CAD camp

CAD - Central Ammunition Depot.

This is residing in the Wardha District of Maharashtra state in India, in the town called Pulgaon. Pin code 442303.

This is a good place, world's one of the biggest Ammunition Depots, CAD camp with the area of around >150 KM in perimeter and still expanding towards the villages behind it. Also, becoming India's "largest" military-civil camp with almost all kinds of Facilities & securities monitoring this area 24X7.

A few years back, it used to be a very nice place to visit, easily accessible for Picnics, get togethers and some spiritual activities at "Bhairav Baba Temple" at the bottom of one of the three hills in the nearby area, beautiful lakes, great cool environment with greenary everywhere, one theater "The Garrison", two schools, Labor Camp & Central School & what not, more than good enough for a small town....It was a place of minimal risk until around 1999-2000, before 9-11 attack & after that the attack on "Sansad Bhavan", and some Terrorists found in this & surrounding area, resulting the tightening in the Securities up to a very high extent and stopping all the activities & entertainments....& that was the actual ending of this area being out of focus for the people in the Pulgaon Town & nearby.

Pulgaon,whereas a small town but one of the major activity centers in Wardha district, after Wardha & Hinganghat, with the population of >45000, but still could not receive the Tahsil Status because of the Politics in area & this CAD camp, even is not easily identifiable through most of the maps. It is a t the bank of the Wardha river and easily accessible to three districts, Wardha, Amaravati & Yavatmal. Two companies in the town, Shri Krushna Industries' Cotton Mills erstwhile PCM & the Vidarbha Phosphates.