NANDED DISTRICT – REPORT

LOCATION
Nanded city is located at 18°30' North latitude and 77°10' East longitude at about 489 meters above mean
sea level. It is about 260 km each from Aurangabad and Hyderabad and about 300 km from Nagpur.
LOCATION AND EVOLUTION OF CITY
BORDER & BOUNDARIES
The district of Nanded lies in the border of Maharashtra and shares boundaries with Yavatmal District in
the north, Parbhani, Latur and Osmanabad Districts in the west, Bidar District of Karnataka in the south
and Nizamabad & Adilabad Districts of Andhra Pradesh in the east.
HISTORY

• Even though Nanded is only mentioned in historical accounts since 4th century, the evidence of human habitation in this area has been found for the past 40
to 50 thousand years.
• It is the second largest city in Marathwada subdivision. Nanded is the center of governance of Nanded district. Nanded is a major destination for Sikh
pilgrims, because the 10th Sikh Guru (Guru Gobind Singh) made Nanded his permanent abode and passed his guruship to the Guru Granth Sahib before his
death in 1708.
• Malegaon Yatra dedicated to Lord Khandoba in Malegaon taluka is considered one of biggest in south India. Merchants from all India come here to buy or
sell animals like horse, camel, sheep, goats, cow, dog etc.

HISTORY AND TIMELINE

 RELIGION IN %
POPULATION % OF NANDED CITY IN 2011 -
550,439

SEX RATIO-
MALE- 285,433. FEMALE -265,006

LITERACY RATE OF MALE AND

FEMALE IN %

POPULATION BY AGE GROUP

CHILD (0-6) ADULTS AND ELDERLY- 87.07

12.93 % %

POPULATION & POPULATION DENSITY

MAHARASHTRA 2001

96,878,627 315 112,374,333 365

POPULATION DENSITY/KM2 POPULATION DENSITY/KM2

43,0733 6810 55,0439 8700

POPULATION DENSITY/KM2 POPULATION DENSITY/KM2

NANDED 2001

CLIMATE AND POPULATION

A few selected miscellaneous occupations are There are also Small scale
analyzed to show the socio-economic set-up of Industries some are as follows:
the district with special reference to Nanded 1) Fertilizer factories.
town. 2) Pipes and hardware parts.
3) Furniture.
1) Hotels and Restaurants, 4) Beauty Product
2) Flour Mills, 5) Food.
3) Hair-dressing saloons and barbers, 6) Grain Parching
4) Tailoring firms, 7) Food Industries
5) Pan-bidi shops, 8) Chemical industries.
6) Frame makers, etc. 9) Automobile industries.
7) Flour mills 10)Textile Industries.
8) Bakery 11)Electronic.
9) Medical teaching professionals 12)Construction Company.
10) Watch, radio repairing 13)Trading Companies.
11) Bicycle shops 14)Plastic, Leather industry
12) Lodging and boarding houses

OCCUPATION
 AREA DEVELOPMENT WITH YEARS
Area Development with years
Old town

New town

PROJECTS ACTING LIKE MAGNETS

Road network –
• The transportation infrastructure includes a railway station and a bus terminal
• There is an airstrip, upgrading with the help of Maharashtra Industrial Development
Corporation (MIDC)be No designated or designed parking facilities in the city and a
parking policy and facilitate provision of adequate parking facilities needs to be evolved.

The Guru Gobind Singhji

Airport
250km
radius

450km radius

Maltekdi sahib railway

junction NH 161

NH 361

Legend

30M ROW

24M ROW

18M ROW CONNECTIVITY

15M ROW

22M ROW