Karanja Ghadge is a
Tehsil town under Subdivision
Arvi and is
taluka(code 4961) in
Wardha district in the
Indian
state of
Maharashtra
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.
Karanja is situated at
National Highway 53 (India) or
Asian Highway (AH46) or
National Highway 6 (India, old numbering). It's 76 km away from
Nagpur and 75 km away from
Amravati and 70 km away from
Wardha and is almost at the centre of
Metropolis Cities and so tourists, travellers, buses, travels tends to take rest. Near about 60 gram panchayat and 102 villages come under the
Tehsil. Most of the Citizens are
Hindus. Other than
Hindus,
Buddhists
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and
Muslims have also organized. In Hinduism, most of the people belong to the caste
KshatriyaBhoyar Pawar. Tribals like
Gond are also in large numbers. All the festival like
Holi,
Diwali
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,
Dasara,
Pola,
Ganesh Utsav,
Chhatrapati Shivaji maharaj Jayanti
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are all celebrated.
In the year 2015, Karanja became a
Nagar Panchayat.
The MahaOrange Plant
The MahaOrange Plant situated 2.5 km away from Karanja Ghadge is a facility for exporting
Oranges and other fruits like
Banana
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. It was active before 2009-2010 and used to export oranges but due to some unknown circumstances, the plant shut down, and so the plant was non-functional for many years and, hence, yes, it was a challenge.Though it has all major facilities for preparing the fruit for the export, it doesn't have a processing unit attached to it.It has facilities for
grading,
wax-coating of fruit,
pre- cooling and
cold storage facilities.But none of these units in the plant were functional.Hence, when Mahaorange took over the plant on January 2015, Shridhar Thakre tol
MSMABto first repair the plant as said t
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Cities and towns in Wardha district
Wardha district
Talukas in Maharashtra
Golibar Chowk Incident
Golibar Chowk is one of the main square in Karanja Ghadge, situated near Bus Stop. The name of the square is derived due to one of the incident regarding Gunfire
The गोळीमार or golimar(Gunfire) incident is one of the incident happened in Karanja Ghadge⁽ᴹᵒʳᵉ ᶜᶦᵗᵃᵗᶦᵒⁿ ⁿᵉᵉᵈᵉᵈ⁾.
References
[{{cite web , url=https://timesofindia.com/city/nagpur/successful-orange-export-due-to-support-of-farmers-and-entrepreneurs/articleshow/51664103.cms, title= The MahaOrangePlant reference 1, accessdate=2023-01-22 ]