DEMOGRAPHY Demographic Trends in Maharashtra Area Population Urbanization ECONOMY Composition of Maharashtra’s Economy Agricultural Production Clusters Agricultural Processing Cluster TRANSPORT SECTOR Road Transportation Rail Transportation Air Transportation

1. Presentation On
DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC
STUDY OF MAHARASHTRA
PRESENTED BY
KUNAL R. BHADANE
Roll no. 03
Department of Civil Engineering
SOET, Sandip university, Nashik

2. CONTENTS
• DEMOGRAPHY
Demographic Trends in Maharashtra
Area
Population
Urbanization
• ECONOMY
Composition of Maharashtra’s Economy
Agricultural Production Clusters
Agricultural Processing Cluster
• TRANSPORT SECTOR
Road Transportation
Rail Transportation
Air Transportation
• REFERENCES

3. DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS OF MAHARASHTRA
• Maharashtra is the third largest state in India geographically and
second most populous state with 11,23,72,972 populations as per
2011 census.
• However, in terms of gender ratio, the rank of Maharashtra is 22nd
with sex ratio of 925 against 940 at national level as per 2011 census.

4. AREA
• Geographic Area 3,07,713 km2 (9.4% of country)
• Population 96.75 million (9.4% of country)
Urban 41.02 million (42.4%)
Rural 55.73 million (57.6%)
• Average Population Density 314 persons per km2
Tribal Population 9.30%
Livestock Population 36.4 million (7.7% of country)

5. Maharashtra Regional Division

6. Administrative Set up of Maharashtra State
Items Values
Geographical Area (‘000 sq. km.) 308
Revenue Divisions 6
Districts 36
Tehsils / Talukas 358
Inhabited Villages 43,663
Towns 535
Zilla Parishads 34
Gram Panchayats 27,913

7. Population
From the above chart, it can be seen that,
1. Growth rate of Uttar Pradesh is highest (16.5%) followed by Maharashtra (9.3%)
2. Growth of Jammu and Kashmir has been 1% followed by Haryana and Chhattisgarh with 2.1% growth rate

9. Sex Composition of Maharashtra:
The sex ratio is an important area of interest to anthropologists and demographers. Sex ratio is the number of
females per thousand males. The sex ratio changes from one area to another, from one age group to another
depending upon the age-specific mortality rates.

10. Urbanization in Maharashtra
• Maharashtra is the second most urbanized state in India with 45.28 percent of the population living in
urban areas during 2011. This huge population accounts for percent of India’s urban population in 2011.
• Till 1991 Maharashtra was on the first position. It was the most urbanized state of India; which privilege has
now gone to Tamil Nadu whose percent population is urban.
• The ratio of urban population is an important developmental indicator that influences the demography of
the region. The following table shows level of urbanization in Maharashtra State.

11. COMPOSITION OF MAHARASHTRA’S ECONOMY :
Maharashtra’s economy is primarily agricultural and rural. Agriculture is major occupation of the people in
Maharashtra. Both food and cash crops are grown in the State.
ECONOMY

12. Agricultural
Production Clusters

14. Agricultural markets in Maharashtra

15. Agricultural
Processing Cluster
• Maharashtra is host to more than
10,000 companies in the food
processing sector with a number of
multinational companies having their
production facilities

17. Tourism
Maharashtra attracts many tourists from different states and foreigners too.
It was the second most visited Indian state by foreigners and fourth most visited state by
domestic tourists in the country in 2014.
Aurangabad is the tourism capital of Maharashtra.
Major urban cities include : Mumbai, Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad, Nanded and Nagpur.

18. Export-Import
• Maharashtra is the second largest exporter of software with annual exports of ₹18,000 crores and
accounts for more than 30 per cent of the country's software exports.
• Maharashtra ranks first nationwide in coal-based thermal electricity as well as nuclear electricity
generation with national market shares of over 13% and 17% respectively.
• The most of the Export is of agricultural products.

