Abstract :
Shirdi tourist place known for the place Shri Sai Baba. Sai Baba lives in Shirdi and he gives many things in Shirdi.
Much memorial moment in Shirdi. The people have many faiths for Saibaba. Through many thing and moments Shirdi become the place of Shri Saibaba and it have a historical back ground so that, many visitors or pilgrims are visited Shirdi for sacredness. Shani-Shinganapur is also famous for the fact that no house in the village has doors, only door frames, no theft is reported in the village never keep their valuables under lock in key. Temple is a jagrut devasthan (Alive temple). Shani-Shinganapur in newasa tahasil of M.S is famous for holy God Shri-Shanidev. The large numbers of devotees of Shri Shanidev are visiting this place. These pilgrims are from all over the country and abroad also. Specially devotees from M.P., G.J., A.P and Karnataka visiting the place for Abhishek and taking Darshan of Shri Shanidev. The main attraction of the devotees here is ‘no doors-no lock’ system and idol of Shri Shanidev. This does not having roofed or temple. No theft is taking place here. If so, it is believed that, Shri Shanidev will be penalized him. All the services and facilities which required at a tourist place are available here. Nearly 6000 daily, 60,000 on every Saturday and 4, 75,000 pilgrims visiting this place on Shani Amavasya to take Darashan and for Abhishek of Shri Shanidev. No doubt it’s from characteristics may change according to period with the development of the all facilities and advance technology in the Shirdi and peripheral area. These tourist centers in tahasil have economic functions. Economic status influence directly or indirectly several aspect of population, like Standard of living which includes wage levels, purchasing capacity together collectively influence the standard of living of the people. Various criteria’s are used for the determination of economic activities of people. Such as Economically active and non-active population, type of occupation, their importance and number of people engaged in them. Shirdi and peripheral area (10 Km) is located to the north western part of Ahmednagar district and covering area about 472.83 sq. km with the population of 205364 (2011). Whereas Shani-Shinganapur and peripheral area (10 Km) is located in Newasa tahasil of Ahmednagar district with covering of an area 487.11 sq.km. The total population of this area is 137628 (2011). There are 48.2 and 39.7 hectares forest areas are located in both the tahasils respectively.
Author Name : Darade Jalindar Uttamrao & Dr. Mhaske Pandurang, H
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.517637
Keywords: Population Characteristics, Impact Factor, Tourism, Pilgrim Center and Peripheral Area.
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