چکوال ولیج پلیٹ فارم · Chakwal Village Platform

This is Chapar.

Chapar is a village in District Chakwal, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It lies on the Potohar plateau, a dry land cut by ravines, where farming depends on rain and families grow wheat and groundnut. The Salt Range rises to the south.

The village sits close to Choa Saidan Shah, and the Katas Raj temples and the Malot temple are each about 3 km away, while Dandot in the Salt Range is about 9 km off in a straight line. Like many families in this region, many households in Chapar have members serving in the army or working abroad, and those who have gone far from home still carry the village with them.

The full story of Chapar, its people, and its days is still to be told, and this page invites the villagers and their families to tell it in their own words.

یہ گاؤں چوا سیدن شاہ کے قریب ہے، اور کٹاس راج کے مندر اور ملوٹ کا مندر تقریباً تین تین کلومیٹر کے فاصلے پر ہیں۔ اس علاقے کے بہت سے گھرانوں کی طرح چَپڑ کے کئی افراد فوج میں ہیں یا بیرونِ ملک کام کرتے ہیں۔ چَپڑ کی مکمل کہانی، اس کے لوگ اور اس کے دن ابھی سنائے جانے باقی ہیں، اور یہ صفحہ گاؤں کے لوگوں اور ان کے گھرانوں کو اپنی زبانی یہ کہانی سنانے کی دعوت دیتا ہے۔

Close to the Katas Raj temples

Chapar میں آپ کیا کروا سکتے ہیں

What we can do for a household in Chapar.

Every service is included in your membership. Add jobs to the basket, name the house, and pay only for what is bought. Every job comes back signed, timed and placed.

Food and groceries

سودا سلف

Groceries to the door

Rs 500 · £1.43 per delivery

سودا گھر تک

Pick the items. Bought in Chakwal city, carried to the house you name, signed for at the door.

Health

صحت

Doctor visit

Rs 1,500 · £4.29 per visit

ڈاکٹر کے پاس

We take your family member to the clinic or doctor and bring them home. Fee paid on the spot and added to the receipt.

Medicine delivered

Rs 400 · £1.14 per trip

دوائی گھر تک

Send us the prescription on WhatsApp; we buy it in Chakwal and bring it to the door.

Bills and payments

بل اور ادائیگیاں

Pay a bill

Rs 300 · £0.86 per bill

بل کی ادائیگی

Electricity, gas, water or phone. Tell us the amount; we pay it in Chakwal and photograph the receipt back to you.

Cars and travel

گاڑی اور سفر

Car to Chakwal city

Rs 2,500 · £7.14 per trip

گاڑی شہر تک

A car from the village to Chakwal city and back, for a hospital, a bank or the bazaar.

Car to Islamabad airport

Rs 9,000 · £25.71 per trip

گاڑی ایئرپورٹ تک

Pick-up from the village door to Islamabad International, or the other way.

Cash in hand

نقد رقم

Cash handed over

Rs 500 · £1.43 per hand-over

نقد رقم

A monthly allowance, or a one-off, handed to the person you name with a signature, time and place.

Home and family

گھر اور خاندان

Home help

Rs 1,200 · £3.43 per visit

گھریلو مدد

A woman from the village team visits: shopping together, a hospital companion, help with the children or the house.

Done by the woman on the village team

Repair or tradesman

Quoted first

مرمت

Electrician, plumber, mason, roof. Tell us the job; we send someone and quote before anything is spent.

Anything else

کچھ اور

Something else