Pani Ghatta: Ancestral Left-Over Gifts in Sikles.

Pani Ghatta (Water mill) are the left-over old centuries traditional, cultural ancestral gifts in Gurung communities of Sikles village located in nearby water resources of hilly region Kaski, Gandaki Province-4 of Nepal. Our ancestors had used Pani Ghatta as the agro-processing tool run with the help of down-flow of the high-speed water in streams, canals. It was used to grind maze, wheat, millet into flour. But as time passed by, people used machines for easy and saving time for other household activities. Unfortunately, nowadays we can only see a few of these old Pani Ghatta (WaterMills) in Sikles village that run only during the monsoon season when there is available water with flow of high speed. As a result, due to lack of maintenance many of these watermills got disappeared and only few of them are left in Sikles.