Distinguish from Shahad

Shahad

Shahad is a town in Thāne district in Maharashtra state in India. It is located 60 km from Mumbai.The term "Shahad" is derived from Urdu word "Shah Had" "Shah" related to Mughals and "Had" means Border, it means Border of Shah's. Kalyan was developed under Mughal empire...

 town in Thana

Thana

Thana means "police station" in South Asian countries, and can also mean the district controlled by a police station.* Thana, along with upazila, is a subdistrict in the Administrative divisions of Bangladesh...

 district in Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

 state.

Shahādā (Devanagari

Devanagari

Devanagari |deva]]" and "nāgarī" ), also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...

: शहादा), one of the 7 Tehsil

Tehsil

A Tehsil or Tahsil/Tahasil , also known as Taluk and Mandal, is an administrative division of some country/countries of South Asia....

s in the Nandurbar district

Nandurbar District

Nandurbar is an administrative district in the northwest corner of Maharashtra state in India . On 1 July 1998 Dhule was bifurcated as two separate districts now known as Dhule and Nandurbar. The district headquarters are located at Nandurbar city...

, is a town situated in the northwest corner (Khandesh

Khandesh

Khandesh is a region of central India, which forms the northwestern portion of Maharashtra state.Khandesh was the terminal territorial part under the rule of Mughals. The Start of Deccan region demarcated by the boundary of Khandesh....

 Region) of Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

 state in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. Shahādā town was in Dhule District

Dhule district

Dhule district is a district of Maharashtra state in central India. The city of Dhule is the administrative headquarters of the district.The Dhule district previously comprised tracts of land predominantly inhabited by tribal population...

 until 1 July 1998. On 1 July 1998 Dhule district was divided to create Nandurbar District

Nandurbar District

Nandurbar is an administrative district in the northwest corner of Maharashtra state in India . On 1 July 1998 Dhule was bifurcated as two separate districts now known as Dhule and Nandurbar. The district headquarters are located at Nandurbar city...

.
Shahada is especially known for educational facilities and religious village Dakshin Kashi

Prakasha

Prakasha, popularly known as Dakshin Kashi, is a village situated on the bank of Tapi River in taluka Shahada in Nandurbar district, Maharashtra, India.-Demographics:...

 which is 15 km from Shahada.

History and demographics

Prakasha

Prakasha

Prakasha, popularly known as Dakshin Kashi, is a village situated on the bank of Tapi River in taluka Shahada in Nandurbar district, Maharashtra, India.-Demographics:...

 village, which is around 15 km south-west of Shahada, is the second most important excavation site in Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

. In 1955 B K Thapar on behalf of Archaeological Survey of India

Archaeological Survey of India

The Archaeological Survey of India is a department of the Government of India, attached to the Ministry of Culture . The ASI is responsible for archaeological studies and the preservation of archaeological heritage of the country in accordance with the various acts of the Indian Parliament...

 excavated site near confluence of Tapti River

Tapti River

The Tapi River ancient original name Tapi River , is a river in central India. It is one of the major rivers of peninsular India with a length of around 724 km...

 and Gomai River

Gomai River

Gomai River is tributary of Tapti River. It originates in Satpura Mountain Range and merge in Tapti River around 2 km east of Prakasha. Gomai river itself has many small tributary rivers like Susri river , Tipria river , Umri river, Sukhi river....

. Excavation exposed 17 meter deep occupational deposit - hammer stones, restricted use of copper

Copper

Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish...

, low grade bronze

Bronze

Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...

 dating back to 1700 BC. Around 6 km north of Shahada there are several centuries old sculptures complex in Gomai River. The main sculpture is popularly known as Mahavir sculpture and the entire sculptures complex is popularly known as Pandavleni

Pandavleni

Pandavleni, also known as Panch Pandav ancient rock-cut sculptures complex located at in Gomai River around 6 kilometer north of Shahada. The Pandavleni complex is in the bed of Gomai river carved in one solid rock. The Pandavleni is around 10 metres below the rest of terrain. There are rather...

 or 'Panch Pandav'. This evidence suggest that Shahada and area on the banks of Gomai River has been inhabited at least since 1700 BC. Shahada-Kukdel municipality was established in the British period, in the year 1869. As per 1961 the census population of Shahada was 13338.

