Sillod is a major city and municipal council in the Aurangabad District of the Indian state of Maharashtra with an average elevation of 612 metres (2,008ft). A village named Shivanitapur once stood on the site of the modern day city. According to some historians, there is a Hemadpanthi style Mahadev Mandir still standing in Mhasoba Colony, the old area of city. Mhasoba is the Gram Devasthanam (Hindu temple) of Sillod. There is also similar temple dedicated to Hindu mystic Siddheshwar Maharaj at Dhotra as well as several well-known villages in the area which are connected to the city by road. As of the 2001 Indian census, Sillod had a population of 43,859, of which 52 per cent were male and 48 per cent female. The city has an average literacy rate of 65 per cent, higher than the national average of 59.5% with a male literacy rate of 73 per cent and that for females 56 per cent. Seventeen per cent of Sillod's population is under six years of age. Sillod Municipal Corporation is the...
