Loni Kalbhor

Loni Kalbhor
village
Loni Kalbhor
Loni Kalbhor

Location in Maharashtra, India

Coordinates: 18°29′00″N 74°02′00″E / 18.483333°N 74.033333°E / 18.483333; 74.033333
Country  India
State Maharashtra
District Pune
Taluka Haveli
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)

Loni Kalbhor is a village a few kilometres east of the City of Pune, Maharashtra, India.

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The village is on the Pune - Solapur Highway as well as the main Pune - Secundarabad Railway. The Mula-Mutha river passes close to the village. Given the good transport links, the electrical giant Philips once had a plant near the village. The popular Bollywood actor Raj Kapoor owned a farm close to the village. A number scenes in his movies including Bobby and Satyam Shivam Sundaram were shot in the vicinity of the village. The farm is now the location of the MIT Naval Academy and DSK Animation College.

Shaving at Weekly Market in 1987

Loni Kalbhor is on the route of Pandharpur Wari.[1] In the year 2015, one of the NGO Seva Sahayog Foundation implemented a pilot project of mobile toilets in two villages of Loni Kalbhor and Yavat, which fall on the pilgrimage route of Sant Tukaram Maharaj Palakhi.[2] Coordinates: 18°29′N 74°02′E / 18.483°N 74.033°E / 18.483; 74.033

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