Shahada, Maharashtra
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- For the Islamic creed, see Shahadah.
Shāhāda is a town in the northwest corner of Maharashtra state in India, now in Nandurbār District (formerly in Dhule District).
The population of Shāhāda is around 50,000.
Shāhāda is the most developed city and the most literate city in Nandurbar district, and is well cleaned and maintained.
In 2000 there were protests in Shāhāda and Nandurbar about land in the area being submerged by water stored by the Sardar Sarovar dam in the Narmada River valley.
Shahada is one of the 7 Tehsils in the Nandurbar district. Its majority population is these communities:-
[edit] People
- Several of North Maharashtra University's professors live in Shahada.
- Poojya Sane Guruji was born in 1923 in a village near Shāhāda. He worked much to provide education in the area.
[edit] Notable places in or near Shāhāda
- There is a college of engineering called Poojya Sane Guruji Vidya Prasarak Mandal in Shāhāda.
- Toranmal is the 2nd coolest Hill Station in Maharashtra state and is near to Shāhāda (approx. 40 km).
- Unapdev (250 meters away) is a pleasant picnic point in Shāhāda tahsil.
- Shāhāda has one of the most developed sugar mills. It also has a paper mill, wine distillery.
- Prakasha, one of the famous religious places, also known as Uttar Kashi, is also in this Tehsil. The temple of Prakasha is very old.
- One of the famous temples of the god Shree Ganesha (Heramb) is at Jaynagar, 24 km away from Shāhāda. Hundreds of thousands of people visit on the occasion of Mangli Chathurthi.
- Datta temple is located at Sarangkheda.
[edit] External links
- http://vidyashramshahada.com/coe/contact.htm Enquiry site
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