Khodad Village is situated in Junner taluka of Pune district of Maharashtra state, India.

There is pyramid Shape Mountain at East of Khodad towards Parner taluka end.

Khodad village is located in Junnar Tehsil of Pune district in Maharashtra, India.

Most of the young generation had shifted to Mumbai or other big cities in Maharashtra for Jobs & business.

There are some family business in Khodad which include Carpenter, Gavandi, Kasar, Vani etc.

Wheat, Groundnut, Sugarcane, Potato, Onions, Bajari are some of the main crops in khodad.

But farmers in village are taking up the new way farming to yield non traditional crops like Tomato, Cabbage and making it success story.

Leopard Rehabilitation Center in Manikdoh, around 25 km west to the Narayangaon is becoming major tourist attraction ever since its establishment.

GMRT is operated by the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, a part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

This site was selected by National Center for Radio Astrophysics after an extensive search in many parts of India.

After considering several important criteria Khodad was selected for establishing this project as a part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research program.

low man-made radio noise, availability of good communication, vicinity of industrial, educational and other infrastructure and a geographical latitude sufficiently north of the geomagnetic equator in order to have a reasonably quiet ionosphere which will be helpful to observe a good part of the southern part of sky are some of the criteria which are taken into consideration while making final decision.

TIFR professor Govind Swarup conceived and directed the design and construction of the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), consisting of 30 fully steerable parabolic dishes of 45m diameter that are located in a Y-shape array of about 25 km in extent 8 around the Khodad.

The famous Maratha Emperor Shivaji was born on Shivneri Fort, 16 km west to the Narayangoan.

Ganpirya, Chawand, Nimgiri, Dhakoba, Hadsar, Jivdhan, Harishchandra are some of the forts nearby and some of which have become great attraction for trekking.