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District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. Supplementary Notes and Statistics Bijnor District

1928

12 000 Afzalgarh.—Protective works against the erosion of the river Anala which has been scouring the north face of Afzagarb town were completed in 1913 under the charge of the Irrigation department and the cost was met from a special grant of Rs. [...] The seletion of the villages was based on their size on the need for some sort of sanitation however primitive and on the wilingness of the people to work the scheme. [...] The Committee advocated five methods of dealing with the tanks :—(1) To fill some of the tanks completely ; (2) to partly fill and to partly drain them by means of two cuts called the north and south cuts into the existing drainage channels the Karula and the Pandhoi rivers ; (3) where complete drainage was not possible to drain as low as possible and then to deepen the tank in the centre thus a [...] The percentages are based on last year's figures and hence are not typical of the whole decade as the figures for the last year were lower than in many of the previous years The figures given in the appendix are for 1329 Fasli but the record cultivated area was in 1322 Fasli. [...] The co-operative company of Saharanpur distillers holds the contract for the supply of country spirit to all the three bonded warehouses in the district.
government politics public policy
Pages
69
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100009
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Alterations and Additions to Part a of the Bijnor District Gazetteer during 1911-21
1-21 unknown view
Appendix
i-xliv unknown view