Niphad
Niphad is the name both of the town and the Taluka
headquartered there. It is within the Nashik District of
Maharashtra, India. The Marathi name signies a place
without mountains, and indeed the talukas topography
is fairly level, with hardly any hills. It is served by Niphad
railway station.Niphads latitude and longitude coordi-
nates are 2050N 7470E / 20.08333N 74.11667E.
Located northeast of Nashik city, the Taluka borders
Sinnar, Nashik, Dindori, Chandwad, and Yeola Talukas
and Ahmednagar District, and has no direct access to the
sea. The Niphad Sub-Division is composed of Niphad,
Sinnar and Yeola Talukas.
Niphad stationboard
Niphad platformboard
1 Niphad Town
About 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Nasik, the town lies
on the NashikAurangabad Highway and has a station on
the MumbaiNagpur section of the Central Railway. Al-
though facilities in the surrounding villages are improv-
ing, the town remains the local transportation and com-
munication hub as well as the seat of government and law
enforcement, with additional district courts serving the
Niphad, Yeola and Pimpalgaon Baswant courts. Niphad
is also the center for medical and veterinary care, trade,
banking (with State Bank of India, Bank Of Maharashtra,
Oriental Bank of Commerce, Corporation Bank, State
Bank of Hyderabad, HDFC Bank, Land Development
Bank branches and many Co-operative Banks. It is also
a center for education, with high schools, junior colleges,
senior colleges, government ITI and other technical Insti-
tutes.
2 Religious sites
Niphad Town is home to a number of Hindu temples ded-
icated to various deities, as well as to a Dargah and a few
mosques. A traditional fair in honour of Shree Khandoba
(not to be confused with another Khandoba fair in Chan-
dori in the Taluka) is held on Magha Shuddha Paurnima
and attracts a large number of people from the surround-
ing areas.
3 Flora and fauna
Agrarian Niphad is one of the districts most fertileand
ood-pronetalukas. Its major rivers are the Godavari
and its tributary, the Kadawa; as of 1975 irrigation was
achieved by means of the Vadali river dam, bandhara,
near the taluka, in addition to well over a hundred
wells.Sugarcane is one of the most important agricul-
tural products and the basis for a sugar rening and
alcohol distilling industry, conducted at two co-operative
sugar factories, the Niphad Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana
in Bhausahebnagar and the Karmaveer Kakasaheb Wagh
Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana in Kakasahebnagar. Ma-
jor wine producers in the Vinchur MIDC area are the
Vinsura and Vinsula wineries.Other major crops include
onions, grapes, soybean, tomatoes and owers, all ex-
ported internationally, as well as wheat, gram, and other
vegetables and grains (bajra, jovar, tur). Niphad is the
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largest grape processing location in India.

4 Demographics
In the 2001 census, the niphad total population was 16322

5 References
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