چکوال ولیج پلیٹ فارم · Chakwal Village Platform

This is Katas.

Katas is a village in District Chakwal, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It lies on the Potohar plateau, a land of dry ravines and rain-fed fields, with the Salt Range to the south.

Farming here depends on the rain, and wheat and groundnut are the crops of this plateau. The village is about 14 km from Kallar Kahar lake and the Kallar Kahar interchange on the M2 motorway, about 15 km from the Katas Raj temples, and about 17 km from Dandot in the Salt Range.

Like many families across the plateau, households in Katas have members serving in the army or working abroad. The full story of Katas, as told by its own people, is still waiting to be written, and this page is an invitation to add it.

یہاں کی کاشتکاری بارش پر منحصر ہے، اور گندم اور مونگ پھلی اس علاقے کی اہم فصلیں ہیں۔ کئی گھرانوں کے افراد فوج میں خدمات انجام دے رہے ہیں یا بیرونِ ملک کام کرتے ہیں۔ کتاس کی پوری کہانی ابھی اس کے اپنے لوگوں کی زبانی لکھی جانی باقی ہے۔

Rain-fed farming on the Potohar plateau

Wheat and groundnut fields

Families with members in the army or working abroad

Katas میں آپ کیا کروا سکتے ہیں

What we can do for a household in Katas.

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