India census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, Shahada had a population of 49,697, being 52% male and 48% female. Shahada has an average literacy rate of 71%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 77%, and female literacy is 65%. In Shahada, 14% of the population is under 6 years of age. Languages/dialects spoken in Shahada town and Nandurbar districts are Marathi

Marathi language

Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...

, Ahirani, Gujar

Gujjar

The Gurjar are an ethnic group in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Alternative spellings include Gurjara, Gujar, Gurjjara and Gūrjara. The spelling Gurjara or Gurjar is preferable to the rest....

, Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

.

Geography and climate

Shahada is on average 455 feet above sea level. As the Satpura Mountain Range just 30 km north of Shahada, the bedrock

Bedrock

In stratigraphy, bedrock is the native consolidated rock underlying the surface of a terrestrial planet, usually the Earth. Above the bedrock is usually an area of broken and weathered unconsolidated rock in the basal subsoil...

 is on an average 5 meters below the ground level. Due to natural or human-made underground caves, the ground at Savalde

Savalde

Savalde is a small village in Shahada taluka in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra state in India. Savalde village is situated around 5 km South-west of Shahada.-Village:...

 village, 5 km away from Shahada, caved in during heavy rain during August 2006 and caused an earthquake

Earthquake

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. The seismicity, seismism or seismic activity of an area refers to the frequency, type and size of earthquakes experienced over a period of time...

 of magnitude 2.8 on Richter Scale

Richter magnitude scale

The expression Richter magnitude scale refers to a number of ways to assign a single number to quantify the energy contained in an earthquake....

 on 10 November 2006. As seismograph stations are installed away from traffic to avoid false-positive results from ground vibrations, Shahada's seismograph station of the Sardar Sarovar Project is installed in the same village.

The soil above the bedrock

Bedrock

In stratigraphy, bedrock is the native consolidated rock underlying the surface of a terrestrial planet, usually the Earth. Above the bedrock is usually an area of broken and weathered unconsolidated rock in the basal subsoil...

 is good for farming except in some areas. Average rainfall is 552 mm. The climate is hot for most of the year. Maximum temperature reaches up to 48°C in summer and minimum temperature fall up to 9°C in the winter. The climate of Shahada is on the whole dry except during the south-west monsoon

Monsoon

Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea...

 season and winter months December to February. The year may be divided into four seasons. The cold season from December to February. Hot and dry season from March to June. The south-west monsoon season starts from the last week of June and last up to the end of September. The post-monsoon season October and November remains hot and dry.

Economy

Agriculture is the main occupation of the people. Sugarcane

Sugarcane

Sugarcane refers to any of six to 37 species of tall perennial grasses of the genus Saccharum . Native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South Asia, they have stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sugar, and measure two to six metres tall...

, banana

Banana

Banana is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa and for the fruit they produce. Bananas come in a variety of sizes and colors when ripe, including yellow, purple, and red....

s, cotton

Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective capsule, around the seeds of cotton plants of the genus Gossypium. The fiber is almost pure cellulose. The botanical purpose of cotton fiber is to aid in seed dispersal....

, maize

Maize

Maize known in many English-speaking countries as corn or mielie/mealie, is a grain domesticated by indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica in prehistoric times. The leafy stalk produces ears which contain seeds called kernels. Though technically a grain, maize kernels are used in cooking as a vegetable...

, jowar, wheat

Wheat

Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...

, etc. are the main crops harvested all year round. Villagers from nearby towns come to Shahada for shopping or health treatment. Hence Shahada town remains busy with many shopping markets. Major shopping markets are Purushottam Market No.1, Purushottam market No.2, 64 Gaala Market, Kashinathbhai Market, Pushpkamal Market, Shibaam market. Shahada town has branches of Government-owned banks - State Bank of India

State Bank of India

The State Bank of India is the largest Indian banking and financial services company with its headquarters in Mumbai, India. It is state-owned. The bank traces its ancestry to British India, through the Imperial Bank of India, to the founding in 1806 of the Bank of Calcutta, making it the oldest...

, Central Bank of India

Central Bank of India

Central Bank of India , a government-owned bank, is one of the oldest and largest commercial banks in India. It is based in Mumbai...

