Devale

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Devale is a small village located in Poladpur Tehsil, in Raigad District, Maharashtra, India.

It is closely surrounded by hills from Sahyadri Mountain Ranges and the river Savitri. You can have a beautiful view of Mahabaleshwar and Pratapgadh from this place.

The village is formed by four small vaadi's. 1. Fase vadi 2. Jambhul vadi 3. Chikhal vadi and 4. Palikadache devale. Except Chikhal vadi all other Vadi's are on top of three different hillocks and they all put together form village Devale.

One of the ancient Shiva temple resides on the banks of river Savitri. It is said that villagers wanted to rebuild the Shiva Temple and they strated excavating the area nearby the Shivalingam, and they discovered the Stone Ledden base of preexisting old Shiva Temple. The presently existing Shiva Temple is built on top of the this Base.

This village has a recently built dam which connects the two High Hills and blocks a free flowing terrain.The Dam increases the beauty of this place many fold.

Devale has two schools, the Central School Devale, which has primary education fascility up to 4th Standard and the other School is Secondary school for education from 5th Standard to 10th Standard.

Secondary school is Naraveer Tanaji Malusare Vidyalay Devale(N.T.M.V.D). It is located on the bank of river Savitri. It has a well trained teaching staff and a good inftastucture with computer training and Library fascility.

School not only encourages students to pursue education but also inculcates the importance of nature and plants in their life. The school is well known for its Kabaddi players. Most of the students belong to farmer familier and they learn basics of Farming and tree plnatation during their childhood and school rightly supports their interest and also teaches them importance of the Higher education..

The main profession of the people from Devale is farming. There are three main seasons; winter (November to February), summer (March to June) and Monsoon (rainy) season (June- July till September). Devale gets very heavy rains every year, up to 300 cms in a day in peak July time.

The main crop is rice, other farm products include nachani and "vari". Farmers also produce various vegetables and fruits. There are many mango, jackfruit and cashew nut trees in and around the village.

People from this region are part of a much greater section of Maharashtra, called Konkan, and thus follow Konkani life style.