Naigaon, Nanded

Naigaon
Town
Naigaon Location in Maharashtra, India
Coordinates: 18°50′47″N 77°31′50″E
Country	India
State	Maharashtra
District	Nanded district
Government
• Type	Nagar Panchayat
• Body	Naigaon Nagar Panchayat
Elevation	358 m (1,175 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	22,208
Demonym	Naigaonkar
Language
• Official	Marathi
Time zone	UTC 5:30 (IST)
Telephone code	02465
Vehicle registration	MH-26

Naigaon is a town and taluka in Nanded district of Maharashtra state in India. Naigaon (Bz.) is located 41.2 km south of the district headquarters city of Nanded and 60 km west from neighboring city of Nizamabad in Telangana State. Naigaon lies on MSH - 6 (Akola - Hyderabad). It is approximately 600 km from the State capital Mumbai. It is the Center of Naigaon Taluka. Naigaon is one of the rapidly growing towns in the Nanded District. The economy is primarily based on agriculture and related business.

The town is well connected by road with its district headquarters Nanded and other cities such as Nizamabad, Hyderabad of Telangana State, Nagpur, Aurangabad and Akola of Maharashtra State and Bidar of Karnataka State. It is also connected to adjacent talukas like Degloor, Mukhed, Biloli.

Demographics

As of 2011 Census, Naigaon had a total population of 16,719 individuals of which 8,512 were males and 8,207 were females. The population of children in the age range 0 to 6 years was 2,072. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population was 3,784 and 780 respectively. the average literacy rate was 72.12% of which males were 78.45% and females were 65.55% literate. The sex ratio was 964. There were 3323 households in Naigaon as of 2011.

References

http://nanded.nic.in/tahnaigaon/index.html