Pulgaon
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Pulgaon is a city and a municipal council
Municipal council
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 in Wardha district
Wardha District
Wardha district is one of the 35 districts in Maharashtra state in western India. This district is a part of Nagpur Division. The city of Wardha is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district had a population of 1,236,736 of which 26.28% were urban as of 2001.-History:The History...

 in the India
India
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n state
States and territories of India
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 of Maharashtra
Maharashtra
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.

Location

Pulgaon is located at 20.44°N 79.00°E It has an average elevation of 285 metres (935 feet). The nearby towns are Nachangaon (2 nautical miles (3.7 km) to south), Kautha (3.7 nautical miles (6.9 km) to the East), Talni (5.1 nautical miles (9.4 km) to West) and Gunjkheda on North, out of which Nachangaon & Gunjkheda are almost considered as suburbs of Pulgaon only.

History

It is a railway junction on the Wardha-Badnera
Badnera
Badnera is a part of Amravati district of the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra state in India.Badnera is a railway junction on Bhusawal-Badnera railway line of Central Railway...

 section, Arvi
Arvi, Wardha
Arvi is a city and a municipal council in Wardha district in the state of Maharashtra, India.- Geography :Arvi is located at . It has an average elevation of 828 metres . The town is an important centre for the Cotton and Soybean trade...

 narrow-gauge rail link taking off from here northwards. The main town lies south of the railway and is comparatively a new town sprung out of a collection of hutments of workers employed on the railway bridge over the Wardha river near which the town stands. Hence its name "Pul=Bridge_&_gaon=Town => 'Pulgaon' = a Town by the Bridge", sometimes called as the "Bridgetown
Bridgetown
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" just for fun. Its rapid rise in importance is due to the favorable position it occupies in the center of a large cotton growing tract. Again Pulgaon is on the Mumbai
Mumbai
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-Nagpur
Nagpur
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 trunk route and hence can avail itself of the speedy transport. Added to the post and telegraph, is the telephone exchange which highly facilitates commercial transactions.

Pulgaon was created as a municipality in 1901[ Census Handbook of Wardha District however gives the year as 1902.] and has an area of 5.3 square miles (13.7 km²) under its jurisdiction . Nineteen elected councilors constitute the municipal committee. A president is elected by the councilors from among themselves to preside over its meetings. In 1961-62 the total municipal receipts were Rs. 2,87,337 of which receipts from municipal taxes amounted to Rs. 1,12,347. [Ibid.]

About city

Pulgaon, a small town but one of the major activity centers in Wardha district, after Wardha & Hinganghat, junction on the central railway, with the population of >2 lack, but still could not receive the Tahsil Status because of the Politics in the area & the CAD camp
CAD camp
CAD is in the Wardha District of Maharashtra state in India, in the town called Pulgaon. Pin code 442303. It is one of the world's biggest ammunition depots....

, even is not easily identifiable through most of the maps. It is at the bank of the Wardha river and easily accessible to three districts, Wardha, Amravati & Yavatmal. Two companies in the town, Shri Krushna Industries' Cotton Mills erstwhile Pulgaon Cotton Mills Ltd.
Pulgaon Cotton Mills Ltd.
Pulgaon Cotton Mills Ltd. , is a Textile Industry, located in Pulgaon town of Maharashtra state in India."Pulgaon Cotton Mills", founded in 1890 by British, is one of the ancient industries in the central India, with 113 years of service, was closed by the State Government of Maharashtra in March...

 & BEC fertilizers .

There are also some ginning and pressing factories. Hand-loom cloth industry is also picking up gradually. . The town has a rest house too.

The town is built on rocky soil and derives its water supply mainly from the Wardha
Wardha
Wardha is a city and a municipal council in Wardha district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarters of Wardha district. Wardha gets its name from the Wardha River which flows at the North, West and South boundaries of district. Founded in 1866, the town is now an...

 river
River
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, though in recent years quite a few wells have been added to augment the water supply. In dry years when the water runs low a scarcity of water is felt.

Nachangaon & Gunjkheda being the two major adjacent villages, connected to Pulgaon with all the businesses & activities relying on it, making this area bigger than it is said, with a few others villages nearby coming behind. So many temples, Panchadhara in Wardha river, & so on.
"Pulgaon Cotton Mills", founded in 1890 by British, is one of the ancient industries in the central India, serving its 113 yrs of service, was closed by the State Government in March 2003, putting almost 2000 families in a big trouble, losing the major source of income for the people in town & surrounding areas.

