Chatroo/Passerkoot

Location

Chatroo is a small village on the bank of a small river, name not known. The place is located in between the two hills. It is a steep valley which opens from three sides. One way goes to Chingam one goes to Kishtwar and one goes to Passerkoot. This route is very famous right from the beginning.The way was the old and main route for the people of the entire region to enter Kashmir Valley. In the olden times the small mobile traders used to come to the Kishtwar region from Kashmir through this route.this is a hilly track which goes up and down in to purely Himalayan tertian.The people also relied on this route for selling their agriculture products and animals.On this track a famous village named Passerkoot comes, the village is famous for its natural resources like Apple,wallnut, Rajmah and Guchis. Pt Mann Chand Sharma was a famous personality of the Village, who worked a lot locally against social evils like Dowery, Castism, etc.

From Chatroo route one of the famous routes is connected to Kashmir is known as Sintantop route this route also good traveling of transport and now recently Govt. of India and State Govt of J&K start project of Viloo Tunnel (about 5 km long) to reduce the distance of about 60 km from Kashmir to Kishtwar. presently the distance from LalChowk Kashmir to Kishtwar is only 202 km, so after completion of this tunnel the distance is just near about 140 km.The spot of Sintantop is very good for tourist and one of the famous spot is AlloForm. one the best spot is Fammer by foot travelling near about 10 km from Sintantop the famous dish is there is trout fish. The enjoy is then that when you visit on that spots.