Parner taluka is a

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in Ahmednagar district in the state of Maharashtra in western India.

Geography

Area

The following are area details:

Population

Parner taluka has a population of 274,167 according to the 2011 census. Parner had a literacy rate of 75.64% and a sex ratio of 955 females per 1000 males. The entire population was rural. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 6.97% and 6.22% of the population respectively. At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 96.11% of the population in the district spoke Marathi and 2.50%

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as their first language.

Climate

The climate of Parner is moderate, with variations in temperature ranging between 16 °C and 35 °C. The following chart details the amount of rainfall per year 1981–2004.

Notable people

* Senapati Pandurang Mahadev Bapat (1880–1967) Indian revolutionary, born in Parner village. * Anna Hazare (b.1937) Indian

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