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This article details the history of Raigad district. Raigad District is a district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is located in the Konkan region. The Kulaba district was renamed after Raigad, the fort which was the former capital of the Maratha ruler Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The fort is surrounded by dense forest in the interior ...
Raigad district (Marathi pronunciation: [ɾaːjɡəɖ]), previously Colaba district, is a district in the Konkan division of Maharashtra, India. [2] The headquarters of the district is Alibag . Other major cities in the district are Panvel , Karjat , Navi Mumbai , Khopoli , Shrivardhan and Mahad .
The areas with biggest industrial growth were the Pune metropolitan region and areas close to Mumbai, such as Thane district and Raigad district. [151] After the 1991 economic liberalization, Maharashtra began to attract foreign capital, particularly in the information technology and engineering industries.
Alibag, also known as Alibaug (Pronunciation: ), is a coastal city and a municipal council in Raigad district of Maharashtra, India.It is the headquarters of the Raigad district and is south of the city of Mumbai.
Raigad is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (lower house of Indian parliament) constituencies of Maharashtra state in western India.It is a new constituency, created in 2008 as a part of the implementation of the delimitation of the parliamentary constituencies based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India constituted on 12 July 2002.
This constituency is located in the Raigad district. [1] It is a part of Raigad Lok Sabha constituency along with five other Vidhan Sabha constituencies namely, Dapoli and Guhagar (Ratnagiri district) and Pen , Alibag , Shrivardhan (Raigad district).
Panvel is one of the cities in the district of Raigad. It is also called the gate of Raigad because Panvel is the first city when entering in Raigad from west. It is also one of the most populous and developed cities in the district. Panvel is situated on the banks of the Gadhi river which flows and connects all the way to the Arabian Sea. It ...
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