Talukas in Latur District | Latur District Map | Maharashtra Villages 

Latur is a district in Maharashtra state of India. It is the 16th largest city in Maharashtra with district headquarter located in the city. The district comes under Marathwada region of Maharashtra, geographically located between 17°52′ North to 18°50′ North and 76°18′ East to 79°12′ East in the Deccan plateau. It has an average elevation of 631 metres (2,070 ft) above mean sea level. The entire district is on the Balaghat plateau, 540 to 638 metres from the mean sea level.

The major population of district is primarily agricultural. Urban population comprises 25.47% of the total population. Latur District is bound by Nanded District to the northeast; the state border with Karnataka to the east and southeast; Osmanabad District to the south-west; Beed District to the west; and Parbhani District to the northwest.

 

Sr. No.	Tehsil	Area (km²)	Population (2011)
1	Ahmadpur	774	2,36,168
2	Ausa	1,220	3,09,571
3	Chakur	684	1,77,956
4	Deoni	415	97,598
5	Jalkot	361	87,201
6	Latur	1,009	6,83,666
7	Nilanga	1,080	3,25,255
8	Renapur	558	1,42,187
9	Shirur Anantpal	320	83,528
10	Udgir	736	3,11,066

 

Transport

Air

Latur Airport is located near Chincholiraowadi, northwest of Latur city. Latur Airport was a small airport constructed in 1991 by Public Works Department (PWD) and then handed over to MIDC. It has been upgraded at a cost of nearly Rs.140 million and has all required facilities, including a new runway and night landing facilities. Weekly thrice is the frequency of the air transport by kingfisher from latur airport.

As of January 2009, Kingfisher Airlines operates a regular service on the Mumbai-Nanded-Latur sector departing Mumbai at 6 a.m., halting at Nanded and reaching Latur at 8.20 a.m. on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The flight schedules of Kingfisher Airlines may be consulted for actual travel as the schedules may change without notice.

The tri-weekly flight service connecting Latur with Mumbai proposes to cater to the needs of pilgrims, traders, entrepreneurs and industrialists who have been instrumental in bolstering trade and commerce in the region.

Highways

Total road length of Pune district is 13,642 km. Several State Highways criss cross Latur district. They include:

• Nagpur—Bori—Adhampur State Highway (SH )
• Daund—Barsi—Osmanabad—Bantal—Ausa State Highway (SH 77)
• Miraj—Pandharpur—Barshi—Latur State Highway (SH 02)
• Manjarsumba—Kaij—Lokhandi—Savargaon State Highway.

Bus routes to the district headquarters connect 96 % of the villages.

The municipal bus system operates buses that serve the region and connect places in Latur City. The State Transport buses of MSRTC serves all villages in the district.

Railway Lines

All railway lines through Latur are broad gauge. They belong to Central Railway

Latur railway station was built again when the Barshi railway line was converted from narrow gauge to broad gauge. The railway gauge was converted in September 2007 from Latur to Osmanabad and in October 2008 from Osmanabad to Kurduvadi. Latur is now is connected to Mumbai by a direct train via Kurduvadi (train number 1006 from Latur and 1005 from Mumbai). It is connected to Hydrabad by train number 7013 that originates at Osmanabad. With the introduction of train number 1005 via Kurduvadi in October 2008, the earlier train connecting Latur to Latur Road, Parbhani and Aurangabad was discontinued.

The important railway stations are Latur, Latur Road and Udgir. The district has 148 km of railways of which 83 km is broad gauge and 65 km is narrow gauge.

The railway line from Latur to Kurduwadi to Miraj was narrow gauge. The Kurduwadi-Pandharpur section towards Miraj was converted to broad gauge in 2002. The Latur to Osmanabad section was converted to broad gauge in September 2007. (Osmanabad did not lie on the narrow gauge railway line and the alignment was changed for the new broad gauge track to pass through Osmanabad.) The Osmanabad-Kurduwadi section of broad gauge track became operational in October 2008. The Pandharpur-Miraj section is still narrow gauge and the conversion to broad gauge is low on priority. But it will be very important route to Goa if pandharpur-miraj is converted to broadgauge, as the peoples here agriculture-based but have no market. Trains will help them achieve konkan, goan markets and hence the poor economy of these people will improve.