After gap of two decades,Peach valley wears white cover

Famous for production of high quality and sweet stone fruits, Rajgarh of Sirmaur district also known as Peach Valley of Himachal Pradesh wore white covers of snow after the gap of two decades, Subdivision Magistrate Surendra Mohan informed.
 Snowfall up to ten to 15 cm(half feet) was recorded in the areas of subdivision including Habban, Bathaudhar, Banalidhar, Tharu, Deothhi Mazgaon, Matal Bakhog, Tali Bhujjal and  Koti Padhog.
Due to heavy rain and snowfall, this time there was a very pleasant situation in Rajgarh area and Farmers are happy on the outcome. 

SDM Rajgarh Surendra Mohan told on Sunday that till this afternoon power, water and communication system is running smoothly in Rajgarh.
SDM said that Farmers and Agriculture experts consider Snowfall as white manure as it not only kill harmful germs and pathogen in the plants and lands but reduce the consumption of harmful pesticides to control them.

He said that Snowfall not only help to retain the level of moisture in the soil but it help to provide good health to plants after attaining the good number of Chilling hours.
“If there would enough amount of chilling hours in the orchard Farmers did not need to spend on the pesticides and chemicals to have high yield or produce as it would give natural yield or crop with Snowfall.” local farmers Vikas Bhardwaj said.

 In the peach valley, snowfall has occurred only in the high altitude areas during last night and now it is snowing in downstream.
Peach valley also famous for production of high quality garlic as this area attributed for highest garlic production in the Asia. 
The good amount of rainfall also saved the input cost of Farmers on the irrigation and it helps to get high yield as harvest of garlic would be done after the Winter Session.
Rajgarh area supply chief amount of garlic production to southern states of India as most of Garlic produces in various gram Panchayat of Rajgarh was supplied through local APMCs to state of Tamilnadu, Maharshtra, Karnataka, Gau and Kerela.
SDM said that Snowfall on high reaches and intermittent prolonged rainfall also help to recharge water sources in the subdivision to supply regular Water during summer season after good spell .
Number of irrigation and water supply schemes get affected due to decreasing discharge of water in river and streams in the district Siramaur likely to give respite for long time. 

The vehicular movement continues as usual on all roads.  The SDM said that necessary instructions have been given to all the officers that instructions have been given to maintain all types of arrangements related to their department so that there is no problem in conducting relief and rescue operations in case of any emergency.

 Let us inform that in Rasumandar and Pajhota area, there used to be power cut every year during winters but after 33 KV sub-station in Sheelabagh, uninterrupted power supply is being available in about 15 panchayats of these areas. 
 Otherwise, due to blackout, the entire Rasumandar and Pajhota area was cut off from other areas from the point of view of communication. 
 Due to the absence of electricity for many days, people’s mobiles and other electrical appliances were switched off and people used to suffer due to lack of electricity. 
 Executive Engineer Electricity Rajgarh Narendra Thakur says that with the formation of 33 KV sub-station in Sheelabagh, where people are getting power supply normally, the employees of the Board have also breathed a sigh of relief, otherwise there will be light in these areas during winters. 
 Electricity lines were broken due to snowfall and strong wind, which took a long time to rebuild.
 Similarly, vehicular movement remained normal on all roads falling under Rajgarh division due to rain and snowfall. 
 Executive Engineer Public Works Department Rajgarh Narendra Verma says that all the roads of Rajgarh division are open.  Tight arrangements have been made in case the road is closed due to heavy rain or snowfall.  Manpower and machinery have been kept ready with the department at all times.  
Not only this, water supply is also normal in Rajgarh block. 
 Till now all the drinking water schemes are running smoothly due to rain or snowfall.