About Shikrapur

Shikrapur is a panchayat village[1] in the state of Maharashtra, India,[2][3] on the left (north) bank of the Vel River (Wel River).[4] Administratively, Shikrapur is under Shirur Taluka of Pune District in Maharashtra.[3] There is only the single village of Shikrapur in the Shikrapur gram panchayat.[3] The village of Shikrapur lies next to the intersection of State Highway 60 and State Highway 55. It is 10 km by road northeast of the town of Koregaon Bhima, and 32 km by road southeast of the town of Chakan. In the 2001 census, the village of Shikrapur had 9,541 inhabitants, with 5,069 males (53.1%) and 4,472 females (46.9%), for a gender ratio of 882 females per thousand males.