The Ganesh Festival in PCM
Pulgaon Cotton Mills Ltd.
Pulgaon Cotton Mills Ltd. , is a Textile Industry, located in Pulgaon town of Maharashtra state in India."Pulgaon Cotton Mills", founded in 1890 by British, is one of the ancient industries in the central India, with 113 years of service, was closed by the State Government of Maharashtra in March...

 was the biggest in Vidarbha
Vidarbha
Vidarbha is the eastern region of Maharashtra state made up of Nagpur Division and Amravati Division. Its former name is Berar . It occupies 31.6% of total area and holds 21.3% of total population of Maharashtra...

 region and the most famous one, is now stopped or is not being offered anymore like the one it used to be before the closure in 2003. That was the real charm & entertainment in the town, for 10 days in Aug-Sept of every year. It is said that, under the high pressure of the Builder Lobby in state and getting a bulk amount of money, Maharashtra Govt closed 11 mills in the State between 2000–2003, and PCM was one of them, leaving bad impacts on minds & scars on the souls of the people in the state.

Surrounding Cities

Pulgaon connects two districts namely Wardha
Wardha
Wardha is a city and a municipal council in Wardha district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarters of Wardha district. Wardha gets its name from the Wardha River which flows at the North, West and South boundaries of district. Founded in 1866, the town is now an...

 and Amravati
Amravati
Amravati is a city in the state of Maharashtra, India and the seventh most populous metropolitan area in Maharashtra. It is also the administrative headquarters of the Amravati district...

. Wardha
Wardha
Wardha is a city and a municipal council in Wardha district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarters of Wardha district. Wardha gets its name from the Wardha River which flows at the North, West and South boundaries of district. Founded in 1866, the town is now an...

 is the nearest city (32 km, via new Nagpur-Aurangabad-Mumbai express highway
Nagpur-Aurangabad-Mumbai express highway
Nagpur–Aurangabad–Mumbai express highway is a Maharashtra State Highway, as its area lies in the state of Maharashtra only, but built on the National Express Highway basis.-Development:...

) and a district
District
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 place too. While it's accessible to three cities & districts as well, Amravati
Amravati
Amravati is a city in the state of Maharashtra, India and the seventh most populous metropolitan area in Maharashtra. It is also the administrative headquarters of the Amravati district...

 (75 km) on West, Wardha
Wardha
Wardha is a city and a municipal council in Wardha district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarters of Wardha district. Wardha gets its name from the Wardha River which flows at the North, West and South boundaries of district. Founded in 1866, the town is now an...

 (32 km) on East and Yavatmal
Yavatmal
Yavatmal is a city and municipal council of the Yavatmal district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The name derives from the Marathi Yavat and mal .-Demographics:yavatmal ,district in Amravati administrative division....

 (50 km) on Southwest.
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Demographics

Pulgaon, with in 1961 a population of 28,063, is a fast growing, Tahsil level municipal town in Wardha
Wardha
Wardha is a city and a municipal council in Wardha district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarters of Wardha district. Wardha gets its name from the Wardha River which flows at the North, West and South boundaries of district. Founded in 1866, the town is now an...

 district on bank of the Wardha river situated about 19 miles (30.6 km) south of Wardha.

As of 1991, Pulgaon population was 36,600 and still growing higher, as like in the rest of India
India
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. The city limits have already been crossed and majority of the Pulgaon population, which even write Pulgaon as a city & pin
Pin
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 442302, are legally in the limits of either Nachangaon or Gunjkheda and so there is a need of restructuring of the city limits, which might make it a B-grade or even rather A-grade Municipal corporation with the total possible population of >70000. Currently, as of 2005, it is B-grade, with the current boundary limits of 5.29 square miles (13.7 km²) .

Though, Pulgaon falls under class-III towns in Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, the population
Population
A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...

 of Pulgaon is largely declined in the past few years. This is the only case of population decline in the past decade, by 6.06%, in the Wardha District
Wardha District
Wardha district is one of the 35 districts in Maharashtra state in western India. This district is a part of Nagpur Division. The city of Wardha is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district had a population of 1,236,736 of which 26.28% were urban as of 2001.-History:The History...

 and in Vidarbha
Vidarbha
Vidarbha is the eastern region of Maharashtra state made up of Nagpur Division and Amravati Division. Its former name is Berar . It occupies 31.6% of total area and holds 21.3% of total population of Maharashtra...

 too . This is mostly because of the non-interests of the local people in politics, no Social awareness in people about their own rights, unavailability of industries and proper Education facilities in the area and also partly because of the CAD camp
CAD camp
CAD is in the Wardha District of Maharashtra state in India, in the town called Pulgaon. Pin code 442303. It is one of the world's biggest ammunition depots....

