Fazilka

Fazilka is a town and a civil chamber in Punjab, India. In 2011, it was made the home office of the recently made Fazilka region. The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline TAPI gas pipeline venture beginning in Turkmenistan will have its last station in Fazilka. Fazilka, in the same way as other towns on the Indo-Pakistani fringe, has endured challenges going back to the Partition of India in 1947.

The Radcliffe Line, the fringe prescribed by withdrawing British pioneer specialists, isolates characteristic assets, houses, and individuals. The Satluj River, which is a typical wellspring of water, is an outskirt between the two nations. Prior to segment, half of Fazilka's populace was Muslim. Every one of them cleared out India for Pakistan in 1947. A large portion of the towns around Fazilka are overwhelmed by Muslim families, fundamentally the Bodla, Watto, Sahoo Rajpoot, Kalya Rajpoot and Chistis factions.

Numerous individuals from Fazilka pay a yearly visit to Katasraj — a Hindu blessed city in Pakistan — for the most part in August. Punjabi is most broadly talked dialect of Fazilka. Bagri is talked by a couple of individuals. Fazilka is known for a style of jhumar move proclaimed by Baba Pokhar Singh 1916– 2002. Pokhar Singh's family had moved from the Montgomery District of Western Punjab, and they professed to speak to the Ravi style of jhumar. In any case, Fazilka had its very own style of jhumar which was alluded to as the Satluj style.