Nalwar Fair, Boon or Bane for Cattle

Fair and festival is life and light of the nation. These fairs have a very special reason to celebrate and hides a story behind them. Nalwar fair is also one of them. The fair is celebrated in different places at the time for  harvesting of crops. Bilaspur, Sundernagar, Sandhole etc are few of the famous places to celebrate the occasion. It is the time when crops are cultivated and harvested in the month of April and May. Oxen plays a crucial role in farming specially in hilly areas where cultivation without them is equal to impossible.

 The fair is specially meant for the cattle to be brought and sold. Farmers from different parts of the state come over there with their oxen, sold their own and have a new pair according to their will and need. Before purchasing they try several methods like the physic and the alertness of the animal.

Inauguration of Sandhole Nalwar Fair, 2016 

By the passage of the time, everything has now been changed. Oxen has now been replaced by the science and technology in the form of machines like tractors, threshing machines, harrows etc. Farmers who have been feeding millions, at present have become and idle and living in lurch. Of course science has brought wonder in our life, in fact the inventions of science has given a great relief to the farmer. They now have easy mean of ploughing their fields, growing good harvests and ripping them through the invented fertilizers and machines and yielding more and more.The grievances of the farmer are the unaffordable roles of tractors, thrashers and some times non available of good seeds and fertilizers in the stores. They feel helpless before the adamancy of the owner of the tractor for their own made sale.

Though the land of Sandhole is enough fertile still the farmers are showing their disinterest towards the agriculture due to lack of irrigation. Many land can be seen uncultivated at different places and oxen like once we were proud to have become stray and shulterless. Now the farmers from far places come and leave their oxen in the fair for dying of thirst and hunger. Such incidence are giving the reason why Nalwar fair is loosing its familiarity in surroundings and slowly and shortly leading to be closed.

People who leave their animals for dying are not only culprit of the constitution but also the culprit of God. The problem of stray animals are in the notice of government and government is paying attention to it by opening cowshed in different places. Of course the government has taken the initiative but a proper implementation is still required.     

"Sandhole" Girl Clinched Miss India Continent Title

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success - Swami Sivananda

Shivani Thakur- Miss India Continental 2016(1st Runner Up)

One big win of yours will lead you to the height of greatness. A small village girl belongs to Sandhole has proved her passion, hard work and determination towards the goal. Since centuries, girls has been dominated in the society. Specially in Sandhole, girls after their intermediate forcefully pressurized for their marriage and this has become a tradition culture through out. We do not want to come out from this aura. Many people still makes the inferiority complex to the women and cut their wings of their dream.

Enthusiastic girl named Shivani Thakur from Village Sohar, District Mandi of Himachal Pradesh has today not only raised the name of the area but also stood for the nation. She has participated in Miss India Continent 2016 and clinched first runner up position. This is all about her hard work. She was also in Miss Himachal contest but who knows she had the bigger dream. She has also enrolled herself in an event held at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi for giving tribute to the Army men who laid their life at Pathankot. She was the frontier leader their and we all are proud to her. After her great success she has given all her credit to her parents who stood by her always. Mr Anil Bhanwal father of Miss India runner up is now a proud man and has set an example to those who dominate their female child in the society.

            

We all are proud to the daughter of Sandhole and congrats her on the success. We wish her to spark always like the star and keep lightning on others. This great win has set up an inspiration to the other women as well. This is just the beginning and I wish many more to come.      

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