District|Maharashtra
Ahilyanagar district
1 of 14 talukas already draw more groundwater than recharges and 2 more are close to that line, and 90.7% of households are recorded with a tap, with the gap sitting in the blocks without canal water, Pathardi and Karjat.
Read as of 2026-09-06, from 1325 Gram Panchayats in 14 blocks, 1297 of them with a brief that cleared the evidence floor.
District stage of extraction 76.7%, assessed semi-critical. Assessed per revenue taluka, not per block or Panchayat.
7,15,000 connections against 7,88,220 households in 1297 Panchayats.
4,909 sources on the JJM register, 3,343 of them open well; 1,098 on surface water.
Type a name, a block or an LGD code; all 1,325 are listed. Press Enter to open the first match, or browse by block further down.
What the district runs on
Irrigation from the Census village tables (Census 2011 release; village reference year 2009), drinking water from the sources JJM records today. A Panchayat without a measure lowers that measure’s denominator rather than counting as a zero.
- Canals18.0%(1,20,619 ha)
- Wells33.8%(2,26,496 ha)
- Tanks2.0%(13,402 ha)
- Other sources46.2%(3,09,589 ha)
Census 2011 village tables, covering 1313 of 1325 Panchayats with a land record. A historical baseline, not current cropping.
- Ground Water76.4%(3,752)
- Surface Water22.4%(1,098)
- Others1.1%(53)
- Bulk water (from MVS)0.1%(4)
- Rain Water0.0%(2)
JJM, read 2026-09-02. Commonest source types: Open Well (3,343), Lake (376), Deep Tubewell (375), River (223).
76.4% of the 4,909 drinking-water sources JJM records here draw on groundwater (3,343 of them open wells), against 1,098 on surface water.
Groundwater by taluka
IN-GRES assesses revenue talukas, not blocks or Panchayats. These are the units the district is actually assessed in, and the headroom reading is written from them.
IN-GRES 2024-2025 puts total groundwater availability across the 14 talukas at 1,54,404 ham a year, 1,03,692 ham of it rainfall recharge, with 46,358 ham (30%) left for future use. Of the 14 talukas, 1 over-exploited, 2 critical, 7 semi-critical and 4 safe. The district as a whole is assessed semi-critical at 76.7% of extraction. Headroom sits mostly in Parner (10,092 ham) and is thinnest in Rhata (480 ham).
| Taluka | Stage of extraction | Category | Rainfall recharge (ham) | Total availability (ham) | Left for future use (ham) | Rainfall (mm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhata | 106.4% | over-exploited | 3,717 | 7,442 | 480 | 515 |
| Kopargaon | 92.2% | critical | 4,069 | 7,695 | 1,500 | 512 |
| Sangamner | 91.7% | critical | 9,996 | 13,738 | 2,719 | 501 |
| Rahuri | 88.3% | semi-critical | 5,850 | 12,627 | 3,241 | 523 |
| Shrirampur | 87.8% | semi-critical | 3,885 | 7,889 | 1,649 | 575 |
| Newasa | 86.4% | semi-critical | 9,522 | 16,921 | 3,305 | 597 |
| Shevgaon | 82.2% | semi-critical | 7,197 | 8,898 | 2,266 | 638 |
| Pathardi | 81.9% | semi-critical | 8,638 | 11,032 | 2,857 | 674 |
| Akola | 76.9% | semi-critical | 5,928 | 8,368 | 2,508 | 593 |
| Shrigonda | 71.8% | semi-critical | 8,238 | 11,844 | 3,827 | 517 |
| Nagar | 66.5% | safe | 9,835 | 12,465 | 4,502 | 617 |
| Jamkhed | 61.7% | safe | 5,125 | 6,284 | 2,407 | 652 |
| Karjat | 59.5% | safe | 9,351 | 12,370 | 5,006 | 556 |
| Parner | 41.3% | safe | 12,341 | 16,831 | 10,092 | 575 |
IN-GRES 2024-2025. The stage of extraction is annual draft as a share of total availability; above 100 percent, more is drawn each year than the taluka is assessed to have. Rainfall recharge is one component of that availability. The year is the hydrological-year label, not an edition date. 1325 of 1325 Panchayats inherit their containing taluka's category by administrative membership, as containing-area context rather than a measurement of the place; 0 are deferred rather than guessed.
Blocks compared
The same measures per block. Where a district average hides a gradient, this is where it shows, and the findings are written before the table rather than left for the reader to find.
