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Taksal is a village in
Himachal Pradesh Himachal Pradesh (; Sanskrit: ''himācāl prādes;'' "Snow-laden Mountain Province") is a States and union territories of India, state in the northern part of India. Situated in the Western Himalayas, it is one of the thirteen Indian Himalayan ...
, India. Lying in the foothills of the Himalayas, it lies just above
Parwanoo Parwanoo or Parwanu is a municipal council in Solan district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. It is an industrial town. It has Himachal's biggest wholesale market. First in 3rd-category (less than 3 lakhs population) of Swachh Vayu Sarve ...
(
Solan district Solan district is one of the twelve districts of the Himachal Pradesh state in northern India. The city of Solan is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district occupies an area of 1936 km2. History The territory of the ...
). Taksal got its name from ''takka'' which means coins and because it used to be a place where coins were made in the time of kings. Today, it contains an Outpost of the
Government Railway Police Government Railway Police (GRP), or simply Railway Police, are branches of the state police forces in India responsible for maintaining law and order, as well as preventing and detecting crimes in railway premises and trains. Its duties corre ...
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Villages in Solan district {{HimachalPradesh-geo-stub