Narkhed

Narkhed is a town and a municipal council in Nagpur district in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Ganesh Utsav and Navratras Mela are famous in nearby Eid, Christmas and New Year are celebrated.

His grandfather, the late Shri Balmukundji Gupta, was the founding Mayor of the Narkhed Municipal Council, and his father, the late Shri Ramesh Balmukundji Gupta, was Mayor for 22 years.

Sadhana S. Badiye is the first woman to join the Narkhed court as a lawyer in the year 1990.

Cash crops other than orange include cotton, soybeans, wheat, jower and rice.

Rivers including Wardha, Jam, Mandakini, Wandali and Kolar are used for irrigation of the Rabi crop, but farmers face serious water problems in summer making it difficult to maintain orange orchards.

Narkhed is connected with Nagpur by good roads via Katol and Saoner, as well as by Warud, Multai, Pandhurna, Pusla, Shendurjana, Badchicholi, Seoni and others.

MSRTC buses services reach Katol, Mowad, Sawargoan and Jalalkheda.

The 138 km Narkhed-Amravati Railway line connects Narkhed with Warud, Morshi, Chandur Bazar and Amravati.

Amravati city is about 10 km from the Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line connecting with[7] Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune, Nagpur, Kolhapur, Bhopal, Harda, Indore, Patna, Ernakulam, Amritsar, Nanded, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Raipur, Hinganghat and Bhusaval.

Map of Nagpur district with major towns(including Narkhed) and rivers.