Pune is known to have existed as a town since 937 AD.[5] Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaaj, the founder of the Maratha Empire, lived in Pune as a boy, and later oversaw significant growth and development of the town during his reign. In 1730, Pune became an important political centre as the seat of the Peshwa, the prime minister of the Chhatrapati of Satara. After the town was annexed to British India in 1817, it served as a cantonment town and as the "monsoon capital" of the Bombay Presidency until the independence of India.[6]
Today, Pune is known for its educational facilities, having more than a hundred educational institutes and nine universities.[7] Pune has well-established manufacturing, glass, sugar and forging industries since 1950-60s. Pune also has a growing industrial hinterland, with many information technology and automotive companies setting up factories in Pune district. Additionally, Pune is known for various cultural activities like Classical Music,Spirituality, Drama,Sports, Literature, Foreign language learning and Administrative, Economics, Social Science studies. These activities and job opportunities attract migrants and students from all over India, and also attract students from Middle-East, Iran, Eastern Europe, South-East Asia which makes for a city of many communities and cultures.
Average Climate : Summer : 22°C TO 41°C. Winter :8°C TO 25°C. Rainfall : 650 To 700 mm.
Languages : Marathi ( Main ) Hindi & English
Best time to Visit : Any Time Year Round
Geographical Location : Foothills of Sahyadri Mountains.
Borders : North-east Ahmednagar, West Colaba, North-west Thane, South-east Solapur, South Satara.
According to Geographical conditions district is divided into three parts :
1) Towards West 15 to 30 kms Mountains known as Ghatmatta
2) Towards East of Ghatmatta 15 to 30 kms plane known as Maval
3) Towards East its Plane known as Desh
Altitude 559 Metres
Taluka of Pune District : 1. Pune city. 2. Daund. 3. Baramati. 4. Bhor. 5. Indapur. 6. Velhe. 7. Purandar. 8.Shirur. 9. Ambegaon. 10. Khed. 11. Junnar 12. Maval. 13.Mulshi.14. Haveli.
MAHANAGARPALIKA : 1 . Pune ( PMC ) . 2 . Pimpri-Chinchwad. ( PCMC )
Mayor : Rajlakshmi Bhosale (Female)
Nagarpalika :
( Municipal Corp ) There are 11 Nagarpalika ( Municipal Corporations ) in Pune district
Cantonment Board : 1. Pune. 2. Dehu Road. 3. Khadki.
Panchayat Samiti : 13 Pune district.
Population : 4,485,000 (2005)
Area : 700 km² (270 sq mi)
Literacy : 71 % Population Literate.
Rivers : Main River Bhima
Sub - Rivers : Nira , Indrayani, Mula, Mutha, Vel, Ghod, Meena Kukdi, Pushpavati, Pavna
Water Projects : Venkoji Sagar, Veer Dam,( Bhatgar ), Ghod ( Chinchoni near Shirur ) Khadakwasla ( Pune ), Bhima ( Maval) Kukdi,( Junnar) , Panshet.
Small Projects : Chakson ( Khed ), Wandiwale ( Maval ), Pushpawati Bandhara, Nazre Dharan ( Pura).
Restaurants and Bars : Generally open from 11 A M to 2 .30 P M & 7 P M to 11.30 P M.
City Buses : Pune Municipal Transport (PMT) Buses reach every part of the city mainly from: Swargate, Deccan Gymkhana, Pune Station, Shivaji Nagar Station, M G Bus Stand, Pune Corporation, Saras Baug.
Booking available for : Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation(MTDC), Karnataka Tourism Development Corporation, Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation, Rajasthan Tourism Development Corporation, Gujarath Tourism Development Corporation, Tamilnadu Tourism Development Corporation, Kerala Tourism Development Corporation, Kumaon Tourism Development Corporation.
Taxi : Mumbai-Pune private taxi service is available. Journey time 4 hours.
Vehicle : MH-12 PUNE & MH-14 PCMC
Local Transport : Auto rickshaws, municipal and private buses, rental cars and bicycles are available.
Q: How old is pune city?
A: According to the evidance has ben found to Dr.Sankalia and his colleagues in the Decan College that there was a human Civilizaion 1 to a lakh 50 thousand years ago.These scholars found stone age implements on the banks of mutha river and some at the bund garden area and a few at the dattawadi area.
Q: Why the city is named as pune and what does it mean?
A: The name pune has its origin from the copper plates dated 758 and 768 A.D. At that time this area or region was ruled bye the rashtrakutas.In the Copper plates of 758 A.D. it is named as punya Vishaya where as in the copper plate of 768 A.D. it is named as punaka vishaya.Vishaya means region, a grographical area. In the copper plate of 993 A.D. It is named as punaka desha.Later on it was refered to as punekavadi.Punevadi, kasabe Pune.Therirwas temple of punyeshwara on the bank of mutha. Saint namdev (1270 - 1350) visited this temple. Poona gazetter emplains that this city is situated on the confluence of mula and mutha rivers. The confluence / sangam of two rivers is called as punya. Hence the name pune.It is also refered to as punyanagari.
