Jhalaar

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Jhalaar (Punjabi: Shahmukhi جهلار or Gurmukhi ਝਲਾਰ)

English Translation : An excavation by the side of a pond, river or canal from which water is taken up for irrigation, a waterfall.

It is method of irrigation from an open surface of water by means of the Persian wheel is called Jhalaar. Jhalaar are of several kinds.

• Aral or Bahar Budhi is small contrivance having a few pots only, but of a large, it is worked by one bullock only.

• The Tangan or Utangan is used when water is at medium distance, and the wheel of tangan contains fifty to sixty pots.

• The Baghar or Double Jhlaar is used when the distance from water is very great, one wheel conveying the water to an intermediate reservoir into which the the second wheel plays.

• A Jung or Do Charkhi is one in which there are two wheels playing into the same reservoir.

This technic of irrigation is used

• On the rivers the jhlaars only employed where banks are not liable to erosion, and consequently they are uncommon on Chenab. They are most frequently found on the Sutlej and on the Sidhnai reach of Ravi.

• Ponds or Depressions sometimes water is lifted fro Ponds and depressions in the same way.

• In the canal irrigated tracts the Jhalaars are found occasionally on the canals themselves but more often on the water sources taking out of them.

Jhalaars were commonly found in most parts of Punjab like Jhang and Multan but are rare seen now as water pumping engines have replaced them.