Srinagar, March 22 -- MOOL RAJ

Jammu and Kashmir is a cocooned land-mass at the northernmost extremity of the plains of Punjab which virtually touches the lower ridges of the hills and further spreads over a vast tract constituting thereby what is called the region of outer hills. Varying in heights something from 600 to 1250 above mean sea level (M.S.L) are the rugged ones, which go parallel to one another, enveloping small narrow Valleys.

Jammu region which begins from the boundaries adjoining Punjab and Himachal Pradesh across river Ravi - (Lakhanpur) stretches over the last reach of the Indo-Pak border (Poonch) in the east-west encompassing Kandi belt. From Jammu, uprising towards higher reaches of Udhampur, Kud, Patnitop on the one...