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The world's second-largest salt deposit is 300 kilometers long and 830 kilometers wide. It contains millions of years' worth of Cambrian-era fossils. It's a large salt reservoir with 21.3 million tonnes of reserves and a height range of 2200 feet to 4990 feet.
Khewra's salt mines have been declared a geological museum. It presently generates 370,000 tonnes of salt per year, ensuring that it will have enough for the next 60 years. ICI alone receives almost 200,000 tonnes each year. After meeting the needs of the remainder of the country, it is sent to other countries, mainly India.
The Khewra Salt Mine is around 165 kilometers from Islamabad and 245 kilometers from Lahore, in the Jhelum District. Kohistan Salt is available from Begunwala (Jhelum) to Kala Bagh.
Alexander the Great discovered salt at Khyura when he arrived on the banks of the Jhelum River via Taxila about 2340 years ago today.
Raja Porus and his elephant army had been waiting for him. Both troops' sick horses were discovered licking the rocks here, revealing salt, and salt manufacturing has continued since then.
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Before the British took control of the subcontinent, the Janjua monarchs controlled the mines. They started harvesting salt from this location scientifically in 1849. Under British authority in 1872, Dr. Worth, a mining engineer, built a large surface mine that is still working today. Tourist access is confined to only one, two-kilometer-long floor, although salt is extracted from 17 floors. On March 12, 1930, under the British Raj, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi launched his famous 24-day "Salt March" against the British occupation. We marched for this salt because we own it, but the British government controls it."
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Although today's subcontinent is Pakistan and India rather than the British Raj, the importance of salt remains the same. Today, Pakistan and its people own this salt. Although there are only six decades of salt left, its export has not been prohibited, and the government has not been able to hold it under its sole control. One of our national priorities may be the depletion of our mineral resources. As a result, the Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC), an independent agency, is in charge of salt extraction, tourism development, and revenue generation.
The presence of food and industrial components such as salt, the annual arrival of about two and a half million tourists, the geological museum, and nearly two and a half thousand years of history have not persuaded our rulers to make this critical location a national institution for its improvement. Make a move.
Although PMDC has taken essential steps to improve tourism and other aspects of the city, "where is that Maulvi K?" The Government Guest House in Khyura, built in 1876, the Railway Station in 1890, St. John's Church in 1899, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in 1938, and Kot Mangal Sen School in 1946 are all historical landmarks.
Outside the mine, the British government established a workshop (blacksmith's shop) in 1916 to construct and repair salt extraction tools, which has now fallen into disrepair owing to neglect, as well as other antiquities beneath the open sky. Because of this, they are being lost.
Plans to construct a museum on the site for Rs 2 million have been in the works for a long time. The delay in receiving the grant from the government is cited as the reason. On March 2, 2013, it was solemnly inaugurated.
The government and the PMDC are most likely waiting for a century to work on this priceless heritage. Power plants, mills, and other buildings, as well as the treasures contained therein, have all been destroyed.
It is a beautiful location from a tourism standpoint. However, those that visit only once do not return owing to limited facilities. In all seasons, the temperature within the mine remains constant at 18 degrees Celsius.
It takes a long time for your eyes to acclimatize to the darkness in the semi-bright lengthy tunnel once inside the mine. The semi-dark mine cannot produce an excellent first impression on the tourist due to load shedding and the presence of the generator.
The good news is that this environment is inhospitable to other terrestrial insects. It's made even more depressing by the number of fat mice. As we progress, our confidence grows, as does our natural charm, which includes hundreds of feet deep saltwater ponds, rainbow color dispersion walls, Minar Pakistan, Assembly Hall, Sheesh Mahal, and Chaghi Hill models, Crystal Palace, and Salt Lake City. The mosque, the salt bridge, the pure sodium chloride pen, and the reflections of the roofs in the ponds all take your breath away.
Inside the mine is a cannon that was used to blow up salt in the past. Due to a lack of knowledge, and asthma hospital has been established here. However, the number of patients is almost non-existent.
The following are some of the issues:
• Power lines that are dangling.
• Nominal safety.
• The mobile service has been suspended.
• The lack of a rescue service.
• There are no fire extinguishers.
• Garbage dumped in the open and ads strewn on the walls.
• There aren't any safety precautions on the boards.
It is necessary to write, among other things. The PMDC also denies responsibility for the accident that occurred inside the mine.
The question is whether we are as committed to resolving tourist concerns as we are to resolving other national problems. Pakistan is located in a four-season zone with high mountains, desert, forest, river, sea, and everything. There are several tourist attractions, not just Khyura, but all other tourists and historical sites waiting for our attention since Pakistan's founding.
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