Q: Why the city is called a historical city ?
A: The Pune city has long tradition and history, various communities living together for years together and the people in the region have great achievement, hence the city is called a historical city.Chhatrapati Shivaji the great king of Marathas has established his kingdom in this region.Shahji , Shivajis father and grand father Maloji occupied this territory for over a century. Shivaji enjoyed his childhood in lal mahal along with his mother and mentor Dadoji Kondadev in pune. Everyday jijabai used to visit the temple of Ganpati in Kasba peth. Hence she helped for construction of the temple. Shivaji conquered sinhagad fort from his commander Tanaji in 1670. Pune city has such long tradition and history.
Q: Why it is called that "pune is the city of Peshwas" ?
A: After the death of shivaji there was turmoil in the deccan due to campaigns launch by Aurngjeb. However, from 1713 to 1818 pune city and also the maratha kingdom was ruled by the peshwa, the prime ministers of king of marathas , the chhatapati shahu of satara. The first peshwa Balaji Vishvanath was living in saswad, a village about 15 km far away from pune. As saswad was inconvenient place to rule. After the death of Balaji Vishvanath his successor the second peshwa thrale Bajirao (1720-40) construced a palace named Shaniwarwada in 1730-32.The wall around the palace was constructed after some times and the new building called Mahals were built when peshwas were rule over pune.Thorale bajirao expanded the maratha empire to the north.After that the third peshwa , Nanasaheb peshwa (1740- 1761) hold his position and built parvati temple during his times. In 1761, the marathas were defeated at the battle of panipat and lost two leaders Sadshivrao and Vishwasrao along with thousands of sepoys.After the Nanasaheb peshwa Thorale Madhavrao (1761- 1772) hold the position and expand the maratha empire by defeated the nizam and expanding the kingdom. Thorale Madhavrao was killed by the sepoys hired by Raghunathrao peshwa on instructions reveived from Anandibai, wife of Raghunathrao, uncle of madhavrao peshwa. After that Savai Madhavrao peshwa was hold the place. He constructed building in shaniwarwada, expanded parvati temple, developed Sarasbaug Ganesh temple and also built a fountain of 1000 outlets in Shaniwarwada.He ended his life in 1795. The last peshwa was second Bajirao, son of Raghunathrao peshwa.He joined hands with British and lastly surrendered to the british and after that the peshwa and maratha system was end.
Q: Why Pune is called Queen of Deccan?
A: Pune is known as Queen of Deccan because of its historical ,social , cultural and political improtance and its picturesqe surroundings in the Deccan.
Q: Why Pune city is called the center of learning?
A: A place for quality education with the advent of british, the british educational system of formal school and colleges was started. Poona sanskrit college was stated in vishrambagwada. This is now converted in to present day Deccan College (1851). Agarkar, Tilak, Gopal Krishna Gohale and other leader of Maharashtra were educated at the Deccan College.After realising the importance of national education, there will be starting of Fergusson college(1885), New English School(1880) , High School for Indian girls (1884), Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya(1883) and well known education institutions like Bhave High School, Shivaji Maratha High school, Sarasvati Mandir were started.For higher education their is various institutions is here in pune like poona college of Engineering and for Medical education sassoon Hospital is stated which is now converted into B.J.Medical College,the Law College was stated in 1924.Poona Agricultural College was started in 1908 with British Principals the leading agricultural education institute from pune.S.P.College is stated in 1916 and the N. Wadia College is stated in 1932. Thousands of students from outside pune get admission and after taking education from such colleges, they later on settle their life throughout the length and breadth of india.After independences the poona university started form 10th feb 1949.Under the control of this university, their is various institutions are establied like Ncl,Niv,IUCAA,C-DAC, IAT which now the wellknownreserch institutions. Now days their is various new and recognized institutions are started ih pune.
Q: Give information about industrialisation of pune city?
A: Pune is now known as growing industrial city of india. Because Mumbai was full of industries and now it is locked by the Government of Maharashtra. So the industrialists in Mumbai prefered Pune for starting industries.Now a days numbers of industries were stated along the Mumbai-Pune highway some of them are Bajaj Auto,Bajaj Tempo, Telco, Geaware's Cromption and Greaves, Thermax, Alfa-Laval,The Kirloskar group of companies like Kirloskar Oil Engines, Kirloskar Brothers, Garware group companies,Garware wallrope,Garware Nylons, Philips, Thermax and many more leading companies are settled in pune. At Bhosari, Hadapsar, Nagar road the industrial estates have been developed.In pune well estalished and organised Maratha Chember of Commerce and industries and Agricultural has also very good stock market.
