Shahapur, India

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Shahapur is a census town in Thane district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The nearest railway station is Asangaon, which is 85km from Mumbai CST on the Central railway line. Shahapur is situated around 25km from Kalyan railway station, 45km from Thane, and 55km from Mulund. Shahapur lies on the Mumbai-Agra National Highway - No.3 and is 90km from Mumbai.
Shahpur in an industrial area also. Jindal steel has a plant here. Other notable firms that have a plant here is Liberty Oil.Shahapur is also a Taluka place and areawise Shahapur is the largest Taluka in Thane District. Most of the dams supplying water to Mumbai are located nearby. Shahapur is also surrounded by the Sahyadris and places like Mahuli and Aaja are hot-spots for trekking. The Maharastra Government has declared Shahapur a Tourism spot.

Geography

Shahapur is located at coord|19.45|N|73.33|E|region:IN_type:city_scale:10000_source:inarticle [ [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/16/Shahapur.html Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Shahapur] ] . It has an average elevation of 46 metres (150 feet).

The total water supply to mumbai city is 3000 MLD per day. The four damns, namely, Tansa, Bhatsa, Vaitarna and Modak Sagar, alone caters 2900 MLD per day. The 100 MLD are supplied by two lakes located around Borivali, TUlsi and Vihar. Since Shahapur supplies almost the entire drinking water to Mumbai, the government of Maharashtra has declared this town a No Chemical Zone. Consequently, no one can start a chemical industry in this area.

Demographics

As of 2001 India censusGR|India}m}, Shahapur had a populatmion of 50,489. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Shahapur has an average literacy rate of 87%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 89%, and female literacy is 84%. In Shahapur, 12% of the population is under 6 yemars of age.

this is shahapur

Shahapur is town on mumbai agra highway,being taluka place and good connectivity to mumbai. Its growing fast construction boom is clearly seen like mumbai suburbs.Infrastructure is crumbling due to major increase in vehicles due to economic boom. Local transport mainly depend on auto rikshaws, buses and private vehicles. Shahapur is connected to all major cities of maharashtra.

Recently it has a major boom in industrial sector as it has a major advantage of good transport facility easily available labour class and also linked with mumbai suburbs with Railway [ central railway local trains through Asangaon Station [AN] ] .

How to Reach

To reach Shahapur, you may either take a Maharashtra State Transport bus that leads to Shahapur or take Asangaon or Kasara local train on central route of Mumbai Suburban Railway. To reach Shahapur by road come from the National highway no. 3. One can also reach Shahpur from National Highway No. 4 from Khopoli Haal Phata through Karjat - Murbad State highway or from Chauk - Karjat
*)1) By BUS )- Mumbai - Shirdi, Mumbai - Dhulia,Mumbai - Nashik By Any Bus we can go SHAHAPUR

2) BY TRAIN )- Mumbai-Kasara ,Mumbai-Asanagaon By these train we can go SHAHAPUR

Economy

The dominant economy of Shahapur is agriculture. However, recently there have been some spurts of Residential construction taking place.

Education

Being a taluka place Shahapur has a lot of schools and colleges. The major schools in Shahapur are:
There are Primary Schools as well as Secondary And Higher Secondary Schools. This college also has a Computer Science department is also in this college.

1) G.V.Khade Vidyalaya
2) Janakalyan Vidyalaya
3) Marathi Mandal School
4) Zilla Parishad School for boys
5) Zilla Parishad School for girls
6) P.S. Deshmukh English Medium School
7)jindal school(cbsc board)The only Junior College here is the Acharya Bhise Junior College run by the [http://shahaputeducationsociety.org Shahapur Taluka Education Society] (STES).

The only Senior college in Shahapur is the Sonubhau Baswant College.

Other than them STES has recently started a B.Ed. college.There is d.ed college.b.ed college is also there.s.s.jondhale engg.college is coming to shahapur

References

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External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/kaushalchandak/trek.htm Trek to Mahuli hills at Shahpur]