Girye is a small village in

Devgad Devgad is a taluka in Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra, India consisting of 98 villages. It is located on the Arabian Sea in the coastal Konkan region of Maharashtra, south of Mumbai. Devgad is known globally for its exports of locally grow ...

Taluka in

Sindhudurg Sindhudurg Fort (Marathi pronunciation: in̪d̪ʱud̪uɾɡ is a historical sea fort located in Arabian Sea near the Konkan region of Maharashtra in Western India. The fort, commissioned by Chhatrapati Shivaji, was constructed between 1664 ...

district of the

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Maharashtra Maharashtra () is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. It is bordered by the Arabian Sea to the west, the Indian states of Karnataka and Goa to the south, Telangana to th ...

. It is located on the west coast of

Transport

Girye is located on MH SH 115 which connects with NH 17 that lies 45 km from the town. It is well connected to neighbouring towns and cities.

MSRTC The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation abbreviated as (MSRTC, or simply ST), is the state-run bus service of Maharashtra, India, which serves routes to towns and cities within Maharashtra as well as to its adjoining states. It also of ...

buses are available from all major towns as well as local buses that ply at regular intervals.

Driving Directions

From

Mumbai Mumbai ( ; ), also known as Bombay ( ; its official name until 1995), is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city proper of India with an estimated population of 12 ...

: Distance - 408 km Time - 8 hours 30 minutes
From

Pune Pune ( ; , ISO 15919, ISO: ), previously spelled in English as Poona (List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1978), is a city in the state of Maharashtra in the Deccan Plateau, Deccan plateau in Western ...

: Distance - 367 km Time - 6 hours 22 minutes
From

Kolhapur Kolhapur () is a city on the banks of the Panchganga River in the southern part of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Kolhapur is one of the most significant cities in South Maharashtra and has been a hub of historical, religious, and cultural a ...

: Distance - 138 km Time - 2 hours 51 minutes

Local Transport

The local transport is motorised three-wheeler rickshaws. They are parked near the main bus stop and are available without much bargaining.

Railways Stations

Nearest railways stations are: * Rajapur Road Railway Station: 57 km, 1 hour 25 minutes *

Vaibhavwadi Vaibhavwadi taluka is a taluka in Kankavli subdivision of Sindhudurg district in the Indian state India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 subnational entities. The states and union te ...

Road Railway Station: 58 km, 1 hour 15 minutes * Nandgaon Road Railway Station: 58 km, 1 hour 15 minutes *

Kankavli Kankavli is a city in Sindhudurg district in the southwest of the Indian state of Maharashtra, in the center of the Sindhudurg district. It has an elevation of 42 metres and is on the banks of two rivers, the Gad River and the Janavli River. ...

Railway Station: 74 km, 1 hour 45 minutes Local motorised three-wheeler rickshaws are available from all the above listed railway stations or one can hire private cars that are parked outside.

Places of interest

* Shri Devi Chaudeshwari Temple * Girye Windmills * Kotharwadi Beach *

Shri Dev Rameshwar Temple Shri Dev Rameshwar Temple is located in the village Rameshwar Wadi in Devgad taluka of Sindhudurg District, Maharashtra, India. This temple is dedicated to the Hindu deity Shiva. It is a historic temple built in the 16th century. Its chief in ...

* Rameshwar Beach * Hatti Mahal * Sambhaji Angre Samadhi * Shri Ganesh Mandir, Rameshwar Wadi * Shri Aday Durgay Temple * Green Earth Eco-Park, Rameshwar *

Vijaydurg Fort Vijaydurg (sometimes written as Viziadurg), the oldest fort on the Sindhudurg coast, was constructed during the regime of Raja Bhoja II of the Shilahar dynasty (construction period 1193-1205) and restructured by Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj. ...

* Vijaydurg Beach *

Vijaydurg Port Vijaydurg Port is a natural harbour on the west coast of the district of Sindhudurg in Maharashtra, India. The port is situated midway between Malvan and Ratnagiri at the mouth of the Vijaydurg creek in Devgad taluka. Its coastal jurisdiction ex ...

* Konkan Krishi Vidyapith's Mango Research Institute, Rameshwar

Girye Ultra Mega Power Project

Girye was the proposed site for Girye Ultra Mega Power Project proposed by the government of India as part of a strategy to add an additional 100,000 megawatts of generation capacity by 2017. In 2007 the Hindustan Times reported that the site for the project was selected after the Central Electricity Commission carried out a detailed feasibility study and gave its go-ahead completely overlooking sensitivities of local alphonso growers. Alphonso is another name for a variety of mango specifically grown in this area. The newspaper reported that the 3,000-acre piece of land originally earmarked for the project spreads over four villages with a population of about 4,000. The project was opposed by a determined group of alphonso mango farmers who refused to yield even an inch of their land for the project as there is no alternative land available for alphonso farming. Due to local agitation in 2013 the project was reported as deferred and shelved.UMPPs in Cold Storage Now
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References

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