Sonkhed is a village in Loha taluka of

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state of

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Demography

Sonkhed is a village with total 1100 families residing. The Sonkhed village has population of 5995 of which 3110 are males while 2885 are females as per Population Census 2011. Average Sex Ratio of Sonkhed village is 928 which is lower than Maharashtra state average of 929. Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 15.60% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 0.53% of total population in Sonkhed village. Sonkhed village has lower literacy rate compared to Maharashtra. In 2011, literacy rate of Sonkhed village was 78.08% compared to 82.34% of Maharashtra. In Sonkhed Male literacy stands at 86.13% while female literacy rate was 69.49%.

Transport

It is located 22 km towards South from District headquarters

Nanded Nanded is a city in Maharashtra state, India. It is the tenth largest city in the state and the seventy-ninth most populous city in India. It is the second largest city in Marathwada region. It is the district headquarters of Nanded distric ...

. 16 km from Loha. 536 km from State capital

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. There is no railway station in Sonkhed, nearest railway stations are Wanegaon(17 km), Limbgaon(18 km),

(19 km). Nearest airport Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji Airport, Nanded is 22 km away.

Politics

Sonkhed comes under Nanded South for

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. Current member of

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representing Sonkhed is

Hemant Sriram Patil Hemant Sriram Patil (born 16 December 1970) is a Shiv Sena politician from Nanded district, Marathwada. He is a member of the 17th Lok Sabha The 17th Lok Sabha was formed by the members elected in the 2019 Indian general election. Elec ...

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena ( IAST: ''Śiva Sēnā'') () was a right-wing to far-right Marathi regionalist and Hindu ultranationalist political party in India founded in 1966 by cartoonist Bal Thackeray. Originally emerging from nativist movements in Bom ...

since 2014. While it comes under Nanded (Lok Sabha constituency) for Indian general elections. Current member of parliament representing Sonkhed is Ashok Chavan of

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who is also former Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

Culture

Wednesday is the day of weekly market in Sonkhed, hundreds of people from surrounding villages comes to Sonkhed on weekly market day. Well known ''Maroti Temple'' lie in centre of market place while other temples includes temple of ''

Sant Tukaram Sant Tukaram Maharaj (Marathi pronunciation: ̪ukaːɾam was a 17th-century Marathi poet, Hindu ''sant'' (saint), popularly known as Tuka, Tukobaraya, Tukoba in Maharashtra. He was a Sant of Varkari sampradaya (Marathi-Vaishnav tradition) - ...

'', Goddess ''Satvaai'' or ''Sataamai'', Goddess ''Marimaai''. Besides market place there is grand Mosque for Muslims while Sonkhed also have a Buddhist Vihara which is known as ''Samaaj Mandir''. Most of marriages of local Buddhist people takes place at this ''Samaaj Mandir''.

Institutions

Sonkhed is one of major village in

. It has Primary health centre and Police station, both of which covers 40-60 surrounding small villages. Sonkhed have facility of education till graduation level and students from surrounding small villages come to Sonkhed for studies.

References

{{reflist Villages in Nanded district