pakistani educationist, entrepreneur and former Mayor (Nazim) of Lahore Mian Amer Mahmood; singer par excellence Malika Pukhraj; Pakistani musician and Qawwali singer, considered one of the greatest singers ever recorded, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; Urdu satirical and humor writer Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi; and playwright, actor and professor Shoaib Hashmi, along with his wife, the artist, cultural writer, painter and eldest daughter of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Salima Hashmi.

Human Development Forum [www.hdfpakistan.org], a forum of intellectuals of Model Town, including Dr. Ahmad Saeed, Dr. Akhtar Jafri, Qazi Javed, Prof. Imtiaz Ahmad, Prof. Tanvir Sadiq and others, arranges lectures every Sunday morning in this park near the canteen on any topic related to public life.

A large number of morning walkers attend these lectures, which is a tradition that has continued for many years without fail, regardless of the weather.

Mayor Lahore, Mian Amir Mehmood gave away the prizes to the residents and staff in 2008 and 2009.

The beauty of Model Town is that every block has its own small market for grocers and bakers.

[11][12] Model Town society ensured security for its residents by building barriers at each exit except the four main entrances.