What is Bhabar?

Answer: Bhabar, sometimes also called Bhabhar, are the plains located in Uttarakhand, India. It is located in the southern region of the Shivalik range of hills and lower Himalayas. Bhabar is a thin band that stretches about 8–16 kilometers. It is made up of tiny stones that are carried down from the highlands by rivers.

Bhabar was also one of the Nainital district’s four divisions in 1901. It covered 1,279 square miles and had 4 cities and 511 villages, with a total population of 93,445 in 1901. (3,310 sq. km). It corresponds to Haldwani’s present subdivision.

The name Bhabar comes from the local grass, Eulaliopsis binata, which in Hindi is called Bhabhar and is used to make paper and rope.

These plains are slightly sloping and are located below the Shivalik hills.

The most distinguishing feature of Bhabar is its porosity. It is caused by a large amount of rock debris and pebbles being deposited across the alluvial fans.

The alluvial apron of sediments is swept down from the Shivalik along with the Indo-Gangetic Plains northern boundary.

The Bhabar belt is narrow in the east and wide in the western and north-western mountainous regions.

The Terai below, where coarse alluvium gives place to less penetrable silt and clay, has a deep subsurface water level that rises to the surface.

Bhabar, which lies at the crossroads of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and the Himalayas, is home to nearly all of Uttarakhand’s major trade and business centers. It is also a productive location with high yields per unit area due to the top-soil restoration every monsoon.

Exploratory drilling has revealed that the Bhabar zone possesses ample supplies of good-quality water from settled ground-water bodies and the intense water-table aquifer.