The Pune Stock Exchange monitores its transactions. Pune city is linked by air to Ahmedabad, Banglore, Delhi, Mumbaiand also to other cities in india with good telecom network. Even now a days internet network in pune made pune's institutions, industries, home so close to the world of information. The most important thing is that for industrial growth knowledgeable and skilled technical manpower and peaceful environment avoiding enmities among the workers and so that they can work very actively. Multinational companies have spread their net by establishing branches in pune, finding increasing market for their products.
Q: Give information about changing pune ?
A: Pune is changing according to the various fields. Peoples attracted towords pune for best education or for employment opportunities. South indians have formed theirnightbourhood in Rasta Peth, Whereas Sindhis have settled in Pimpri, Christains have settled in Camp Area. Whereas Muslims majority reside in Ganj, Nana Peth i.e East Pune . Gujarathis and Marwadi, Jains have majority in Bhavani ,Shukrawar and Nana Peths, Sikhs have founded their Gurudwara in Ganesh Peth, Marathas and Brahmins are everywhere.There are increasing house building activity in extension area and in pune city also. Former buildings are converted intoplaza, Apartments, Arcade, many co-oprative housing societies have constructed homes for their members.Still a large population is lives in slums and the slum areas are also increasing day by day. Women of Pune are educated and try to get a job in different fields for e.g.they perform well as professionals in areas like music , dance ,acting in cinema or TV and Dramas , journalism , research and now in design, dentistry, medicine, computer field also. Now days womens in pune drive a car with very confidence. Hotels and eating lovers are increasing and the taste of pune people is chaging. There is increasing nature to outside eating. Hence dining halls are flourishing. Now days many peoples prefered readymade things - may be chapathis or modak or puran-poli. Modern pizza Huts, Macdonalds have attracted the young and the elderly in recently times.
Q: Give information about Tilak era in pune history?
A: In Pune's history and in and cultural life is influnced by Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920) and his other colleagues V. K.Chiplunkar, M.B. Namjoshi, G.G.Agarkar, N.C. Kelkar, N.C. Kelkar, Prin. V.S.Apte and other great persons like M.G.Ranade, Jotiba Phule, G.K.Gokhale, Lokhitvadi, R.G.Bhandarkar started so many activities.In this period Lok. B.G.Tilak plays a main role. At that time he started the news paper called Kesari and Maratta in year 1881.He also established Furgusson College in 1885 and New English School in 1880. He was imprisonment so many times on charge of Rajadroha. From 1908 to 1914 ,Tilak was imprisonment at Mandalay because of great dissatisfaction all over india. He was an all india leader. He struggled very hard for the freedom of india at the indian national congress and various other platform. Lastly he failed a suit against British officers. He stated various institutions in pune during his peroid. He also stated Ganesh and Shivjayanti festivals to bring the messes together. So the period from 1880 to 1920 is called as the Tilak era in the history of pune city. After his death verious prominent institutions were stated in pune. Some of them are Tilak Smark Mandir, Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Tilak Statue at Mandal , Tilak Swiming Tank, Tilak College of Education ,Tilak Road.
Q: Give information about pune city after Lok.Tilak?
A: After the death of Lok.Tilak , Mahatma Gandhi take a all india leadership. Gandhi had his followes in pune through a new front and leaders like n.v Gadgil ,Keshavrao Jedhe, Dr. N.B.Parulekar, Shankarrao More started a newspaper called sakal. Shri V.R.Kothari started another newspaper called Prabhat led to the notn -brahmin moments. Many followers of Tilak entered Hindu Mahasabha due to influence of Svatantryaveer savarkar. After independence, various fources in pune will be emerged .One of them is S.M.Joshi and N.G.Goray , the socialist leaders and another force is lead by the present Bharatiay Janta Party under the leadership of Rambhau Mhalagi. Pune city took part in Samyukh Maharashtra Movement launched Goa liberation mevement under the leadership of Jayantrao Tilak and his Colleagues.Jayantrao Tilak was appointed as speaker of Maharashtra Legislative Council and earlier worked as Rajya Sabha Member.Many of the perosons were elected from pune for Rajya sabha and Lok Sabha like N.G Gorya ,Vitthalrao Gadgil, Suresh Kalmadi, Pradeep Rawat, Vitthal Tup, Mohan Dharia worked as Minister in the central Govt. and later on worked as Dy. Chairman, ,Planning Commission during Janata Party rule.Sharrad Pawar former chief minister of Maharashtra and presently founder of NAtionalist Congress belongs to Pune District.
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