, Dena Bank

Dena Bank

Dena Bank is one of the earliest banks in India headquartered in Mumbai.-History:* Dena Bank was founded by the family of Devkaran Nanjee under the name Devkaran Nanjee Banking Company Ltd....

, Bank of India

Bank of India

Bank of India is a state-owned commercial bank with headquarters in Mumbai. Government-owned since nationalization in 1969, It is India's 4th largest bank, after State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank and Bank of Baroda. It has 3415 branches, including 29 branches outside India...

, Union Bank of India

Union Bank of India

Union Bank of India is one of India's largest state-owned banks , is listed on the Forbes 2000. It has assets of USD 13.45 billion and all the bank's branches have been networked with its 1135 ATMs. Its online Telebanking facility are available to all its Core Banking Customers - individual as...

. The reputed private bank, ICICI Bank

ICICI Bank

ICICI Bank Ltd. is India's second largest financial services company headquartered in Mumbai, India. It offers a wide range of banking products and financial services to corporate and retail customers through a variety of delivery channels and through its specialised subsidiaries in the areas of...

, has also its branch in Shahada town. Apart from these banks, there are few local bank. Dhule District Central Co-Operative (DDCC) Bank Ltd is notable among local banks and listed by Reserve Bank of India

Reserve Bank of India

The Reserve Bank of India is the central banking institution of India and controls the monetary policy of the rupee as well as US$300.21 billion of currency reserves. The institution was established on 1 April 1935 during the British Raj in accordance with the provisions of the Reserve Bank of...

. Only State Bank of India & Union Bank and ICICI Bank has automated teller machine

Automated teller machine

An automated teller machine or automatic teller machine, also known as a Cashpoint , cash machine or sometimes a hole in the wall in British English, is a computerised telecommunications device that provides the clients of a financial institution with access to financial transactions in a public...

s.

Life insurance cover is provided by life insurance companies. Life Insurance Corporation of India

Life Insurance Corporation of India

The Life Insurance Corporation of India is the largest state-owned life insurance company in India, and also the country's largest investor. It is fully owned by the Government of India. It also funds close to 24.6% of the Indian Government's expenses. It has assets estimated of...

, which has over 2048 branches in India, has its branch in Shahada town since August 1988. Private life insurance companies Reliance Life Insurance and SBI Life Insurance

State Bank of India

The State Bank of India is the largest Indian banking and financial services company with its headquarters in Mumbai, India. It is state-owned. The bank traces its ancestry to British India, through the Imperial Bank of India, to the founding in 1806 of the Bank of Calcutta, making it the oldest...

 has recently started life insurance business in Shahada.

Healthcare

Shahada town has many hospital

Hospital

A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....

s which can treat conditions including heart attack, accident

Accident

An accident or mishap is an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance, often with lack of intention or necessity. It implies a generally negative outcome which may have been avoided or prevented had circumstances leading up to the accident been recognized, and acted upon, prior to its...

s, etc.

Shahada Municipality makes sure that mosquito

Mosquito

Mosquitoes are members of a family of nematocerid flies: the Culicidae . The word Mosquito is from the Spanish and Portuguese for little fly...

-borne and water-borne disease

Disease

A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism. It is often construed to be a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs. It may be caused by external factors, such as infectious disease, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as autoimmune...

s do not spread in the town and that the town remains clean. There is a municipal hospital to treat poor people and emergency accident cases. Anti-venom injections are not available in any medical shop and it is not certain whether Municipal hospital have anti-venom injections in emergency cases. All compulsory vaccines for children are given by the municipal hospital.

Transport and communication

• Road: One can reach Shahada through Dhule
  Dhule
  Dhule is a city and a Municipal Corporation in Dhule district in northwestern part of Maharashtra state, India. It is one of the very few well-planned cities of India before Indian Independence.-Geography:Dhule is located at...
  
   (84 km away), which is well connected with the Dhule
  Dhule
  Dhule is a city and a Municipal Corporation in Dhule district in northwestern part of Maharashtra state, India. It is one of the very few well-planned cities of India before Indian Independence.-Geography:Dhule is located at...
  
