Roads in India

Roads in India in 1885, runs across the north-east of the District, passing through Sirsa town. There are no masonry roads in the District, except for a mile or two in and near Sirsa and Fazilka towns. A good wide unmetalled road enters the District at Narel from Hissar, and runs by Sirsa, Dabwali, and Fazilka to Muazzam on the Sutlej, where there is a ferry, and so on to Okara, a station on the Sind, Punjab, and Delhi Railway in Montgomery District. Another broad road runs to the west of this, nearly the whole length of the District from Sirsa via Abohar to F'azilka, and is much used by Povindah traders from the frontier, who annually pass through the District in the cold weather, with their long strings of camels laden with merchandise from Kabul and Kandahar, on their way to Delhi and the North-Western Provinces. Other roads run from Sirsa north-east to Rori, south-east to Darba, south to Jamal, and west to Ellenabad ; from Malaut south-west to Abohar and Usman Khera, and north to Muktsar ; from Fazilka north- east towards Firozpur, and south-west towards Bahawalpur. Except during the rainy seas0on, there are no serious obstacles to traffic, though in the dry hot weather great difficulty is sometimes experienced from want of water. Total length of District roads (1884-85), 500 miles; railways, 35 miles; navigable rivers, 20 miles. "The imperial gazetteer of India"