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State purposes for constructing rules.

Over four hundred years ago, in the parts of Himachal Pradesh had developed a local system of canal irrigation called kulhs. The water flowing in the streams was diverted into man-made channels. Canals carried the water to numerous villages down the hillside to irrigate crops.


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