  –Nandurbar
  Nandurbar
  Nandurbar is a city and a municipal council in Nandurbar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It came into limelight during February 2006 Bird Flu crisis which struck many of its poultry farms. Thousand of chickens from the farms had to be killed and buried in nearby grounds to stop the...
  
   road. From Dhule, one can reach Shahada by going straight on the Mumbai-Agra highway NH-3 (National Highway) to Songir (Dhule) and at Songir turn left and you will be on MSH-1 (Maharashtra State Highway). The distance from Mumbai is approximately 424 km.
• Railways: The nearest railway stations are Dondaicha (c. 30 km away) and Nandurbar
  Nandurbar
  Nandurbar is a city and a municipal council in Nandurbar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It came into limelight during February 2006 Bird Flu crisis which struck many of its poultry farms. Thousand of chickens from the farms had to be killed and buried in nearby grounds to stop the...
  
   (c. 35 km away). These stations are on Bhusawal
  Bhusawal
  Bhusawal or Bhusaval is a city and a municipal council in Jalgaon district in the state of Maharashtra, India.-Geography:Bhusawal is located at . It has an average elevation of 209 metres ....
  
  -Surat
  Surat
  Surat , also known as Suryapur, is the commercial capital city of the Indian state of Gujarat. Surat is India's Eighth most populous city and Ninth-most populous urban agglomeration. It is also administrative capital of Surat district and one of the fastest growing cities in India. The city proper...
  
   Railway line. This line is used by people for going to or coming from Gujarat
• Telephone: Until 1994 Shahada town had only one STD
  Subscriber trunk dialling
  Subscriber trunk dialling is a term for a telephone system allowing subscribers to dial trunk calls without operator assistance.- Terminology :...
  
   booth and landline telephone
  Telephone
  The telephone , colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that transmits and receives sounds, usually the human voice. Telephones are a point-to-point communication system whose most basic function is to allow two people separated by large distances to talk to each other...
  
   calls were limited to Shahada town only. Since 1995 the number of STD booths started growing and almost every road had an STD booth. Since year 2000, BSNL allowed landline calls to any place in Maharashtra. In the year 2005, BSNL started first cellphone tower. And by the end of year 2006, Shahada town has cellphone towers of almost all major mobile companies like AirTel
  Bharti Airtel
  Bharti Airtel Limited , commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian telecommunications company that operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa and the Channel Islands. It operates a GSM network in all countries, providing 2G or 3G services depending upon the country of operation...
  
  , Vodafone
  Vodafone Essar
  Vodafone Essar, formerly Hutchison Essar, is a cellular operator in India that covers 23 telecom circles in India. It is based in Mumbai. On July 2011, Vodafone Group agreed terms for the buy-out of its partner Essar from its Indian mobile phone business. The UK firm paid $5.46 billion to its...
  
  , BSNL, Idea
  Idea cellular
  Idea Cellular, usually referred to as Idea, is an Indian wireless telecom company based in Mumbai, India. Idea is the 3rd largest mobile services operator in India, in revenue terms, and recorded of over 98.4 million customers as of August 2011....
  
  , Reliance
  Reliance Communications
  Reliance Communications Ltd. is an Indian broadband and telecommunications company headquartered in Navi Mumbai, India. RCOM is the world's 16th largest mobile phone operator with over 144 million subscribers. Established on 2004, a subsidiary of the Reliance Group...
  
  , Tata. Due to increasing number of cellphones, STD booths and landline telephones are decreasing rapidly.
• Internet: Shahada town is well connected to Internet. Major Internet Service Provider
  Internet service provider
  An Internet service provider is a company that provides access to the Internet. Access ISPs directly connect customers to the Internet using copper wires, wireless or fiber-optic connections. Hosting ISPs lease server space for smaller businesses and host other people servers...
  
   is BSNL. Other cellphone companies like AirTel
  Bharti Airtel
  Bharti Airtel Limited , commonly known as Airtel, is an Indian telecommunications company that operates in 20 countries across South Asia, Africa and the Channel Islands. It operates a GSM network in all countries, providing 2G or 3G services depending upon the country of operation...
  
