- Nagbhid
-
Nagbhid — town — Coordinates Country India State Maharashtra District(s) Chandrapur Nearest city Brahmapuri Parliamentary constituency Gadchiroli-Chimur Assembly constituency Chimur Civic agency Grampanchayat Time zone IST (UTC+05:30) Nagbhid (or Nagbhir) is a village under gram panchayat governance and a Tehsil itself subdivision of Chandrapur district in Nagpur revenue Division in the Vidarbha region in the state of Maharashtra, India.
The town is famous for the Shiv temple which is located on the hills (Mahadeo chi tekdi, called locally) on the western part of the town. Town is a central place between Nagpur-Gadchiroli-Bramhapuri-Chandrapur road link. Town is also famous for it silk(kosa), wool (ghongda-wool blanket), rice. Population of town is above 20000 and is Governed by Gram Panchayat.
Contents
History
Not much of the research has been done on the history of the town, but oldest documented reference can be seen for the nearby village called as 'chikumbara' in the stone script which was found in nearby village devtak, 4 km from the nagbhir towards east. The stone script, written in prakrit language, tells that the village chikumbara was donated to some bramhin by order of some minister of Samrat Ashok, in 1st century B.C. Still there is village called as chikmara near nagbhir which proves the link with history. The stone is kept in central museum Nagpur. There are multiple stone pilers, half buried, in rows,near the hill in the town. Some researchers have related them to 3000 year old tribal custom of erecting a stone piller at the burial place. But these stones need more research.
following is information found in CHANDA dist gazetteer in 1909....
Nagbhir-Is situated in the north-west of the Bramhapuri tahsil and is the first considerable village which the traveller from Umrer to Chanda arrives at after entering the confines of this District. It is 65 miles to the north-east of Chanda. It is as usual a straggling village which has grown up without any conscious plan, and the confusion of its houses and the tortuousness of its lanes are brought into strong contrast by the Government high road, which cuts a ruthlessly straight line undeviatingly through the abadi. Two roads meet here, the high road from Chanda to Umrer and so ultimately to Nagpur, and the branch road to the tahsil headquarters at Bramhapuri 14 miles distant. To these important routes of traffic will shortly be added a rail-road. The Gondia-Chanda Railway is to pass through Nagbhir, throwing out at this point a branch line to Nagpur, and Nagbhir junction should, in the near future, be a busy and important station. The population in 1901 was 2940, against 3896 in 1891. At present the village is chiefly celebrated for its tasar spinning industry, the yarn produced here being of a particularly the quality. When plague raged at Umrer a few years ago, the well-known spinners of that place emigrated to Nagbhir, and there tided over the time of trouble. A weekly bazar is held here on Thursdays and an annual fair takes place at Mahashivartra about a mile from the village, and conspicuous for miles as a white spot against a dark background of hill is a temple, by which abides a fakir who obtains his living from the offerings of the pious. Behind the temple is a small natural cave. An inspection bungalow has recently been built on the camping ground-a somewhat eerie spot tenanted by the tombs of dead and gone Musalmans. There is as usual a school, into which the fairly large Muhammadan community of the place are ever wishful to introduce the study of Urdu, and at last their efforts have been crowned with success-an Urdu teacher was, in 1908, appointed to the school as assistant master. There is also a branch post office The malguzar of the village is a Muhammadan. A very good historical place.
Language
Main language in town is Marathi, however people can understand and speak Hindi and English. The Marathi spoken here is "Zadi" Marathi, widely spken in Vidarbha region. The communities like Kosti, Koskahti, Dhangars have their own language but can speak Marathi fluently.
Economy
The economy of the town is mainly agriculture based and most of the people in town are either farmers or farm workers. The small portion of the population constitute Government employees in Govt Schools, college, Tahesil office, railway employees, panchayat samitee employees. And part of community is of merchants (Grocery , cloth, hardware, medicine)
Also town has communities of potters (kumbhars), iron smith (lohar), gold smiths (sonar e.g. Rakesh kharwade, Gajpure, Kawle family), shephards (dhangar e.g. Potrajwar), silk workers (koshti e.g. Sonkusare) (koskati e.g. Vigam, Kamunwar, Bandawar), butchers (khatik), bhangi, teli (oil extractors e.g. chilbule , bhajankar), Kunbi (farmers e.g. Radke, Choudhari, Bhendarkar, Hemane, Pathode, Shivankar, Mahajan, Mule, Gawande), Carpenters, Chambhar (cobbler), Beldar (masons e.g. Dachewars), Varthis (e.g.shankar & mukesh Dasarwars), S.C. (mahar e.g. kose , meshram).
