PLACES

UMAPUR

Umapur, with 3,880 inhabitants as per the 1961 Census is a village in Gevrai tahsil, situated along Gevrai-Ahmadnagar State Transport bus route. Recently the village has been electrified. It will go a long way towards the improvement of the system of well irrigation as this has facilitated fixing of electric pumps on wells. During the Nizam's regime the village was held in jagir by the same sardar who was holding Talvada, also a village in Gevrai tahsil. There is a shrine dedicated to Umadevi. The goddess is the gram daivat of the village folk. There is a post office.