  , Reliance
  Reliance Communications
  Reliance Communications Ltd. is an Indian broadband and telecommunications company headquartered in Navi Mumbai, India. RCOM is the world's 16th largest mobile phone operator with over 144 million subscribers. Established on 2004, a subsidiary of the Reliance Group...
  
   also provide wireless GPRS facility to connect to Internet through cellphone and desktop computer. There are 5-6 Cyber cafe in Shahada town.

General information

• As most of the time of the year temperature remains above 40 degrees C, the daily life of Shahada town remain slow and lazy in the afternoon. Most of the people prefer shopping in the evening. Like all other towns in Maharashtra
  Maharashtra
  Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
  
  , power supply remains off daily for around six hours.
• The main source of entertainment of Shahada town is television
  Television
  Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
  
  . Most of the channels can be seen through cable network
  Cable network
  A cable channel is a television channel available via cable television. Such channels are usually also available via satellite television, including direct broadcast satellite providers such as DirecTV, Dish Network and BSkyB...
  
   and satellite dish
  Satellite dish
  A satellite dish is a dish-shaped type of parabolic antenna designed to receive microwaves from communications satellites, which transmit data transmissions or broadcasts, such as satellite television.-Principle of operation:...
  
  . Shahada town has only two cinema
  Movie theater
  A movie theater, cinema, movie house, picture theater, film theater is a venue, usually a building, for viewing motion pictures ....
  
  s, named Manoranjan and Yashwant. As the theatre has satellite receiver and projector, people can see movies on the day of release. Almost every Hollywood blockbuster movie, dubbed in Hindi, makes it to the theatre.
• This otherwise sleepy town becomes alive during festivals like Navratri, Dipawali, Holi
  Holi
  Holi , is a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus. Holi is also known as festival of Colours. It is primarily observed in India, Nepal, Pakistan, and countries with large Indic diaspora populations following Hinduism, such as Suriname, Malaysia, Guyana, South Africa, Trinidad, United...
  
  , Ganesh Utsav, Eid
  Eid ul-Fitr
  Eid ul-Fitr, Eid al-Fitr, Id-ul-Fitr, or Id al-Fitr , often abbreviated to Eid, is a Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting . Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity," while Fiṭr means "breaking the fast"...
  
  . As there are few Christians in Shahada town, Christmas
  Christmas
  Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...
  
   is celebrated at the missionary area but remains unnoticed to people in the town.
• Several of North Maharashtra University
  North Maharashtra University
  North Maharashtra University was established on August 15, 1990 after separating it from the parent University of Pune.http://www.nmu.ac.in/profile/aspx/profile.aspx...
  
  's professor
  Professor
  A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
  
  s live in Shahada.

Education

There are many college

College

A college is an educational institution or a constituent part of an educational institution. Usage varies in English-speaking nations...

s and school

School

A school is an institution designed for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is commonly compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools...

s in Shahādā:

• Engineering
  Engineering
  Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
  
   College of Shahada, an A+ grade college, being part of North Maharashtra University
  North Maharashtra University
  North Maharashtra University was established on August 15, 1990 after separating it from the parent University of Pune.http://www.nmu.ac.in/profile/aspx/profile.aspx...
  
  .
• Belonging to Poojya Sane Guruji Vidya Prasarak Mandal:
  • D.N. Patel College of Engineering
    Engineering
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    :
  • G.M. Chaudhari Polytechnic

• • College of Pharmacy
    Pharmacy
    Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemical sciences and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of pharmaceutical drugs...
    
    
  • College of Management
    Management
    Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
    
    
  • College of Horticulture
    Horticulture
    Horticulture is the industry and science of plant cultivation including the process of preparing soil for the planting of seeds, tubers, or cuttings. Horticulturists work and conduct research in the disciplines of plant propagation and cultivation, crop production, plant breeding and genetic...
    
