Maval taluka is a

taluka A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

in Mawal subdivision of

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of state of

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in India. At the time of the

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, the taluka comprised 187 villages, a figure that was unchanged from 2001. There were also three

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s at that time - Wadagaon, Khadkale and Kusgaon Budruk. The census towns had their own governing bodies, whilst the

gram panchayat Gram Panchayat () is a basic village-governing institute in Indian villages. It is a democratic structure at the grass-roots level in India. It is a political institute, acting as cabinet of the village. The Gram Sabha work as the general bod ...

s which governed the villages numbered 100; there were two villages - Ahirvade and

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- which had no official governing body.

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