The presence of these communities and continuation of their ancestral work till date gives this town essence of old culture.
The geographical area of the town is divided as per these communities hence deriving names like khatikamta (place of iron smiths), dhangar mohalla etc.
Religion
The town has people of Hindu religion in majority with next major religion Muslims and Budhist, other communities are very minor restricting to one or two families. Town has good temples of Shiva, Vitthal Mandir, Ram Mandir, Chavdeshwari Mandir and small Hanuman temples at various places in town. Also town has a Mosque and Budhha Vihar.
Trade
Town is central market for agriculture produce. Every Thursday it holds weekly bazzar where in people from surrounding villages bring their agriculture produce like grains, vegetable, fish for sale. There are vegetable, mutton, chicken and fish markets which supply good quality fresh products.
The town is surrounded by fresh water lakes like Nawkhala, Ghodazari, Kasrla which supplies fresh variety of fish (Vaghur, Rohu, Katla, Prawns, botre etc.).
Transport
Town is well connected to cities like Nagpur (approx 97 km, Chandrapur approx 100 km, Bramhapuri approx 20 km by good roads and rail link (meter gauge). The town has one of the oldest railway junction Chandrapur-Gondia-Nagpur). Recently part of meter gauge has been converted to broad gauge under project Unigauge and conversion of Nagpur-Nagbhir narrow gauge line to broad gauge has been sanctioned which will help the local economy in many ways.
The town has two petrol pumps, one BPCL pump on Bramhapuri Road near old bus stand and other new Indian Oil petrol pump, Gauri Servo Centre on Nagpur road.
The town has Government offices like Tahesil Office, Panchayat Samiti, Railway office, R&B, PWD office, Irrigation department, Banks like Bank of India, Maharashtra bank, State Bank of India, Chandrapur District Co-operative banks and other small co-operative banks for finance.
Town has a police station, the crime rate is very low and good law and order is maintained in the town for years together.
Town has an old Cinema hall near Bank Of India.
Medical facilities
The town has history of good Vaidhya, like shri Nagorao Vigam Shri Ganpatrao Vaidya, ShriShridhar Vaidya, expert in Ayurvedic Medicine. At present town has good Doctors like Dr Anant Dachewar,Dr Khobragade, Dr Bagade,DR. NANAJI K LADE and some new practitioners. Also town has a Government Hospital, however for specialised treatment or for pathalogical diagnosis people had to go to nearby towns and cities like Bramhapuri ( chiristnand (sicsic) Hospital), Chandrapur and Nagpur. But now town has a good pathology with an updated infrastructure. The town has number of good medical stores. Few of them are quite old in the town like Pandharinath, Warjurkar and Singh medical stores.Good new 'DEV MEDICAL STORES' All these facilities grab the interest of nearby villagers.
Education
Nagbhid has three primary schools 'Basic School' for boys and 'Kanya Shala' for girls and Saraswati Vidya Mandir for boys and girls from 1st to 4th standard. From 5th to 12th town has three schools, junior high schools, 'Janata Vidhyalay' for Boys, 'Janata Kanya' for Girls, 'Karmveer Vidhyalaya 'with co-education. Most of the boys/girls in Nagbhid are pass outs of these schools in Nagbhid. Nagbhid has Industrial training Institute (ITI)and senior college in the name of Shri Govindrao Warzurkar which imparts Graduation course in Arts and commerce and Mahatma Gandhi arts and science college. Town is also having two D.Ed and B.Ed collegesPeople in the town have good knowledge in Marathi literaure. Also there is a BALWADI and some anganwadis for nursery education. However for higher education in Science, Engineering, Medical or medicine, law the students have to go to nearby cities like Bramahapuri, Nagpur or Chandrapur. In 2003, Vijay Sonkusara secured 1st rank in all India Entrance Exam - GATE in Agril. Engg. He was the first person from Nagbhid Tehsil who got M. Tech degree from India's reputed institute, IIT, Kharagpur, W.B He also secured all India 3rd rank in ICAR, Pusa ( Junior Research Scientist), 2003.In 2002, RAHUL FATING ,came SIXTH MERIT in Nagpur board in 2007 Anand Kabra From Nagbhir topped in M. Pharm from IPER Wardha and got gold medal. He also passed GATE exam in 2005 and got AICTE scholarship. The town has produced best Engineers and Doctors. Recently Mr Rahul Gawand cleared the SC Exam and he become the first from Nagbhid tahsil to achieve that landmark and only one candidate from Chandrapur district in 2009. DR RAHUL FATING cleard upsc 2010 in first attempt and selected for IPS. The Janata Vidyalay in Nagbhid has maintained its glorious record of giving highest results in Ssc and Hsc every year.Year 2011-2012 batch of ssc was the highest scoring batch in the history of the school.