19. TRANSPORT SECTOR
Road Transportation
The road infrastructure in the State is managed by various local bodies including Public Works
Department of the State, Municipal Corporation/Municipal Council/Nagar Panchayats, Cantonment Boards,
Maharashtra State Board Development Corporation, Forest Department Maharashtra Industrial Development
Corporation (MIDC), City and Industrial Development Corporation, etc.
The total road length maintained by Public Works Department and Zilla Parishad in the State was 2.43
lakhs kms. upto March, 2013, of which surface road length was 2.23 lakh kms. The total road length per hundred
sq. km. of geographical area was 79 km. & per lakh population was 213 km. in 2012-13. The total number of
vehicles registered in the State was 2,14,88,152 and number of motor vehicles per lakh population was 18,819 in
2012-13. As on 31st March, 2013, about 97.6 per cent villages were connected by all weather roads & 1.7 per
cent villages were connected by fair-weather roads. There are 41,126 villages in the State, out of which, 278
villages did not have any road connectivity.

20. Maharashtra has the largest network of highways in India with 18 national highways. The main national highways
in Maharashtra are: NH 3, NH 50, NH 69, NH 7, NH 17, NH 211, NH 204, NH 4, NH 8, NH 9, NH 13, NH 16, NH 4B,
NH 6, and NH 222.

21. Railway Transportation
The state is well-connected to other parts of the country with a railway network spanning
5,983 km between four Railways.
Main/Long Routes in Maharashtra
Mumbai CSMT-Kalyan-Kasara-Manmad-Jalgaon-Bhusawal-Akola-Wardha-Nagpur
Mumbai CSMT-Kalyan-Neral-Karjat-Lonavala-Pune
Manmad-Aurangabad-Nanded (south central railway line)
Pune-Daund-Solapur-Wadi-Tandur
Pune-Satara-Sangli-Miraj-Kolhapur
Miraj-Pandharpur-Kurduvadi-Barshi-Osmanabad-Latur-Latur Road
Balharshah-Majri jn-Sevagram(formerly Wardha East Jn.)-Nagpur-Amla-Itarsi
Highest Utilized Routes of Maharashtra
Mumbai-Thane-Kalyan-Karjat/Kasara sub-urban section
Mumbai-Bhusawal-Akola-Nagpur
Mumbai-Bhusawal-Khandwa
Itarsi-Nagpur-Sevagram-Majri-Balharshah
Mumbai-Pune-Daund-Solapur-Wadi
Daund-Manmad

22. Railway Divisions in
Maharashtra:
1) Mumbai
2) Nagpur
3) Bhusawal
4) Pune
5) Sholapur

23. Air Transportation
• Most of the State's airfields are operated by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) while Reliance Airport
Developers (RADPL), currently operate five non – metro airports at Latur, Nanded, Baramati, Osmanabad
and Yavatmal on a 95-year lease.
• The Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC) was set up in 2002 to take up development of
airports in the state that are not under the AAI or the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation
(MIDC). MADC is playing the lead role in the planning and implementation of the Multi-modal International
Cargo Hub and Airport at Nagpur (MIHAN) project.[10]
• Maharashtra has three international airports:
Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (among the busiest airports in India);
Pune Airport with flights to Dubai, Frankfurt and Sharjah;
Nagpur's Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport.
Nashik Airport serves domestic flights.
• Airports at Akola, Amravati, Baramati, Chandrapur, Dhule, Gondia, Jalgaon, Karad, Kolhapur, Latur, Nashik
Road Airport, Nanded, Osmanabad, Ratnagiri, Solapur and Yavatmal do not have any scheduled air services.
• There are also private airstrips at Aamby Valley City and Shirpur.

25. REFERENCES
• Industrial State Profile of Maharashtra 2013-2014 Prepared by MSME Development Institute, Ministry of MSME, Govt. of
India, Sakinaka, Mumbai-72
• Infrastructure Statistics of Maharashtra State 2011-12 & 2012-13 Prepared by Directorate of Economics & Statistics, Planning
Department, Government of Maharashtra, Mumbai
• Investment Environment & Opportunities in Food Processing, Prepared by Ministry of Food Processing Industries
• State Profiles – Maharashtra, Prepared by Institute for Competitiveness
• Economic Survey of Maharshtra 2017-18, Prepared by Directorate Of Economics And Statistics, Planning Department,
Government Of Maharashtra, Mumbai.
• Demographic Trends Of Maharashtra
http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/147711/17/13_chapter5.pdf
• Census data of Maharashtra
https://www.census2011.co.in/census/state/districtlist/maharashtra.html