Snow at Thumbsar Go stalls motion of shepherds : The Tribune India

Lalit Mohan

Tribune Information Service

Dharamsala, June 6

Yearly migration of Gaddi shepherds of Kangra district to higher reaches of Dhauladhar mountains in summers has been delayed. The inclement climate and latest snow in bigger reaches of Dhauladhar mountains has stalled the annual migration of shepherds.

Thumbsar Go is positioned at a top of about 16,000 ft in Dhauladhar mountain ranges which shepherds move to access the Bara Bhangal valley throughout their yearly migration route.

Pawana, a shepherd from Bara Bhangal region, explained that about 300 teams of shepherds have been tenting in Bir Billing location to cross around to Bara Bhangal valley on their annual migration route. She claimed that Thumbsar Go was nonetheless closed due to weighty snow in the region in the last several days.

Items were finding challenging for shepherds as the grazing grounds for their animals are shrinking. The people today have commenced expanding vegetable crops in their lands in Bir Billing spot and they really do not allow shepherds to camp fearing that their animal may well hurt their vegetable crops, she claimed.

Pawana claimed that the shepherds have to carry ration on horses into the Bara Bhangal valley as they have to spend a pair of months there until the onset of winter.

The shepherds of Kangra employed to cross about into Bara Bhangal valley with their flock of sheep, goats and horses in the 1st 7 days of June as the snow melted in Thumbsar Go. They employed to continue to be in Bara Bhangal valley that contains uninhabited location ranging from Kangra to Kullu district until the thirty day period of August and used to start out their journey back again to decreased hill in the thirty day period of September.

However, the climatic modify in terms of delayed summers or uncommon local climate was hitting the once-a-year migration of shepherds. This yr it has been snowing in the higher reaches of Dhauladhar mountain ranges even in the thirty day period of June which was strange. Very last yr also the shepherds faced problems coming out of Bara Bhangal valley at it snowed early on Thumbsar Go.

The district administration had to deliver groups of mountaineers to create a route to carry shepherds out of Bara Bhangal valley.

Resources explained that shepherds were contemplating of sending teams to generate route on the snow-bound Thumbsar Move. They have to cross the mountain pass in the month of June even if the snow does not soften in the location naturally as there would be no fodder still left for animal flocks in Bir Billing spots if they remain in this article for a for a longer period period of time.