Canal share runs from 86.8% in Nevasa to 0.2% in Akole; wells fill the difference, 11.9% of irrigated farmland at the bottom of the gradient against 61.4% at the top.
The tap gap is mostly on the blocks without canal water (Pathardi (83.1% of households, 3.0% canal), Karjat (83.5% of households, 6.7% canal), Akole (87.0% of households, 0.2% canal), Parner (88.4% of households, 6.3% canal), Sangamner (89.7% of households, 5.2% canal) and Nagar (90.2% of households, 2.6% canal)); Shevgaon (84.6% of households, 15.0% canal), Shrigonda (92.3% of households, 33.7% canal), Rahuri (92.4% of households, 61.1% canal), Nevasa (94.1% of households, 86.8% canal), Kopargaon (94.4% of households, 61.9% canal), Rahta (95.5% of households, 50.0% canal) and Shrirampur (97.6% of households, 63.3% canal) are the exception, with canal water and a gap.
| Drinking water, JJM | Farmland irrigation, Census 2011 | Groundwater, IN-GRES | Water bodies, Census | Water-quality testing, JJM | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Block | Panchayats | Households with a tap | Irrigated area | from canals | from wells | from tanks | Taluka category, projected | Mapped | Untested 90+ d | Longest since tested |
| Akole | 147 | 87.0% | 64,334 ha | 0.2% | 11.9% | 0.2% | semi-critical(147 of 147) | 320 | 8 | 1,263 d |
| Jamkhed | 58 | 99.6% | 40,619 ha | 0.5% | 20.7% | 2.3% | safe(58 of 58) | 234 | 0 | 60 d |
| Karjat | 92 | 83.5% | 64,401 ha | 6.7% | 19.2% | 2.2% | safe(92 of 92) | 316 | 20 | 356 d |
| Kopargaon | 75 | 94.4% | 20,234 ha | 61.9% | 75.9% | 13.8% | critical(75 of 75) | 185 | 27 | 636 d |
| Nagar | 105 | 90.2% | 76,164 ha | 2.6% | 27.3% | 1.8% | safe(105 of 105) | 636 | 8 | 349 d |
| Nevasa | 114 | 94.1% | 40,093 ha | 86.8% | 61.4% | 0.9% | semi-critical(114 of 114) | 192 | 17 | 186 d |
| Parner | 114 | 88.4% | 95,988 ha | 6.3% | 18.3% | 0.5% | safe(114 of 114) | 694 | 30 | 436 d |
| Pathardi | 109 | 83.1% | 57,495 ha | 3.0% | 17.9% | 0.9% | semi-critical(109 of 109) | 243 | 7 | 193 d |
| Rahta | 50 | 95.5% | 20,287 ha | 50.0% | 71.6% | 0.3% | over-exploited(50 of 50) | 78 | 3 | 228 d |
| Rahuri | 83 | 92.4% | 20,044 ha | 61.1% | 91.8% | 12.1% | semi-critical(83 of 83) | 145 | 16 | 226 d |
| Sangamner | 144 | 89.7% | 59,244 ha | 5.2% | 43.8% | 1.3% | critical(144 of 144) | 484 | 19 | 391 d |
| Shevgaon | 94 | 84.6% | 46,501 ha | 15.0% | 25.8% | 0.5% | semi-critical(94 of 94) | 240 | 18 | 460 d |
| Shrigonda | 88 | 92.3% | 48,208 ha | 33.7% | 43.6% | 1.9% | semi-critical(88 of 88) | 315 | 7 | 179 d |
| Shrirampur | 52 | 97.6% | 16,496 ha | 63.3% | 105.5% | 4.7% | semi-critical(52 of 52) | 128 | 8 | 338 d |
Canal, well and tank figures are shares of the irrigated farmland beside them, not of households and not of drinking water. They come from Census 2011 (Census 2011 release; village reference year 2009) and cover only the 1313 Panchayats with a Census land record, so a block with few such records shows a share of a small area. Tap and testing figures are JJM and current at the read date. The talukacategory is the one most of the block’s Panchayats inherit by projection, which here is the taluka the register places them in. Untested counts Panchayats whose most recent water-quality sample is more than 90 days before 2026-09-06; ninety days is the Atlas’s own threshold for calling a series stale, not a statutory testing interval.
