Baramati
Baramati is a city and a municipal council in Pune district in the state of Maharashtra, India. It is also the home town of the famous marathi Poet Kavivarya Moropant and former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and former Union Minister, Sharad Pawar.
Baramati is located at. It has an average elevation of 538 meters.
Population
The population of Baramati as per the census of 2019 is 429,600.Economy
Industries in Baramati vary from textile to dairy and food products. Similarly, there are many foreign companies in Baramati like Piaggio, Ferrero and Dynamix Dairy, Baramati. The oldest plant in Baramati MIDC is the Kalyani Steels. Likewise, recent additions to the list of industries are Bharat Forge, Ferrero Rocher, and Bauli India.Baramati and surrounding areas mostly depend on agriculture as the main source of income. The land in the region is moderately irrigated because of the Nira Left Canal irrigation from the Veer Dam. Nira River and Karha River also provide direct irrigation water to the farms.
Drinking water is also sourced from this canal. Additionally, Municipal Council also receives drinking water from Ujjani Dam through a pipeline.
Main crops include Sugarcane, Grapes, Jowar, Cotton and Wheat. Grapes and Sugar are exported from here. There is a huge marketplace for cotton and food grains in the city.
As the main crop of Baramati is sugarcane, there are three co-operative sugar factories viz.
1. The Someshwar Co-operative Sugar Factory, Someshwarnagar,
2. Shri Chhatrapati Co-operative Sugar Factory, Bhavaninagar 3. The Malegaon Co-operative Sugar Factory, Malegaon.
Apart from agriculture, Baramati is home to a lot of industries which range from Steel Processing to Winemaking.
Baramati is home to the three-wheeler plant of the Italian company Piaggio. The construction of a two-wheeler plant is completed, 150,000 Vespa scooters are produced annually with the initial investment.
Baramati uses 800 hectares of land as MIDC Industrial Area along Baramati-Bhigwan Road, 5 km outside the town's municipal limits. Baramati MIDC has several major companies like Bharat Forge Ltd, ISMT Limited, Imsofer, Senvion, Schreiber Dynamix Dairies Ltd., Piaggio Vehicles Private Limited, Godfrey Phillips etc. and is home of many small scale industries.
Baramati MIDC has a Baramati Hi-Tech Textile Park Ltd., set up over a sprawling 60-acres of land which houses small domestic garment manufacturers, consisting of a comprehensive group of textile oriented units specializing in functions such as garment-making, Apparel Printing & Packaging, Home Furnishing, Embroidery and Technical textile within the Textile Park. It also has a series of smaller units available as ancillary support units.
Baramati has an airstrip near MIDC.
Climate
Transport
Baramati is well connected by road with major cities in the State. It is 100 km from Pune by road. It connects to major highways via the road network. Baramati is also well connected by the rail network to Pune via Daund Junction. Baramati has two bus stands, with main bus stand located at the Indapur road. Baramati bus depot provides buses to school children.Baramati has an airport which currently hosts a Flying School.
Education
was started in 2019 in MIDC area.Baramati and the surrounding area hosts several colleges. Vidya Pratishthan offers courses from primary education to master's degrees. It is affiliated to Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune MS India. Vidyanagari has a Law College, College of Engineering, School of Bio Technology, Institute of Information Technology, MBA, MCA apart from Primary School and Arts, Commerce, Science College. Tuljaram Chaturchand College has a junior and a senior college. The senior college provides graduation in science, commerce and arts.
Government Industrial Training Institute in the Malegaon Bk. Industrial areas of Baramati, Jejuri, Bhigvan & Kurkumbh is near Baramati City.
offers dedicated college for girls. Courses in Shardanagar includes basic graduation, Junior College, Agri College, BCA, Home Science, B.Voc., Post graduation in Organic Chemistry, Microbiology, Psychology, M.Com., Nursing, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pre- primary, Primary, Secondary School, Bachelor's degree in Education etc.KVK is one of the Central Government Institute situated at Shardanagar, which provides agricultural facilities and demonstrations to farmers.
The Malegaon Sugar Factories's , Malegaon offers a wide range of Technology and Management Courses.
The campus has an Engineering College, a Management Institute, a Pharmacy College and College of Commerce, Science & Computer Education.
Baramati also has one Technical High-school, R. N. Agarwal Technical high-school, which offers different technical courses like carpentry, wiring, welding, engineering drawing, computer science and many other courses which are useful to make one's engineering base strong enough at the school level and to make it more easier to understand engineering courses.
The construction of Medical College is located on way near Baramati club, Bhigwan road.
The city has an M.E.S. High school of 100 years old. Founded by Freedom Fighter Vasudev Balavant Fadake on March 3, 1911, the school celebrated its 100-year completion in 2011. On the way of Patas road, the Shri Chhatrapati Shahu Highschool & Jr. College, Baramati is located where Shri. Sharad Pawar studied for one year in the 8th standard. Shree Chhatrapati Shahu Highschool & Jr. College, Baramati established by Padmbhushan Dr Karmveer Bhaurao Patil in 1954, combined with the Shahu Boarding.
