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PLACES
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KARJAT
Karjat (T. Karjat: 18°50' N, 73° 15' E; p. 3,744; RS.) the head-quarters of the Karjat taluka is a railway station, sixty-two miles east of Bombay and about five miles south of Matheran. Karjat was a mere village before the opening of the railway; since then the population has greatly increased. It stands on the south bank of the Ulhas river, which, running down the Konkan
Darvaja ravine, enters the plain below Rajmaci fort.
The offices of the Mamlatdar, the Police Sub-Inspector, the Range Forest Officer, are located in the new buildings constructed in 1905 on the top of a hillock about half a mile to the west of the town. The Public Works Department's Inspection Bungalow lies on the same hillock. Beyond the railway line is a Rice Research Station on the Karjat-Panvel Road. Besides there is the Civil Court and a primary health centre. There is also an umbrella factory and a milk centre. The town surrounded by a rice-growing area, has four rice mills. The timber from the surrounding hill sides is gathered and sawn at Karjat before it is sent outside. The post office, the village panchayat office, the public library and the temple of Kapalesvar are centrally situated in the town. The town has a high school and primary schools for boys and girls. There is a village panchayat at Karjat which has provided for the town piped water-supply, electricity and well-constructed roads.
The town lying equidistant from Poona and Bombay has developed fast as a township on account of the railway-station and the Rice Research Station and serves as a feeding centre to almost all villages of the taluka.
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