Zakatkhana is a village in the
Bilaspur district of
Himachal Pradesh, Northern India surrounded on three sides by the
Govind Sagar
Gobind Sagar Lake is a reservoir situated in Una and Bilaspur districts of Himachal Pradesh, India. It is formed by the Bhakra Dam.
The reservoir is on the river Sutlej and is named in honour of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh guru. One ...
lake, which was created by the building of the
Bhakra Dam on the
Sutlej River
The Sutlej or Satluj River () is the longest of the five rivers that flow through the historic crossroads region of Punjab in northern India and Pakistan. The Sutlej River is also known as ''Satadru''. It is the easternmost tributary of the Ind ...
. Zakatkhana lies from
Swarghat.
The name derives from ''zakat'' meaning "
toll
Toll may refer to:
Transportation
* Toll (fee) a fee charged for the use of a road or waterway
** Road pricing, the modern practice of charging for road use
** Road toll (historic)
The road toll was a historical fee charged to travellers and ...
tax" owing to the village's "toll tax barrier" at the time of the
British Raj. Zakatkhana is on the old National Highway-21 from Bilaspur to
Rupnagar in Punjab before 1954, when it was merged following construction of the
Bhakhra Dam
Bhakra Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Sutlej River in Bhakra Village near Bilaspur in Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh in northern India. The dam forms the Gobind Sagar reservoir.
The dam, located at a gorge near the (now submerged ...
. To reach the village one can take NH 21 from
Chandigarh and after travelling {{convert, 100, km from Chandigarh there is a small hill station at Swarghat.
This village is also known as land of temples as it is the location of the Sidh baba Balak nath mandir and is also home to the Rupeshwar Mahadev and Maa Sherawali temples.
Zakatkhana Pin code is 174011 and people of Zakatkhana village use Hindi language for communication.
References
External links
Map of Zakatkhana
Villages in Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh