State Highway 10 (Maharashtra)

State Highway 10
State Highway 10
Route information
	Maintained by MSRDC
Length	373.6 km (232.1 mi)
Major junctions
North end	Dondaicha, Dhule
	National Highway 6 at Kusumbe; National Highway 3 at Malegaon; National Highway 222 at Ahmednagar.
South end	Daund, Pune
Location
Country	India
State	Maharashtra
Primary; destinations	Shevade, Mehergaon, Kusumbe, Malegaon, Manmad, Kopargaon, Rahata, Rahuri, Ahmednagar
Highway system
	Roads in India; Expressways; National; State; Asian; State Highways in Maharashtra

State Highway 10, commonly referred to as MH SH 10, is a normal state highway that runs south through Pune, Ahmednagar, Nashik and Dhule districts in the state of Maharashtra, India. This state highway touches the cities of Dondaicha, Shevade, Mehergaon, Kusumbe, Malegaon, Manmad, Yeola, Kopargaon, Shirdi Rahata, Rahuri, Ahmednagar, Daund.

Summary

In Nashik District this highway is known as "Malegaon-Manmad Road". Starting from Malegaon in Nashik district from it junction with National Highway 3, this highway terminates inside Manmad. Both sections of the highway run in a southward direction throughout their length. The highway runs a distance of XXX miles and traverses through Yeola, Nandgaon, Chandawad and Malegaon talukas. The surface of the road is asphalted and is motorable throughout the year.^[1]

In Ahmednagar District This highway is known as "Manmad-Daund Road". Starting from Manmad in Nasik district the road enters the northern boundary of Ahmednagar district and leaves for Daund in Pune district. This road serves as a connecting link between the three districts and runs almost parallel to the Daund-Manmad railway line. The road runs from the north to south direction and passes through the middle of the district.

This road crosses the Daund-Manmad broad-gauge railway line at numerous places during its course. It crosses river Godavari near Kopargaon, the Pravara near Kolhar, the Mula near Rahuri and the Bhima near the district border where there are bridges. It crosses a major nallah near Rahata where the construction of a bridge is in progress.

Some part of the road surface is cement-concrete and the remaining length of the road is black-topped. It serves the traffic needs of many sugar factories and jaggery manufacturers. This road passes through the factory area and therefore it is always crowded by bullock-carts and lorries. It is motorable throughout the year except for some interruptions at small nallahs during heavy rains.^[2]

Route description

Below is the brief summary of the route followed by this state highway.

Dhule District

Sindkheda Taluka

This highway starts from Dondaicha city in Sindkheda Taluka of Dhule District and proceeds South West towards Kusumbe. After travelling for 18.8 km (11.7 mi), State Highway 11 intersects this highway just before Shevade village and continues east while this highway continues southwards. After travelling for another 6.3 km (3.9 mi), it exits Sindkheda Taluka just before Lamkhani village and enters the Dhule taluka.

Dhule Taluka

Once this highway enters Dhule taluka, it travels for another 2.7 km (1.7 mi) and enters Lamkhani village where State Highway 12 intersects this highway inside the village and continues east towards Kharadbari village in Sakri Taluka, Dhule District, while this highway continues southwards. After travelling for another 15.3 km (9.5 mi) this highway enters Mehergaon village where State Highway 14 starts off and proceeds south-east towards Dhule city while this highway proceeds south-west. Then this highways travels for another 9.7 km (6.0 mi) where it intersects in to National Highway 6 at Kusumbe city. It then continues southwards for another 13 km (8.1 mi) where it exits Dhule taluka just after Ajnale village and enters Malegaon Taluka of Nashik District.

Nashik District

Malegaon Taluka

This highway enters Malegaon taluka of Nashik district just before Dongrale village. After crossing Dongrale village, it continues for southwards another 27.2 km (16.9 mi) where it enters Malegaon city. After enterting Malegaon city, this highway intersects the old alignment of National Highway 3 inside the city after travelling 31 km (19 mi) from Dongrale. It then travels internally inside Malegaon city for 3.7 km (2.3 mi) and exits the city on south-west side, where it intersects the new alignment of National Highway 3 and continues south-west. After travelling for another 5.7 km (3.5 mi), near Kaulane village the State Highway 16 starts off and proceeds south-east towards Nandgaon while this highway proceeds south-west for another 14.5 km (9.0 mi) where it exits Malegaon taluka just after Chondhi village and enters Chandwad taluka.

Chandvad Taluka

This highway enters Chandwad taluka just before Kundalgaon village. After crossing Kundalgaon village it continues southwards for another 5.6 km (3.5 mi) where it exits Chandwad taluka just after Dahegaon (Manmad) village and enters Nandgaon taluka.

