Bazurgwal is a village and Union Council of

Gujrat District Gujrat ( Punjabi and ur, ), is a district of Punjab Province in Pakistan. It is bounded on the northeast by Mirpur, on the northwest by the River Jhelum, which separates it from Jhelum District, on the east and southeast by the Chenab Ri ...

, in the Punjab province of

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. It is located at 32° 46' 43" N 74° 4' 9" ELocation of Bazurgwal - Falling Rain Genomics
/ref> and is situated on the Bhimber Road, 30 km from Gujrat and 30 km from Bhimber.

Daulat Nagar Daulat Nagar (دولت نگر) is a town and Union councils of Pakistan, union council in Gujrat Tehsil & Gujrat District, Punjab province Pakistan. It's situated nearby to the villages Ghari Bhau, Doga Sharif , Bazurgwal and Shahjahanian. Daulat ...

and Banian are neighbouring villages. Administratively, Bazurgwal is a part of Sabour Union Council of

Kharian Tehsil Kharian Tehsil (Punjabi and ur, ) is a tehsil located in Gujrat District, Punjab, Pakistan. The land lies between the rivers of Chenab and Jhelum and in the North the foothills of the mountains of Kashmir. Village and towns of Tehsil Kharian ...

. Before the Partition of 1947 of Punjab, Bazurgwal had a large Sikh population, and had three Sikh gurdwaras.

Economy

Until the late 1970s,

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...

and

Army An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

were the only employment. Small land holdings and no proper source of irrigation have forced people to look for alternatives. Until the mid 1990s, the

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...

was the favourite destination for workers, but now people from Bazurgwal are working and living in America and Europe.

Infrastructure

Bazurgwal has government boys and girls primary and high schools. It has also a very famous Jinnah School owned by Ch. Bashir Ahmad retired head master since 1990. Electricity came in 1966 and fixed line telephone in 1995. Although there is no specific marketplace, there are many shops in Bazurgwal. Streets are paved and sewerage channels are open but lined.

Geography

Geographically Bazurgwal is situated in a plain. There is a cemetery located near the Banian village border. The "Nala Bhandar" flows on the eastern side of the village. Bhimber Road bisects the village into two halves.

References

External links

A Web Page dedicated to Sabour.
* {{Kharian-Union-Councils Union councils of Gujrat District