Sant Tukaram Maharaj Prathamik Vidyalay Dorlewadi. This school is located in Rural area. It is located in Dorlewadi, BARAMATI block of PUNE district of Maharashtra.
Founder Of Sant Tukaram Maharaj Prathamik Vidyalay Dorlewadi Is Mahadeo Kale. Sant Tukaram Maharaj Prathamik Vidyalay is an ISO certified School.
The city hosts an agriculture development radio channel, the first of its type in India named Vasundhara Krishi Vahini. This provides the farmers with reliable information on climate, plant nutrition, production seeds, fertilizers, market, new trends, etc. Another radio channel named "Sharada Krishi Vahini" hosted by Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Baramati launched in January 2011 for the same purpose.
Few kilometres away from Baramati, near to Malegaon Khurd, is home to the National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management.
Places to visit
Shri Mayureshwar Mandir
Shri Mayureshwar Mandir or Shri Moreshwar Mandir also known as Morgaon Ganpati is a Hindu temple dedicated to Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed god of wisdom. It is located in Morgaon Baramati in Pune District, about 35 km away from Baramati city in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The temple is the starting and ending point of a pilgrimage of the eight revered Ganesha temples called Ashtavinayaka.Bhigwan bird sanctuary
Bhigwan is a small town 25 km from Baramati. It can be reached from Bhigwan by state transport bus from Baramati. Bhigwan bird sanctuary is 10 km away from Bhigwan town but it is difficult to reach by public transportation. There are two places with several type of migratory birds: Diksal and Kumbhargaon. There is a dam called Ujani. The backwater is spread in nearest parts of the villages. These birds can be found around this backwater area of Diksal. Diksal is 7 km away from Bhigwan. Small fishing boats can be hired for watching more birds. An outdoor activity where tourists look for pink flamingos and more at the Bhigwan bird sanctuary on a full-day tour from Pune. In addition to seeing a variety of India's bird species, visit the historic Bhuleshwar Temple along the way.The Janvastu Sangrahalaya /Museum
The two-stored museum holds a collection of gifts received by eminent Indian politician, Sharad Pawar during his long career in public service. The museum also has a collection of photographs that chronicles the public life of Mr. Sharad Pawar.Krishi Vigyan Kendra Baramati
Agricultural center situated in Malegaon about 7 km from Baramati. NIASM at Malegaon Khurd, Baramati. It also has agri-tourism, and people from outside of Baramati can visit KVK.Narli Bag
Awesome river side with natural beauty located at Sangavi beside river Nira. It is Sangavi's one of the famous "Youth Organization"Shri Shirsai Mandir
Shri Shirsai Mandir is a Hindu temple dedicated to Goddess Shirsai. It is located in Shirsuphal, Baramati in Pune District, about 27.4 km from Baramati city in the Indian state of Maharashtra. There are many Monkeys in this temple as well as in this village Shirsuphal.This village is also called as "Monkeys Village".
Shri Janai Mandir
Shri Janai Mandir is a Hindu temple dedicated to Goddess Janai. It is located in Katphal, Baramati in Pune District, about 7 km from Baramati city in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
Notable people
- Moreshwar Ramchandra Paradkar, popularly known in Maharashtra as Moropant or Mayur Pandit, was born in Baramati. He was a Karhade Brahmin Marathi poet who was the last among those classified by Marathi literary scholars as pandit poets.
- Kumar Patel - Inventor of the CO2-laser, was born in Baramati. He developed the carbon dioxide laser in 1963; it is now widely used in industry for cutting and welding, as a laser scalpel in surgery, and in laser skin resurfacing. Patel currently holds 36 U.S. patents relating to lasers and laser applications. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Science, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, the American Physical Society, the IEEE, the Optical Society of America, the Laser Institute of America, and the American Society of Laser Medicine India.
- Nathuram Godse – a right-wing advocate of Hindu nationalism who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi in New Delhi on January 30, 1948 was also born in Baramati.
- Sharad Govindrav Pawar is an Indian politician who serves as the president of the Nationalist Congress Party which he founded in 1999, after separating from the Indian National Congress. He previously served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on three separate occasions and held the posts of Minister of Defence and Minister of Agriculture in the Government of India. He is a member of the Rajya Sabha where he leads the NCP delegation. He holds a position of prominence in national politics as well as the regional politics of Maharashtra.
- Ajit Anantrao Pawar is an Indian politician who served as the deputy chief minister of Maharashtra. He is the nephew of Sharad Pawar, the chief of Nationalist Congress Party.
- Supriya Sule is an Indian politician from the Nationalist Congress Party and currently a Member of Parliament in the 17th Lok Sabha. She is the daughter of the President of the Nationalist Congress Party, Sharad Pawar. In 2009, she contested the elections for the Baramati Lok Sabha constituency and won. This constituency was previously represented by her father. She is a Member of Parliament, representing Maharashtra in the Lok Sabha.