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PLACES
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SALEKASA
Salekasa, a village of 517 souls in 1971 in Gondia tahsil about 73 miles distant from Bhandara, has a railway station on the Nagpur-Howrah trunk route. The forests in the vicinity yield timber of a good quality. Medical institutions of the village include a maternity home with an attached family planning centre, a primary health centre and an Ayurvedic dispensary. Advantage of the medical aid rendered is taken of by the people of the surrounding villages also. Besides the usual educational facilities, Salekasa has a balaka mandir, and a police station. It is the headquarters of a Development Block. The village was the residence of the Salekasa zamindar. " This estate is subordinate to the Bijli zamindari. It lies in the east of the Tirora tahsil between Bijli and Darekasa. The area is 24 square miles but the two villages of Managarh and Kolarbhath, comprising more than half of the zamindari, have been sold outright and have now been detached from it. A large part of the zamindari is forest and it contains some good timber. The family are Gonds, to whom the estate is said to have been given by one of the Bijli zamindars to be brought under cultivation [Bhandara District Gazetteer, 1908 ed. p. 229.]".
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