 in the surrounding area. This tend to result in the migration of the local people for their various needs. Also, Pulgaon, a Tehsil
Tehsil
A Tehsil or Tahsil/Tahasil , also known as Taluk and Mandal, is an administrative division of some country/countries of South Asia....

 level town, and almost twice in the size and population as compared to its tehsil Deoli, it is still ignored and always left unattended by the local and state authorities.
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Education & Facilities Available

Previously, in past until around 12-15 yrs back, Pulgaon had educational facilities only up to the higher secondary school stage, with the primary education being solely conducted by the municipality. But the recent evolutions & developments made it a city with almost all facilities, comparable to other Tier IV cities or the other cities/towns of its type. This town now has the Jr. & Sr. Colleges of all the streams viz., Science
Science
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, Commerce
Commerce
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, & Arts
ARts
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. The degrees offered in those colleges are BA
Bachelor of Arts
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, MA
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
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, BCom, MCom, BSc
BSC
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, DEd
DED
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, with BEd
Bed
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, BCS
Bachelor of Computer Science
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/BCA, DFarm and some other diploma
Diploma
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 & academic degree
Academic degree
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 colleges in the Science
Science
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, Education
Education
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 and Medical & Pharmaceuticals fields coming up in nearer future (Src.: news in the daily news papers in the area, published from Nagpur & Wardha, in Jun-Jul' 2005).

Also, the Primary Schools are not solely the Municipal dominations now. There are more Marathi
Marathi language
Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...

, Hindi
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, English
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 & Urdu
Urdu
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 medium schools shaping up in Pulgaon Town, and which are the way better than these old schools, offering a high quality education to build tomorrow's youth. The R. K. High School & Jr. College being the Top ranked school in town and the oldest of its kind, with almost 85-90% of the town's doctors
Physician
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, engineer
Engineer
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s, managers
Management
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 & teacher
Teacher
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s of tomorrow coming out from the school every year. This school has the highest record of the number of the "Passing" candidates every year of an average of >82%, followed by other schools & Jr. colleges in town, namely, Aadarsh High School & Jr. College, Laber Camp High School, St. John High School, Central School,Dr.ZakirHussain Urdu High School,etc.

Pulgaon is city of technical education, one of pulgaon city jewell educational institute is Industrial Training Institute (ITI)
Industrial training institute
Industrial Training Institutes & "Industrial Training Centers" are training institute which provide training in technical field and constituted under Directorate General of Employment & Training , Ministry of Labour & Employment, Union Government of India.-Structure:Industrial Training Institutes ...

, Pulgaon, established in 1963 with need of catering technical manpower established by Govt of Maharashtra. Its providing cutting edge technical education to young youth of city, and transforming them to tommarrows technical leaders.

A city library is conducted by the Neo-Buddhist youths. The municipality conducts a civil hospital together with a family planning centre. There are also a veterinary dispensary and a leprosy
Leprosy
Leprosy or Hansen's disease is a chronic disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Named after physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen, leprosy is primarily a granulomatous disease of the peripheral nerves and mucosa of the upper respiratory tract; skin lesions...

 eradication center. A club known as Liberty Club established in 1952, besides providing most of the indoor games, has been doing fine work in social and cultural fields also. In 1961 the efforts of its members materialized in the shape of a Manila Mandal, tailoring classes and a vyayamshala or gymnasium. It also brings out a weekly magazine both in Hindi and Marathi captioned 'Shiv Prerana' for which a press was set up in 1962.

Religion & Culture

The town has temples dedicated to all religions Hindu
Hindu
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, Sikh
Sikh
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, Jain, Christian
Christian
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, Muslim
Muslim
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 and Buddhist. The major Hindu temples in the town being Madan Mohan
Madan Mohan
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, Balaji, Shiva
Shiva
Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...

, Maruti
Maruti
Māruti can be*Maruti is a Sanskrit word referring to Hanuman, son of Marut , the Hindu Wind God Vayu*Marut is said to have two sons: Hanuman the bachelor God and Bhima....

