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PLACES
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BHILAVADI
Bhilavadi (pop. 12,184). a railway station on the Poona-Mirajroute of the South Central Railway, is a village in Tasganv taluka lying 15.28 km (nine and a half miles) south-west of the taluka headquarters, It has sprung up on the left bank of the Krsna and the road from Tasganv to Asta passes through it and is connected by a bridge with Ankalkhop on the opposite bank. A fine ghat, known as satica ghat, in memory of Smt. Ramabai Patvardhan of Tasganvkar Patvardhan family, who became.sati, has been constructed on the river bank. The descent is not more than 1.52 metres (five feet), hut the steps are so built that a coin placed on any of the steps can be seen from any position of equal height from the rest of the Might. The river bank is soft and muddy and the foundation of the ghat is said to be principally constructed of cattle horns. Bhilavadi has nine primary schools, a middle school, a high school, a library, a sub-centre of the veterinary dispensary and a police out-post. The soil found here is some of the finest of the Krsna valley yielding rich crops.
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