Sonkhed is a village in Loha taluka of

Nanded district Nanded district (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, aːn̪d̪eɖ is a districts of Maharashtra, district of Maharashtra state in central India. The city of Nanded is the district headquarters. History Nanded is mentioned in historica ...

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state of

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Demography

Sonkhed is a village with total 1100 families residing. The Sonkhed village has population of 5995 of which 3110 are males while 2885 are females as per Population Census 2011. Average Sex Ratio of Sonkhed village is 928 which is lower than Maharashtra state average of 929. Schedule Caste (SC) constitutes 15.60% while Schedule Tribe (ST) were 0.53% of total population in Sonkhed village. Sonkhed village has lower literacy rate compared to Maharashtra. In 2011, literacy rate of Sonkhed village was 78.08% compared to 82.34% of Maharashtra. In Sonkhed Male literacy stands at 86.13% while female literacy rate was 69.49%.

Transport

It is located 22 km towards South from District headquarters

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. 16 km from Loha. 536 km from State capital

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. There is no railway station in Sonkhed, nearest railway stations are Wanegaon(17 km), Limbgaon(18 km),

(19 km). Nearest airport Shri Guru Gobind Singh Ji Airport, Nanded is 22 km away.

Politics

Sonkhed comes under Nanded South for assembly elections of Maharashtra. Current member of

Maharashtra Legislative Assembly The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly (ISO: ''Mahārāṣṭra Vidhāna Sabhā'') is the lower house of the bicameral legislature of Maharashtra state in western India. It consists of 288 members directly elected from single-seat constituenci ...

representing Sonkhed is Hemant Sriram Patil of

Shiv Sena Shiv Sena (1966–2022) (; ; SS) was a right-wing Marathi regionalist Hindutva-based political party in India founded in 1966 by Bal Thackeray, who was later succeeded by Uddhav Thackeray. The party is split into two parties: the Uddha ...

since 2014. While it comes under

Nanded (Lok Sabha constituency) Nanded Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 48 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Maharashtra state in western India. Assembly segments Presently, after the implementation of the delimitation of parliamentary constituencies in 2008, Na ...

for Indian general elections. Current member of parliament representing Sonkhed is

Ashok Chavan Ashok Shankarrao Chavan (born 28 October 1958) is an Indian politician from Maharashtra. He is the son of the late former Maharashtra Chief Minister Shankarrao Chavan. He was one of the most influential leaders of Indian National Congress in Ma ...

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who is also former

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Culture

Wednesday is the day of weekly market in Sonkhed, hundreds of people from surrounding villages comes to Sonkhed on weekly market day. Well known ''Maroti Temple'' lie in centre of market place while other temples includes temple of ''

Sant Tukaram Tukaram (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, ̪ukaːɾam, also known as Tuka, Tukobaraya and Tukoba, was a Hindu Marathi people, Marathi saint of the Warkari, Warkari sampradaya in Dehu village, Maharashtra in the 17th century. He was ...

'', Goddess ''Satvaai'' or ''Sataamai'', Goddess ''Marimaai''. Besides market place there is grand Mosque for Muslims while Sonkhed also have a Buddhist Vihara which is known as ''Samaaj Mandir''. Most of marriages of local Buddhist people takes place at this ''Samaaj Mandir''.

Institutions

Sonkhed is one of major village in

. It has Primary health centre and Police station, both of which covers 40-60 surrounding small villages. Sonkhed have facility of education till graduation level and students from surrounding small villages come to Sonkhed for studies.

References

{{reflist Villages in Nanded district