, Ram
Rama
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, Datta
Datta
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, Bhavani
Bhavani
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-Mata, Katheen-Mata, Bhairav-Baba and Vitthal. Of these, Balaji temple is reported to be 80 years old and is looked after by a trust and the Shiva
Shiva
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 temple at the Panchdhara is one of the oldest too. The first temple to be built in Pulgaon is of Goddess
Goddess
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 Bhavani
Bhavani
Bhavani is a ferocious aspect of the Hindu goddess Parvati. Bhavani means "giver of life", the power of nature or the source of creative energy. In addition to her ferocious aspect, she is also known as Karunaswaroopini, "filled with mercy"....

 near CAD camp, built at the time of Shivaji Maharaj.
The Jain temple in town is one of the oldest too and is the only for all the Jains in town & nearby. the Mahavir Jayanti
Jayanti
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 Utsav
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 is celebrated every year, with a huge procession through the town. The Buddha
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 temple in the town containing a bronze
Bronze
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 bust of the Buddha, has a spacious Sabhamandap and is built by the neo-Buddhists of Pulgaon. The Statue
Statue
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 is reported to have been brought from Thailand
Thailand
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. Madan Mohan
Madan Mohan
Madan Mohan Kohli , better known as Madan Mohan, was a famed Bollywood film music director of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s...

Vallabh Sampraday Haveli (temple) was built some 110 years ago by Ishwardasji Mohata. Madan Mohanji (Krishna) & Shyaminiji (Radha) along with Laddu Gopal in Astha Dhatu is celebrated there.

Pulgaon is one of the leading cotton
Cotton
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 trade centers in the district, there being a large cotton market. The Pulgaon spinning Mills were opened in 1890. The PCM (Pulgaon Cotton Mills
Pulgaon Cotton Mills Ltd.
Pulgaon Cotton Mills Ltd. , is a Textile Industry, located in Pulgaon town of Maharashtra state in India."Pulgaon Cotton Mills", founded in 1890 by British, is one of the ancient industries in the central India, with 113 years of service, was closed by the State Government of Maharashtra in March...

) was the oldest one, which was closed in 2003. There are also some ginning and pressing factories. Hand-loom cloth industry is also picking up gradually. Pulgaon has assumed military importance since the establishment of Asia's second largest ammunition depot, CAD camp, here. The town has a rest house too.

Transport

There are both the major transportations available. There is an MSRTC
MSRTC
Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation , also referred to as MSRTC, or simply ST, is the state run bus service of Maharashtra, India with 16,000 buses which ferry 7 million passengers daily on 17,000 routes...

 (Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation) Bus-Depot & workshop in Pulgaon with the capacity of 38 buses as of Mar'2007. Major bus routes passing through Pulgaon are Nagpur-Gondia
Gondia
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, Mahur
Mahur
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-Yevatmal-Arvi-Katol
Katol
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, Shegaon
Shegaon
Shegaon is a city and a municipal council in Buldana district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.-Geography:Shegaon is located around 550 km east of the city of Mumbai and 300 km west from the city of Nagpur...

-Akola-Amravati
Amravati
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-Wardha
Wardha
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-Chandrapur
Chandrapur
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, etc. with connecting other major cities & towns around or further ahead. The bus stop & railway station both are located at the Camp road, Pulgaon.

Railway And Roadways are the main modes of transportation. Pulgaon is on the Central railways route, 105 km (66 Miles) from Nagpur & 32 km (20 Miles) from Wardha towards West. Pulgaon is a small junction too, connecting Arvi
Arvi, Wardha
Arvi is a city and a municipal council in Wardha district in the state of Maharashtra, India.- Geography :Arvi is located at . It has an average elevation of 828 metres . The town is an important centre for the Cotton and Soybean trade...

 to the main central route by a narrow gauge line.

The National level Highways, North-to-South from Bhopal to Hyderabad and East-to-West via Nagpur-Aurangabad-Mumbai express highway
Nagpur-Aurangabad-Mumbai express highway
Nagpur–Aurangabad–Mumbai express highway is a Maharashtra State Highway, as its area lies in the state of Maharashtra only, but built on the National Express Highway basis.-Development:...

  crossing at Pulgaon. This route, once done will connect many cities & important activity centers in Maharashtra via the same link, reducing the distance between Nagpur
Nagpur
Nāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...

 & Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

 by almost >8 hrs. as compared to NH 6, as the sources said.

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- Jalna
Jalna (city)
Jalna is a city and a municipal council in Jalna district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Jalna was formerly a part of Nizam State as a tahsil of Aurangabad district....

- Aurangabad - Vaijapur
Vaijapur
Vaijapur is a city and a municipal council in Aurangabad district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.-Geography:Vaijapur is located at . It has an average elevation of 514 metres ....

 - Sawantsar - Pun-tamba - Zagade - Sinnar
Sinnar
Sinnar is a city and a municipal council in Sinnar taluka of Nashik district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.-Geography:Sinnar is located at . It has an average elevation of 651 metres . Sinnar is one of the major industrial zones built around city of Nashik. It lies 30 km southeast of...

 - Ghoti - (via NH3) - Kalyan - Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...


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