Nashirabad

Nasirabad
town
Nasirabad

Location in Maharashtra, India

Coordinates: 21°00′00″N 75°40′00″E / 21.00000°N 75.66667°E / 21.00000; 75.66667Coordinates: 21°00′00″N 75°40′00″E / 21.00000°N 75.66667°E / 21.00000; 75.66667
Country  India
State Maharashtra
District Jalgaon
Elevation 206 m (676 ft)
Population
 • Total 26,131(2,011)
Languages
 • Official Marathi
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 425309
[1]

Nasirabad is a small town about 10 km from Jalgaon district in the north side of Maharashtra state of India. It was named by the name of 'Nasir Badshah' Most of the population is Leva Patidar (Khandeshi) and are farmers. Main business to earn bread and butter is farming of banana tree, sugar cane. Nasirabad is on National Highway No. 6 (Surat-Kolkata National Highway) and has many warehouses of local products. Nashirabad is in Jalgaon district.[2] At the time of Moughal empires name of Nasirabad was Solnimbhore. The main reason behind this was, Nasirabad had 16 Hanuman temples and 16 main big doors. In the period of Ahilyabai Holkar (31 May 1725 to 13 Aug 1795) she made a temple (1760) in Nasirabad and only one temple in Nasirabad as old as Ganpati temple, but at this moment, this temple is unknown to each and every people in Nasirabad.

Transport facilities

Most people depend on Public transport (MSRTC), commonly known as "ST" and private hire vehicles like auto-rickshaw for commuting to and from district and taluka places like Jalgaon and Bhusawal. All the MSRTC buses except express bus services stop at Nashirabad bus stand. Nearest Bus depots like Jalgaon and Bhusawal are located at either side of Nashirabad and are one of the biggest in the region. Although, private shared transports are available but ST is still a preferred option of traveling.

Railway stations:

Education

Schools

The New English School, Nasirabad. It is a main education center in Nasirabad for primary and secondary school education

New English School, Nasirabad was established in 1945 and admit students for primary and secondary education. Also, there is a branch of New English School which has Junior College of Arts and MCVC (kiman kaushlya vibhag). The school is a center for 10th board exams and most of the students from neighboring small villages like Bhadli, Asoda, Kadgaon get their center as New English School. K.S.T. Urdu HIgh School has also been run for the Urdu medium students. Shrvan Computers is one of the best computer training center in Nasirabad which is authorized by MCCE Aurangabad.

Girls school

There is separate girls school for primary education. There are four Z.P. primary school and Urdu school. Sarawday girls school, Nashirabad.

Industrial Training Institute (ITI)

ITI is an institute which trains students in many speciality fields like fitter, mechanical, electrical. The ITI of Nashirabad and New English School is located very close to each other.

Medical Facilities

Nasirabad has a Primary Health Center (PHC) managed by government. Most of the people go to PHC for basic treatment of common diseases and vaccination of their children.

Godavari hospital was opened with the help of Shri. Ulhas Patil (Ex-MP) close to Nasirabd (2–3 km away). This hospital is popular in local communities as they provide good services at low cost. This Hospital is managed by Godavari Medical College.

Nasirabad has around 15 qualified private practitioners and all of them have their own private clinics across different parts

People of Nasirabad

People are mainly of Leva patidar samaj, other people of Maratha, Bramhin samaj and Mali along with other communities e.g. Sali, Koshti, Wani, Muslims, Jain, Sutar, rangari (bhavsar), Dhobi, koli, marvadi etc. Naik wada is one of the oldest wada at Nasirabad. Naiks were very rich and were holding 600–700 acres land in and around Nashirabad. Now land is divided and part of the land they sold. Varchi Ali area mostly is occupied by Naiks.

Famous Television journalist and Anchor Nilesh Khare is also from the Nashirabad . He did his schooling from New English school .

Famous Television Actor Sandeep Mehta is also from the Nashirabad.

Temples

  • Vitthal Mandir - at Down Lane, Holi Maidan
  • Balabhim Vyayamshala
  • Anna Maharaj Math
  • Sawata Maharaj Manidr - Upper Lane
  • Ram Mandir (residence of Prashant Dharmadhikari and Rajeshvar Dharmadhikari)
  • Bavani Mandir
  • Mukteshwar Mandir
  • Mahalakshmi Mandir
  • Ganpati Mandir (Tarsod 2.5 km from village) etc.
  • Neemjay Mata Bhavani's Mandir
  • Dnyaneshwar maharaj mandir.
  • Shree Krishna Mandir
  • Ram Peth
  • Ganpati Mandir (Nashirabad)
  • Indira Gandhi Chowk
  • Marimata Mandir (Ravindra Bhagvan Javre)
  • Anna maharaj Mandir, near Grampanchayat,
  • Mahalaxmi Mandir

Mosques

Areas in Nasirabad

References

Temples in Nashirabad:- vitthal mandir Khalchi adi * Shri Vishnu Mandir Devasthan was established in 1725. This temple had been situated at Nashirabad since the time of "Pesheve". Shri Vishnu Mandir devasthan was built as per direction of Honorary Magistrate Kai. Amrutrao Deshpande.

  1. ↑ Pin codes of Jalgaon district, Jalgaon pincodes, Maharashtra zip code. WhereInCity. Retrieved on 2008-06-14.
  2. ↑ "Census of India 2001: Data from the 2001 Census, including cities, villages and towns (Provisional)". Census Commission of India. Archived from the original on 2004-06-16. Retrieved 2008-11-01.

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