It is an area within convenient distances of several schools, restaurants, parks, promenades and shopping centres.

Khar, which is derived from the word Khāra (meaning 'salty' in the local language Marathi) has acquired this name in reference to the salt pans that were used to farm salt by locals near the Khar Danda sea shore a couple of centuries ago.

[citation needed] Alongside fishing, salt production was one of the vocations that sustained the earliest dwellers of Khar Danda.

In the early 1900s, the Pathare Prabhu community lived in South Mumbai and used their quaint bungalows in Khar as weekend dwellings.

Keeping these factors in mind, as well as the growing number of homes in this part, a second railway station named 'Khar Road' was introduced in north Bandra on 1 July 1924.