Jhalaar

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.

A jhalaar is a method of irrigation from an open surface of water by means of the Persian wheel. There are several kinds of jhalaar.

• Aral or bahar budhi is a small contrivance having a few large pots and worked by one bullock.
• The tangan or utangan is used when water is at a medium distance. The wheel of a tangan contain 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 where the second wheel is used.
• A jung or do charkhi is one in which there are two wheels playing into the same reservoir.
• On the rivers the jhlaars are only employed where banks are not susceptible to erosion, and consequently they are uncommon on the Chenab. They are most frequently found on the Sutlej and on the Sidhnai reach of the Ravi.
• Ponds or depressions sometimes water is lifted from 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 rarely seen now as water pumping engines have replaced them.

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