Roha

Roha
—  taluka place  —
Roha Location of Roha in Maharashtra and India
Coordinates	18°27′15″N 73°06′53″E
Country	India
State	Maharashtra
District(s)	Raigad
Nearest city	Nagothana, Kolad
Parliamentary constituency	Raigad
Assembly constituency	Shrivardhan
Time zone	IST (UTC+05:30)
Codes • Pincode • 402 109 • Telephone • +02194 • Vehicle • MH-06

Roha today

Roha in 1970s

Roha (Marathi: रोहे) is a small town in Maharashtra state of India, 120 km south-east of Mumbai. Many chemical industries have opened up their manufacturing bases here. Roha is located between the banks of the Kundalika River and the hills of Kalasgiri. It has a population of over 40,000.

Roha is connected to Mumbai by Panvel harbour line and to Karjat by Panvel-Karjat line.Roha is starting point of Konkan Railway in the north , whereas Surathkal is at south most point. It is off Mumbai Goa Highway, taking a detour at Kolad.

Roha is very well known for its Dhavir Temple. Dhavir Maharaj is the prime deity of Roha. Every year the town celebrates Navaratri Festival by having a 10 day Festival at the Dhavir Temple which ends on the 10th day - "Dasra" during Navaratri. On the following day of Dasra, Palkhi of Dhavir Maharaj is taken through the town where it visits each and every house for the Aarti. It is presumably, only after Durga, Kokatta, that the palkhi is given Government Salaami (Salutation) with full honours. It is the terminal of Central Railway.

Roha may soon see the largest collection of scientists working under a single roof. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided to setup and allow the Mahindra and Mahindra group to build state-of-the-art research & innovation park which will house 25,000 scientists in a sprawling 5,000 acre complex.

The innovation park is projected to be completed in the next 10 years. The MMRDA is taking help from the Science and Technology Park, which is a part of Pune University, to facilitate the setting up of the park. It will house nearly 2,000 research centers of industries and government where more than 25,000 scientists from over 100 nationalities will do research.

Very famous Sanskrit Master Shree. Shastri Pandurang Vaijnath Athavale was born on October 19, 1920 in the village of Roha in Maharashra (konkan) India. He was an Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer[2] and Hinduism reformist, who founded the Swadhyay Movement and the Swadhyay Parivar organization.

Tourists places near to Roha (distance not exceeding 50 km):

• Murud Janjira
• Alibag
• Raigad
• Ballaleshwar Pali
• Shrivardhan
• Kashid
• Karnala
• Dhavir Temple

Notable people from Roha include:

• Chintamanrao Deshmukh the first Indian Governor of Reserve Bank of India, & finance minister in Jawahar lal Nehru's government was also from a small village near Roha, named Nata, near Fort Raigad, in Maharashtra.
• Pandurang Shastri Athavale who was the founder of the Swadhyay Parivar, and the winner of Templeton Awards for progress in religion.

External links

• "Murud Janjira"
• "Janjira Fort on Google Map"
• "Fort Raigad"
• "Roha on Google Map"
• " Kandane Khurd on Google Map"
• BBC article
• The Satamker Family Website