Governance
Nagbhid comes under Chimur-Gadchiroli Constituency, Mr Marotrao Kovase is Member Of Parliament for the area and for state legislature Nagbhid comes under Chimur constituency and Mr. Vijay Waddetiwar represents Chimur Constituency to State Legislation'. Town is politically active and have mix of supporters for Indian National Congress, NCP, BJP, Shivsena, Republican party.
Agriculture
The main crop in the area is rice due to suitable climate for paddy, Shree HARIBHAU AMRITKAR farmer with past experience of handling GOVT. FARMS produce different variety of wheat, gram, pulses (like tuvar, lakhori, mung,udid), vegetables, fruits like berries, mangos, guava in his sai farmhouse on chandrapur road
Festival and Specialities
Nagbhid being mixed of all religions celebrates all festivals of Hindus, Muslims and Bhudhism. People get involve in celebrations of these festivals. The major festivals like Diwali, Dushera, Holi, Janmashtami (Birthday of lord Krishna) pola, Id Muhrram are celebrated in the town. Special festivals like Mahashivratri, Ganesh Chaturdashi, Navratri (Durga Puja), Sharda Puja, Nagpanchami, Sankrant are also celebrated in the town. Also Ganeshchaturthi is one of the great festivals celebrated in Nagbhid.There are several Ganesh Mandals in Nagbhid who celebrate this festival with huge response.Also Ganeshchaturti is celebrated at many homes in this village.
Burning of effigy of 'Ravana' on the occasion of Dushera is a tradition of the town for years together.
On Holi, on day one holika dahan takes places at many places on in the town and next day is celebrated as Rangpanchami i.e. festival of colours.
Pola is one of the major festival in the town which is generally celebrated in Vidharbha region of Maharashtra. This is the festivals of bullucks which are used by farmers in the farms and are integral part of the life of farmers. Bullocks are decorated, worshiped on the day. The pair of bullocks are displayed in the local market. Next day is celebrated as tanna Pola, in early hours of morning Procession of a 'Marbat', symboil of evil spiritis taken all along the street of the towna and then dispersed out side the town indiacting removal of bad habits, evil spirits.
Tanna Pola, i.e. Pola for children where in children display small bullocks toys made of wood also called as Nandi bail and a procession is taken all around the town.
Nagbhid is among the few places where Mahashivratri is celebrated on a large scale. In the morning hours people in the town go to the Shiva Temple which is located on the hills on the outskirt for worship. At the bottom of the hill there is a fair. In the evening a procession of "Nandi" (10–12 feet tall effigy of a bull on wheeled chariot) ALSO CALLED NANDI RATH, who is worshipped as carrier of Lord Shiva starts from the house of late Shri Gajananrao Kamunwar to the base of Shiva hills (Mahadeo chi tekdi, called locally) and kept there for display for two weeks, during these two weeks the weekly bazar is held at the base of the hill. There are some festivals called 'Jivti' which might have lost relevance in today's world but is still celebrated in Nagbhid. Dushera festival is a typical celebration where GOLD is distributed by the people, surprised, The leaves of tree called SHAMI, or 'shamipatras' are exchanged as gold on the occasion of Dushera after burning effigy of RAVANA OR RAVAN DAHAN , as a symbol of conquer over capital of Ravana SHRI LANKA , supposed to be made of Gold, by Shri Rama a Hindu daity. The other part of the story is that when Pandavas in Mahabaharta went for Vanvas they hide their veapons on the tree called shami hence shami patras.
Janmashtami-Birth day of lord Krishna also celebrated in most of the home.In the Janmastami peaple buying the idol(Murti or stachu) of Lord krishna and Radha from the market and installed(sthapana) in home in this auspicious event the next day pleople arrange the small Dahi handi programme and singing the devotional song of Lord Krishna.After completion of Dahi handi event the idol of Lord Krishna immersed in water.
References
Coordinates: 20°35′0″N 79°40′0″E / 20.583333°N 79.666667°E
Categories:- Cities and towns in Chandrapur district
- Talukas in Maharashtra
- Railway stations in Maharashtra
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