Floods and scarcity
Two readings the directory families cannot carry: what the state's own disaster plan says about flood exposure here, and - where the state publishes one - the week's tanker register. Both are the state's documents, quoted and dated, not the Atlas's assessment.
4 government, 93 private.
Villages the report lists on tanker supply.
Hamlets (wadis and wastis) the report lists on tanker supply.
Ahilyanagar ran more tankers than any other district in the week to 2026-08-30: 97 (4 government, 93 private), supplying 94 villages and 499 wadis. Statewide the week's report has 321 villages and 1,125 wadis on 348 tankers (7 government, 341 private), worst in Ahilyanagar (97).
Ahilyanagar is one of the eight districts the state disaster plan names as not flood-prone; every other district in the state is.
“All districts in the State except Ahmednagar, Beed, Solapur, Latur, Osmanabad, Jalna, Aurangabad, and Buldhana are flood prone.”
Water bodies
The First Census of Water Bodies (Ministry of Jal Shakti, reference years 2017-18 to 2020-21), which locates each water body in a Census village; the LGD's own village list names the Panchayat, so the join is a code match, not a name match.
388 Panchayats have none in the return. 718 rural rows sit in villages the LGD lists under two Panchayats or under none and are counted on the taluka without being assigned, and 66 are in towns. 4,210 carry a recorded coordinate and are drawn on the Panchayat pages. Owned by Co-operative, Group of Individuals, Individual, Muncipal authority, Other Govt.Agency, Other private body, Panchayat, State WRD/State Irrigation. Read 2026-09-02.
| Census class | Water bodies |
|---|---|
| Water consv schemes/percolation tanks/check-dams | 3,959 |
| Tank | 136 |
| Others | 80 |
| Reservoirs | 22 |
| Ponds | 13 |
Waterspread is not published. The Ahmadnagar return shows the template pattern in a 1,200-row sample: 20 distinct whole-number waterspread values with 0 on a majority of rows and depth NA on half, an enumerator's default rather than a measurement, so the waterspread is not published. Counts, types, ownership and recorded coordinates are served.
District Environment Plan
Environment Department, Government of Maharashtra and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board prepared the plan on the CPCB model under the NGT's 2019 order. What it states about water is transcribed below, each figure with the page it sits on; nothing here is computed from it.
Dated 2019-12-30, 12 pages. Read the plan at MPCB (PDF). The label MPCB's listing gives the plans; the PDF metadata dates the file 30 December 2019 and the filename carries 23 June 2021, the date it was posted. The plan predates the district's 2024 renaming to Ahilyanagar.
Transcription checked against the document on 2026-09-02.
| Figure | As stated | Where |
|---|---|---|
Rivers counted by the water-quality section 5 major rivers with 56 km in the district and 4 drains or nallas meeting them; the profile table names Godavari and Bhima. | 5 rivers | p. 7 (PDF p. 8) |
Groundwater polluted stretches identified The plan pairs this with a statement that groundwater quantity is adequate in the district. | 3 stretches | p. 7 (PDF p. 8) |
Sewage generated by all ULBs Fifteen ULBs; sewer network length 88 km. | 94.7 MLD | p. 7 (PDF p. 8) |
Installed STP capacity One ULB of fifteen has an STP; capacity is 3% of generation by the plan's own figures. | 2.8 MLD | p. 7 (PDF p. 8) |
Sewage left untreated Only 3% of generated sewage is treated; only one ULB has installed an STP. | 91.9 MLD | p. 7 (PDF p. 8) |
Population covered by the sewage network | 15 percent | p. 7 (PDF p. 8) |
Industrial effluent generation From 564 industries, prominently agro-based, pharma and sugar distillery. | 27.5 MLD | p. 7 (PDF p. 8) |
Industries meeting water discharge limits The same sentence records 20 complaints in the last three months; MPCB closed 2 industries and imposed environmental compensation on 1. | 20 industries | p. 7 (PDF p. 8) |
Action points the plan sets for water: criticality-based monitoring of river bodies, with sewage network expansion and stp installation where the footprint is missing. Two things to know when reading the PDF: The cover page header reads 'District Environment Plan: Bhandara'; every inner page reads Ahmednagar. The profile table prints 'Population Total: 9,41,327 [According to 2011 Census Report]' for a district whose Census 2011 population is about 45 lakh; the row is not transcribed. The 'Sub districts' row of the profile is blank; 'Tahsils' prints 14, matching the LGD.
