Balapur(Urdu: ) is a city and a municipal council in Akola district in the state of Maharashtra, India. Balapur is located at 2023N 7628E / 20.39N 76.46E / 20.39; 76.46. It has an average elevation of 425metres (1394feet). The town in an important junction for traffic on National Highway No 6, which carries the Calcutta traffic to the Port City of Bombay. Transport destined for south takes a southward turn following a wide State Highway crossing the NH 6 here. The nearest Rail head is at Paras, 7km from the town. The MSEB is expanding its thermal power station with two 250 MW units to augment the falling generating capacity of the state power corporation. There is further potential to expand it to 1000 MW making it a Super Thermal Power Station. One of the popular and traditional profession of people here is manufacturing DARI (cotton rugs/carpets) using handlooms. Other major business of people here is manufacturing Bricks, which is exported to surrounding...
