When Salt Production started in Sambhar Lake?? It is about the method of making salt from the water of the Sambhar Lake with its brief history.
The empire of the kings of the Chauhan dynasty was spread from Ajmer to Delhi and Sambhar was its capital. Shakambhari Mata, who was enthroned in the middle of the lake, was their Kuldevi.
After the Chauhan dynasty, the Rathore dynasty of Jodhpur captured it. During the time of Sawai Jai Singh of Jaipur, a war took place between the Jaipur and Jodhpur princely states for the right over this lake.
According to the agreement reached in the war, this lake was jointly captured by the Jaipur and Jodhpur princely states, that is, half of the lake was considered to be the right of Jaipur and the other half of Jodhpur.
Even today, the separate markets of Jaipur and Jodhpur present in Sambhar bear silent testimony to this joint possession. The British took this lake under their control after coming to India.
They first started making salt through the Sambhar Salt Limited Company by laying a railway line in the lake. Today, 12 percent of India's total salt is produced in Sambhar Lake.
Sambhar Salt Lake is the country's largest saltwater lake from which more than 2,10,000 tons of salt is produced every year. The salt produced in Sambhar is made completely naturally.
To make salt in Sambhar Lake, salty water is made saline up to 25 degrees after rotating it in several Kantasar. After this, it is poured into Kyaris made in the ground and frozen.
To take the salt produced from these Kyaris to the storage area, it is carried in a train made of wood and iron on meter gauge and narrow-gauge tracks in the middle of the lake.
To take the salt to the storage area, the British laid these tracks in 1876 AD. Today, about 45 kilometers of meter gauge and 25 kilometers of narrow-gauge tracks are present in Sambhar Lake.
Author
Ramesh Sharma {M Pharm, MSc (Computer Science), PGDCA, MA (History), CHMS}
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