Ashti (official name: Ashti Dhotar Joda) is a major village in Partur taluka of

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Demographics

* Ashti village has total 2594 families residing with a population of 14,020 of which 7,127 are males and 6,893 are females as per Population Census 2011. * Average Sex Ratio of Ashti village is 967 which is higher than Maharashtra state average of 929. * Ashti village has lower literacy rate compared to Maharashtra. In 2011, literacy rate of Ashti village was 67.94% compared to 82.34% of Maharashtra. In Ashti Male literacy stands at 75.23% while female literacy rate was 60.42%. * Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 9.08% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 1.53% of total population in Ashti village.

Transport

Ashti is located towards South from District headquarters Jalna, from Partur and from State capital

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. Ashti is surrounded by Sailu Taluka and

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Taluka towards East,

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Taluka towards west and Majalgaon Taluka towards South. There is no railway station at Ashti. Nearest railway stations are, Partur, Usmanpur, Satona(24 km).

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is the nearest airport from the village.

Administration

* Though Ashti is in Jalna district, it comes under Parbhani Loksabha Constituency for

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or General Elections of India. The current Member of Parliament is Sanjay(Bandu) Jadhav of

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party. * Ashti comes under Partur-Mantha constituency for Legislative Assembly elections of

. The current Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from this area is

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, who is former cabinet minister in

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References

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