    

• • College of Education
    Education
    Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
    
     (B. Ed and D. Ed)
  • College of Science
    Science
    Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
    
    , Arts
    ARts
    aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
    
     and Commerce
    Commerce
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• Two other Junior Colleges:
  • Vikas (Kai. Sau. G.F.Patil) Junior College
  • Municipal Corporation Junior College
• Shri Saibaba Bhakta Mandals
  • Junior College of Education, Mhasawad Tal: Shahada
• T S K V S Commerce College
• ST Co-op Educational Society's, Shahada
  • College of Science
    Science
    Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
    
     and Arts
    ARts
    aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
    
    
  • Junior College of Education
    Education
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• Vasant Dada College

• Satpuda Shikshan Prasarak Mandals.
  • College of Arts Mahila, Shahada
  • Vasantrao Naik Arts & Science College, Shahada
  • Vasantrao Naik Junior College, Shahada
• Mahatma Gandhi Shikshan Prasarak Mandals
  • Adhyapak Vidyalaya
• Kalpataru Shaikshanik Seva Mandals
  • Junior College of Education
    Education
    Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
    
    
  • College of Arts
    ARts
    aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
    
    
• There are also three or four English medium schools in Shahada.
  • Chavra
  • S. A. Mission
• There are many good Marathi
  Marathi language
  Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...
  
   schools also.

Religion

• Mandirs in Shahada town: There are many mandirs in Shahada. The most devoted mandir is 'Saptashrungi Nivasini Mataji Mandir'. Hundreds of people visit this mandir every day. Especially during Navratri and Vijayadashami
  Vijayadashami
  Vijayadashami also known as Dasara, is one of the most important festivals celebrated in various forms, across India, Nepal and Bangladesh...
  
   thousands of people visit this mandir. Another beautiful recently constructed mandir is 'Ambaji Mata Mandir'.
• Prakasha
  Prakasha
  Prakasha, popularly known as Dakshin Kashi, is a village situated on the bank of Tapi River in taluka Shahada in Nandurbar district, Maharashtra, India.-Demographics:...
  
  , one of the famous religious places, also known as Dakshin Kashi, is also in this Tehsil
  Tehsil
  A Tehsil or Tahsil/Tahasil , also known as Taluk and Mandal, is an administrative division of some country/countries of South Asia....
  
  . The temple
  Temple
  A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur. It has the same root as the word "template," a plan in preparation of the building that was marked out...
  
   of Prakasha is very old.
• One of the famous temples of the god Shree Ganesha (Heramb) is at Jaynagar, 24 km away from Shahādā. Hundreds of thousands of people visit on the occasion of Mangli Chathurthi.
• Datta temple
  Temple
  A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur. It has the same root as the word "template," a plan in preparation of the building that was marked out...
  
   is at Sarangkheda
  Sarangkheda
  Sarangkheda is a village in Shahada taluka in Nandurbar district of Maharashtra state in India. Sarangkheda village is situated around 15 km South of Shahada on the bank of Tapti River.- Overview :...
  
  . Every year a big fair
  Fair
  A fair or fayre is a gathering of people to display or trade produce or other goods, to parade or display animals and often to enjoy associated carnival or funfair entertainment. It is normally of the essence of a fair that it is temporary; some last only an afternoon while others may ten weeks. ...
  
   is organised there.
• Hingani is a small village between Shahādā and Shirpur
  Shirpur
  Shirpur is a city and taluka in Dhule district of Nashik Division, Maharashtra. It is located on National Highway 3, which runs from Agra in Uttar Pradesh to Mumbai, Maharashtra. The Arunawati river flows through the city. Shirpur is just 50 kilometers away from the city of Dhule...
  
  . People there conduct the Mahavakya and Mahakavya
  Mahakavya
  Mahākāvya , also known as sargabandha, is a genre of Indian epic poetry in classical Sanskrit literature. The genre is characterised by ornate and elaborate descriptions of scenery, love, battles and so on — in short, everything that tests a poet's skill at description...
  
   of the Mahanubhav
  Mahanubhava
  Mahanubhav- Hindu sects in maharashtra mainly in amaravati district started by Chakradhar Swami in 1267. Chakradhar Swami propagated a religious movement as well as social movement, in which all were accepted irrespective of their castes and the traditional ritualistic religion was...
  
   panth
  Panth
  Panthan is the term used for several religious traditions in India.A panth is founded by a guru or an acharya, and is often led by scholars or senior practitioners of the tradition.Some of the major panthas in India are:...
  
