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Bahadurgad Fort is located on the 1.6 sq km wide
History: Bahadurgad , the major Mughal camp was said to have been built by Bahadur Khan Kokaltash, the mughal viceroy to the Deccan. It has several names including Bhadhurgad, pedgaon cha killa and Dharmaveer gad.
This historic fort is famous for two things-
Shivaji Raje had heard the news of the arrival of the two hundred trained arabian stallions at Bahadurgad He deliberately leaked the news that he was planning to attack Bahadurgad. Intially 2000 men attacked the fort and then chose to retreat with Bahadur Khan chasing with his full might. Luring the mughals away from the fort by well over 20kms, the marathas dissappeared in the thick woods. Meanwhile the remaining 7000 odd maratha contingent attacked the fort, taking away all the gold and horses. Sambhaji Raje along with his wife was also said to be imprisoned here by Diler Khan when he fell out with Shivaji Mharaj. Later after death of Shivaji, in 1689, When Sambhaji Raje was captured at Sangameshwar, he was brought to Bahadurgad, as a prisoner. Sambhaji Raje and Kavi Kalash were subjected to a horrific torture when they did not accept to be converted to Islam. Bahadurgad has been renamed as Dharmaveergad in the memory of Sambhaji raje

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Key Features of the Local Area Banks
Each local Area bank is registered as a public limited company under the Companies Act, 1956.

However, they are licensed under the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

The Local Area Banks are the only type of Non-scheduled Banks of India. However, they are eligible to be included in the Second Schedule of the RBI Act 1934 subject to eligibility criteria of RBI.

Local Area Banks have jurisdiction over a maximum of three contiguous districts, and

their basic function is to mobilise funds in rural and semi-urban areas.

The minimum start-up capital of a LAB was fixed at Rs.5 crore and the promoters were asked to bring entire minimum share capital up-front.

The promoters could be individuals, firms or societies. The family of the individual promoters was not allowed to keep more than 40% of the equity capital of the banks.

The NRI promoters could not exceed more than 20% of total number of promoters.

The Local Area banks are subject to prudential norms, accounting policies and other policies as stipulated by the RBI. Such a bank has to maintain capital adequacy at 8% of risk weighted assets and comply with the norms of income recognition, asset classification and provisioning since inception.

Each Local Area Bank is allowed to open branch in only one urban centre per District and rest of the branches were allowed to be opened in the rural and semi urban centers subject to requisite clearance in respect of rural branches from the District Consultative Committee.

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