Nandgaon Taluka

This highway enters Nandgaon taluka after travelling for 1 km (0.62 mi) after Dahegaon (Manmad) village. Afterwards it travels for 0.6 km (0.37 mi) and enters Manmad city. After travelling another 0.7 km (0.43 mi) inside Manmad city the State Highway 24 intersects this highway and merges on to it. State Highway 24 continues southwards with this highway for another 0.09 km (0.056 mi), and then it branches west to proceed towards Chandvad city, while this highway continues south towards Anakwade. After crossing Anakwade village it continues southwards for another 0.4 km (0.25 mi) where it exits Nandgaon taluka and enters Yeola taluka.

Yeola Taluka

This highway enters Yeola taluka just after Anakwade village. After crossing Savargaon village it continues southwards for another 6 km (3.7 mi) where it enters Yeola city. Inside Yeola city after this highway has travelled for another 6 km (3.7 mi), the State Highway 30 intersects this highway from west and merges on to it. Also State Highway 25 starts at this point and continues northeast towards Nandgaon city. State Highway 30 continues southwards with this highway for another 0.6 km (0.37 mi), and then it branches east to proceed towards Vaijapur city, while this highway continues south towards Yesgaon in Kopargaon taluka of Ahmednagar district. After travelling southwards for another 8.2 km (5.1 mi)it exits Yeola Taluka just after Pimpalgaon Jalal village and enters Kopargaon Taluka of Ahmednagar District.

Ahmadnagar District

Kopargaon Taluka

This highway enters Kopargaon taluka of Ahmednagar district just before Yesgaon village. After crossing Yesgaon village, it continues southwards for another 5.2 km (3.2 mi) where it enters Kopargaon city. After crossing Kopargaon city it continues southwards for another 10.7 km (6.6 mi) where the State Highway 7 starts at the junction of this highway proceed north west towards Lasalgaon in Nashik district. After this point it continues southwards for another 15.7 km (9.8 mi) where it exits Kopargaon taluka just after crossing Rahata village and enters Srirampur taluka.

Srirampur Taluka

From Rahata Taluka after ten KM there is Babhaleswer.

Rahuri Taluka

Ahmadnagar Taluka

Shrigonda Taluka

Pune District

Daund Taluka

Major Junctions

The following roads either emanate from it or are crossed by it. This list has been separated by district and talukas for easy reading.

State	District	Taluka	Distance	Location of Junction	Junction
Maharashtra	Dhule	Sindkheda	20.2 km (12.6 mi)	Shewade village^[3]	State Highway 11
		Dhule	27.8 km (17.3 mi)	Lamkani village^[4]	State Highway 12
			43.1 km (26.8 mi)	Mehergaon village^[5]	State Highway 14
			52.8 km (32.8 mi)	Kusumbe city^[6]	National Highway 6
	Nashik	Malegaon	100.3 km (62.3 mi)	Malegaon city^[7]	National Highway 3 (Old Alignment)
			104 km (65 mi)	Malegaon city^[8]	National Highway 3 (New Alignment)
			109.7 km (68.2 mi)	Kaulane village^[9]	State Highway 16
		Nandgaon	135.8 km (84.4 mi)	Manmad city^[10]	State Highway 24
		Yeola	167.1 km (103.8 mi)	Yeola city^[11]	State Highway 25
		Yeola	167.1 km (103.8 mi)	Yeola city^[12]	State Highway 30
	Ahmednagar	Kopargaon	189.6 km (117.8 mi)	Kopargaon city^[13]	State Highway 7
		Srirampur	213.6 km (132.7 mi)	Bhalbhaleshwar village^[14]	State Highway 44
		Srirampur	220.6 km (137.1 mi)	Kolhar Budruk village^[15]	State Highway 45
		Rahuri	241.2 km (149.9 mi)	Rahuri city^[16]	State Highway 49
		Ahmednagar	271 km (168 mi)	Ahmednagar city^[17]	State Highway 145
			277.4 km (172.4 mi)	Ahmednagar city^[18]	State Highway 60
			278.8 km (173.2 mi)	Ahmednagar city^[19]	Major State Highway 2
			278.8 km (173.2 mi)	Ahmednagar city^[20]	National Highway 222
			278.8 km (173.2 mi)	Ahmednagar city^[21]	State Highway 148
			278.8 km (173.2 mi)	Ahmednagar city^[22]	State Highway 141
		Shrigonda	337.5 km (209.7 mi)	Madhewadgaon village^[23]	State Highway 50
			340.1 km (211.3 mi)	Dhokraimala village^[24]	State Highway 55
			352.5 km (219.0 mi)	Nimgaon Khalu village^[25]	State Highway 67

Connections

This highway touches the following important places in its stretch. All the list has been separated by district and talukas for easy reading. Also in each table, the distance of the place from important places in the route of this highway are also mentioned.