About Shenit Village

Shenit is a mid sized village in Igatpuri tehsil, in the district of Nashik, Maharashtra. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 1,960, made up of 1,009 males and 951 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 943 females per 1000 males. The village covers 798.03 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 422502, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Shenit compares

By the 2011 count Shenit is the 41st largest of the 117 villages in the tehsil, which puts it a little above average, where the typical village holds 1,690 residents. Its 798.03 hectares work out to about 2.5 people per hectare, thinly settled, with room between homesteads. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, a little below the tehsil average of 974.

Getting to Shenit

Shenit is well connected by rural standards, with buses in the village itself and a railway station close by. The census records public bus service for Shenit as Available within village. Private bus service is recorded as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within <5 km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Shenit from other places

Shenit lies about 21 km from Nashik, and the nearest railway station is Asvali, about 9.4 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Villages closest to Shenit

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Igatpuri tehsil.

• Nandurvaidya 7.9 km
• Janori 11 km
• Kurhegaon 12 km
• Belgaon Tarhale 13 km
• Gondedumala 13 km
• Wadivarhe 15 km

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.