Pisore Khand is a
Town Panchayat (T.P.)
A nagar panchayat (town panchayat; ) or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,000 ...
in the
Shrigonda taluka
Shrigonda Taluka, is a taluka in Karjat subdivision of Ahmednagar District in Maharashtra State of India. Its administrative headquarters is the town of Shrigonda.
Area
The table below shows area of the taluka by land type.
Villages
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block of the
Ahmednagar district
Ahmednagar district (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, ™É¦(É™)mÉ™d̪nəɡəɾ is the largest districts of Maharashtra, district of Maharashtra state in western India. The historical Ahmednagar city is the headquarters of the district. ...
in the Indian State of
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...
. The original name of the village was Pisore, but this name was changed to Pisore Khand to distinguish it from another village in the same block. A historical palace remains, built by Ahilyabai Holker of the Holker Family of King
Pan Pohi.
Geography
Its area was 1348 hectares. Pisore Khand is surrounded by hills to the east and north and open land to its west and south. Surrounding villages include Bhangaon to the west, Takali to the east; Khandgaon to the north and Devulgaon to the south.
The village contains seven ponds built by the government as part of the Rural Employment Plan enacted during the 1972 drought.
Temples
Pisore Khand includes two ancient temples: the Kongjai temple on Kongjai Hill, situated to the north of the village; and Nawlai on the Hill of Nawlai, east of the village. Bhairavnath temple, Maruti temple, shiva Temple, Vitthal Rukhmini Temple in Village while Khakibaba Darga situated at boundry of Pisore Khand at the bottom of Hill.
Demographics
At the time of the 2001 census, 426 families lived in the village, comprising a total population of 2207 (1124 males and 1083 females). The population of children aged zero to six was 292 (135 male and 155 female). Children aged zero to six make up 13.23% of the total population of the village.
References
External links
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Poona India, Map
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Villages in Ahmednagar district
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