Land Resource Managemet Jhelum District A Part of the Barani Lands f the Punjab

Abstract

The area of our study, Jhelum district, shares 9.7 percent of the area, 5.9 percent of the range lands, and 4 percent of the barani lands of the Punjab. It has a substantial share of minerals of the province viz. coal, salt gypsum, and oil. Its infra structure is better than tat of other barani areas of Punjab, except Rawalpindi district on the basis of its existing active and dormant resources the district has quite a bright future and thus deserve scientific examination. In the conduct of the present enquiry, the data constitutes published works, field surveys and the unpublished records of village Patwaris. The toposheets of 1 to 50,000 and quarter inch maps of the area have also been used for detailed study. The unpublished records of Patwari were principally derived from Lal Kitab, Khasra Girdawari and the Cadestral map known as Shajra and the large-scale tehsil map with village boundaries. The field survey of 62 selected settlements from various ecological zones have been carried out on the table on the bass of 10 percent random sampling a questionnaire in Urdu (the English rendering of which is given in Appendix -1) was distributed and results tabulated from the information thus collected. Village is the smallest unit in the hierarchy of admiration. Much of data has been processed n the basis of villages/Mauza/rural settlement. This report of the Jhelum district is directed towards recording and mapping the data to find a real variation and corelations between spatial distributions of various phenomena physical and ‘cultural’. An attempt has been made to identify he problems. Suggest remedial measures and indicate directions for future development. Work on the project of ‘Land Resources Management of Jhelum District’ started in 1978. Initially following members were to perform the function of investigation: Dr. Miss M. K. Elahi Chief Investigator. Dr. Rashid A. Malik Co-Investigator. Mr. Masaud A. Mian Co-Investigator. Mr. Masaud A. Mian left for U.K. for higher studies in 1978 while Dr, Rashid frequently went abroad. In order o keep the work going prof. K. U. Kureshy and Mr. Anis A. Abbasi were later associated to work as Co-Investigator. The final cartographic work has been done by Mr. Rashid. Mr. M. Yunus has helped in the photographic reduction processes of the amps and diagrams. The final typing work has been done by Mr. Muhammad Aslam.