Kareli is a city and a Municipalityin the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Kareli is financial capital of the district.it is well connected by transportation. Near Kareli, An ancient fair called Barman Mela is organised every year in the month of January on the bank of the river Narmada. There are many historic and religious places in Kareli like Deepeshwar Temple Barman, Chougan Fort. NH-26 passes through Kareli and also connected to almost every part of the country by rail network. Before the construction of the Bina-Katni branch of the Indian Midland Railway, the metaled road from Saugor crossing the Nerbudda at Barmhan brought the bulk of the produce of the Sagar District to Kareli station. A mail cart ran from Kareli to Sagar, a distance of 122 km (76 mi). The trade of Kareli has now considerably declined, but it is still the exporting station for the southern parts of the Rehli tahsil of Sagar and the north of Narsinghpur. A cotton-ginning factory, the property of Raja Gokul Das, was opened in 1904. This is the nearest rail station and market for towns of Sagar district.