Dehu Road

Dehu Road Dehu Road
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Population  (2001)
• Total	46,900

Dehu Road is a cantonment town in Pune district in the state of Maharashtra, India.

Demographics

As of 2008 India census, Dehu Road had a population of 50,900. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Dehu Road has an average literacy rate of 76%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 83% and, female literacy is 67%. In Dehu Road, 11% of the population is under 5 years of age.

Overview

Being a cantonment, the population in Dehu Road is very diverse with people from various states of India having settled here. The newly constructed Mumbai-Pune Express highway starts from Dehu Road. It is connected to the Pune city proper via the Old Pune-Mumbai Highway. Dehu Road has many schools with one of the oldest and most prominent English medium school being St. Jude High School earlier known as the Garrison School. Kendriya Vidyalaya No 1, Dehu Road is one of the oldest KVs in India is situated here. Shri Shivaji Vidayala is also the oldest Marathi (state-level language) medium School as the oldest school in the region. This school has students from 10-15 small towns around Dehu Road.

Dehu-Road is situated at the edge of the Pune towards Northern West at the Bank of Pawana river. Its gateway to Pune while coming from Bombay. It is surrounded by Kiwale, Vikas Nagar, Ravet, Adarsh Nagar, Chinchol, Indrani Nagar, Mamurdi, Sai Nagar, etc like small towns. The recent development in Vikas Nagar area has made it as the one of the dense and fastest developing area in town. Some of the attractions around the towns include are Dehuroad Bazar, Murugesh Temple, Maruti Mandir established by Saint/Sant Ramdas etc. There are 3 Masjid and one huge Idgha. Jama Masjid is oldest and biggest out of the three. There are also 3 Church out of which Church Marry is oldest. Dehuroad Bazar is especially famous for zonal shopping and cheap prices with large collections of different merchandise. There are many Central Govt. departments especially Military and Cantonment area.

Dehu-Road is surrounded by rivers from almost all sides with lash greenery everywhere. Towards Bombay side i.e. north side, its surrounded by Indrani river, to the west Pawana river which flows across to east and passess between Pimpri-Chinchwad area. There is kinai river flowing to Dehu-Goan.

Both local train and bus facilities are available to reach Dehu-Road from Pune. Its almost equidistant from both sides from Pune and Lonavala and also from Chakan and Katraj. Climate and whether condition is excellent here and suits to everyone who comes to this place.

Its also very close to both IT parks in Pune Hinjawadi, Talawade as well as ICC Trade Tower.

New Cricket stadium is under construction in Dehu Road near Gaunga which will be ready to host first ODI in the upcoming World Cup 2011. The construction was recently inaugurated by BCCI.

There is Essel World (also called as Appu Ghar) and Durga Tickdi (A hill point) good for picnic at about just 3 km from Dehu-Road. It has the highest number of trees then in any other parts of the Pune city within a specified area. Due to this the climate of Dehu-Road and surronding region is most of the time cool.

Apart from this there are some wonderful picnic spots in and around Dehu-Road

Lekha Farm => http://www.travelhungama.com/lekhafarm/index.html

Sentosa => http://www.sentosaresortspune.com/