Kulgam

Kulgam (kʊlɡaːm), known as Kolgom (kɔlɨɡoːm) in Kashmiri, is a town, an administrative division and capital of the Kulgam district in the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It is located at a distance of from the summer state capital of Jammu and Kashmir, Srinagar. The city is divided into 16 electoral wards that has a population of 23,584, of which 12,605 are males while 10,979 are females. The partial excavation of an archaeological site in a nearby village called Kutbal has yielded cultural material from the period of Kushan rule in the region. Stamped tiles, which were excavated from the site, indicated the taste and living standard of the population. "These excavations speak of high culture, civic sense, social norms and art of the people living in first century AD." Indian census, Kulgam had a population of 23,584. There were 12,605 males (53%) and 10,979 females (47%). Of the population, 3,353 (14.2%) were age 0-6: 1,787 males (53%) and 1,566 females (47%). The literacy rate for the people over six was 69.2% (males 80.7%, females 56.1%). Kulgam is located about 68 km from Srinagar and about 17 km from Anantnag. It is connected with its neighboring districts like Shopian, Pulwama, Anantnag, Ramban etc. through roads besides being linked with far flung areas of the District by a dependable road network. Apart from places of spiritual interest the district also has tourist spots like the Ahrabal waterfall on Veshaw River, Amnoo Eid Gah which is a place of sight-seeing in the extreme south-west of district Kulgam, Kongwattan and Gurwattan ahead of Ahrabal, Charenbal and Nandimarg high land pastures are also places of tourist attraction apart from virgin meadows in the area from Kund to Ladigasan (ahead of Aherbal clefts). The District also has super abundance of natural water resources in the shape of various famous springs such as, Kausar Nag (ahead of Aherbal), Waseknag (Kund), Khee Nag (Khee Jogipora), qaimoh nag (qaimoh) etc.