  . See Hinagani Panchayat.
• There are Pandava leni
  Leni
  Leni is a comune and one of the main towns on Salina, one of the Aeolian Islands. It is situated in the Province of Messina in the Italian region Sicily, located about 140 km northeast of Palermo and about 70 km northwest of Messina...
  
   in the Gomai River at Shahada.
• Damerkheda - situated on the bank of the Gomai river, 10 km from Shahada on the Nandurbar road with the very fabulous structure of Ashtavinayak Ganesh temple

Industry

Shahādā has:

• A sugar mill, oil mill
• A paper mill
  Paper mill
  A paper mill is a factory devoted to making paper from vegetable fibres such as wood pulp, old rags and other ingredients using a Fourdrinier machine or other type of paper machine.- History :...
  
  , Croft Paper Mill, particle board plant
• A wine
  Wine
  Wine is an alcoholic beverage, made of fermented fruit juice, usually from grapes. The natural chemical balance of grapes lets them ferment without the addition of sugars, acids, enzymes, or other nutrients. Grape wine is produced by fermenting crushed grapes using various types of yeast. Yeast...
  
   distillery, ice
  Ice
  Ice is water frozen into the solid state. Usually ice is the phase known as ice Ih, which is the most abundant of the varying solid phases on the Earth's surface. It can appear transparent or opaque bluish-white color, depending on the presence of impurities or air inclusions...
  
   and carbon dioxide
  Carbon dioxide
  Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring chemical compound composed of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to a single carbon atom...
  
   factory
• A cotton mill
  Cotton mill
  A cotton mill is a factory that houses spinning and weaving machinery. Typically built between 1775 and 1930, mills spun cotton which was an important product during the Industrial Revolution....
  
  
• An ethyl alcohol factory
• Chemical factories
• A maker of enzyme
  Enzyme
  Enzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions. In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at the beginning of the process, called substrates, are converted into different molecules, called products. Almost all chemical reactions in a biological cell need enzymes in order to occur at rates...
  
   additive ingredient for animal feed
  Compound feed
  Compound feeds are feedstuffs that are blended from various raw materials and additives. These blends are formulated according to the specific requirements of the target animal...
  
  
• There also some proposed cooperative industrial estates coming into Shahada taluka at Mohide and Amode villages.

Other notable places in or near Shahādā

• Toranmal
  Toranmal
  Toranmal is an Hill Station in the municipal council of the Nandurbar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. One can reach through Shahada. It is a hill station located in the Satpura Range. Its Gorakhnath Temple is the site of a Yatra attended by thousands of devotees on Mahashivratri...
  
   is the 2nd coolest hill station
  Hill station
  A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley. The term was used mostly in colonial Asia , but also in Africa , for towns founded by European colonial rulers as refuges from the summer heat, up where temperatures are cooler...
  
   in Maharashtra
  Maharashtra
  Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
  
   state and is near Shahādā (approx. 40 km). It is the second highest place in Maharashtra
  Maharashtra
  Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
  
  , and its coolest place; there is the Yashwant Lake which is natural and full of flowering lotus
  Lotus (plant)
  Lotus identifies various plant taxa:* Nelumbo, a genus of aquatic plants with showy flowers** Nelumbo nucifera, the Sacred or Indian lotus** Nelumbo lutea, the American or Yellow lotus...
  
  ; many people think that it is one of the best place for holidays.
• Unapdev
  Unapdev
  Unapdev is in Shahada, Maharashtra tahsil located near the village Dara. It has a permanent natural hot water source.-Approach :...
  
   (25 km from Shahādā) is a pleasant picnic
  Picnic
  In contemporary usage, a picnic can be defined simply as a pleasure excursion at which a meal is eaten outdoors , ideally taking place in a beautiful landscape such as a park, beside a lake or with an interesting view and possibly at a public event such as before an open air theatre performance,...
  
   point in Shahādā tahsil. It is famous for a permanent natural hot water source
  Hot spring
  A hot spring is a spring that is produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater from the Earth's crust. There are geothermal hot springs in many locations all over the crust of the earth.-Definitions:...
  
  , which always flows even in hot summer. It always had water coming from a structure in the shape like a cow's mouth, until the river side structure was destroyed partially by a flood caused by a heavy rainfall in the region in June 2007.