About Sakarwadi ( Sakharwadi )

Sakharwadi is a town and Gram Panchayat of Phaltan tehsil, Satara district, Maharashtra, India. It is situated at about 15 kilometres (9.3mi) north-east of Phaltan City and approximately 60 kilometres (37mi) north-west of Satara City. "Sakharwadi" means Village of Sugar. The name's origin is from the New Phaltan Sugar Works Ltd., the first private sugar factory in Maharashtra established by an industrialist from Pune in the 1930s. When this area was part of the Phaltans Principality, the village was administered from Hol, and was part of the Pimpalwadi sub area. The town has a population of around 20,000. The River Nira flows through the Sakharwadi area. The town is 4 kilometres (2.5mi) from Murum and 5 kilometres (3.1mi) from Hol. Small-scale water resource developments like those at Odha, Nala, Wheels, and Phata, plus the Nira Right Canal Water Project, have made Sakharwadi a green town. The town has a large marketplace and is the seat of the Hol Mandal (administrative village...