Polluted river stretches
What CPCB's October 2025 (updated version) report lists for the district. Priority is CPCB's own BOD band on the 2022 and 2023 maximum, I the worst; station BOD for 2024 is the report's follow-up annexure. Each row says how it was joined to the district: a place CPCB prints, or the river's course.
Source: CPCB, Polluted River Stretches for Restoration of Water Quality, October 2025 (updated version) (cpcb.gov.in). The report is cited by annexure serial and PDF page; it is not mirrored here.
| River | Stretch or location, as CPCB prints it | Priority | Max BOD 2022 and 2023 (mg/L) | Stations, BOD 2024 | Since 2018 | Joined to this district by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Godavari | RIVER GODAVARI FROM U/S OF GANGAPUR DAM TO BELUR,DHARMADABAD, NANDED (Annexure III A, no. 78, PDF p. 88) | Priority III | 12 | 18, BOD 2 to 20 | improved from Priority I in 2018 | the river's course, as read by the maintainer: the Godavari runs along Ahmadnagar's Kopargaon, Rahata, Shrirampur and Nevasa talukas between Nashik and Aurangabad (maintainer's reading of the course; CPCB names no place in the district) |
Find a Gram Panchayat
Every one of the 1325 LGD-coded Gram Panchayats is listed. A place shows a water profile only where its evidence cleared the floor (identity, population and drinking-water service established); the rest are directory records, kept so they can be found and reviewed.
1325 Gram Panchayats. 1297 water profile, 28 directory record.
| Achalgaon | Kopargaon | 167852 | Water profile |
| Adgaon | Pathardi | 168255 | Water profile |
| Adgaon Budruk | Rahta | 168362 | Water profile |
| Adgaon Khurd | Rahta | 168361 | Water profile |
| Adhalgaon | Shrigonda | 168724 | Water profile |
| Adhodi | Shevgaon | 168631 | Water profile |
| Adhorewadi | Shrigonda | 168725 | Water profile |
| Agadgaon | Nagar | 167927 | Water profile |
| Agaskhand | Pathardi | 168256 | Water profile |
| Aghee | Jamkhed | 167702 | Water profile |
| Ajnuj | Shrigonda | 168726 | Water profile |
| Akalapur | Sangamner | 168491 | Water profile |
| Akhatwade | Shevgaon | 168632 | Water profile |
| Akhegaon Titarpha | Shevgaon | 168633 | Water profile |
| Akhoni | Karjat | 167761 | Water profile |
| Akkalwadi | Parner | 168144 | Water profile |
| Akole | Pathardi | 168257 | Water profile |
| Akolner | Nagar | 167929 | Water profile |
| Alhanwadi | Pathardi | 168258 | Water profile |
| Alkuti | Parner | 168145 | Water profile |
| Alsunde | Karjat | 167762 | Water profile |
| Amalner | Nevasa | 168029 | Water profile |
| Ambad | Akole | 167559 | Water profile |
| Ambewangan | Akole | 167560 | Water profile |
| Ambhol | Akole | 167803 | Water profile |
| Ambhore | Sangamner | 168492 | Water profile |
| Ambi | Rahuri | 168412 | Water profile |
| Ambi Dumala | Sangamner | 168493 | Water profile |
| Ambi Jalgaon | Karjat | 167763 | Water profile |
| Ambi Khalasa | Sangamner | 168494 | Water profile |
| Ambikanagar | Pathardi | 168259 | Water profile |
| Ambilwadi | Nagar | 167930 | Water profile |
| Ambit | Akole | 167561 | Water profile |
| Ambitkhind | Akole | 167557 | Water profile |
| Ammalner | Rahuri | 168411 | Water profile |
| Amrapur | Shevgaon | 168634 | Water profile |
| Anandwadi | Jamkhed | 167703 | Water profile |
| Anandwadi | Shrigonda | 168727 | Water profile |
| Angare | Shrigonda | 302606 | Directory record |
| Anjanapur | Kopargaon | 167853 | Water profile |
The district on a map
Every Panchayat with a mapped boundary is plotted from the centre of its own DataMeet polygon, not from a hand-entered coordinate. The marker is the Panchayat, not a settlement.
1282 of 1325 Panchayats have a mapped boundary. The polygons are DataMeet's community digitisation of the 2001 Census village map (ODbL), joined to the 2011 codes and dissolved to each Panchayat's member villages; each taluka and Panchayat page draws them.
How current these figures are
Not everything on this page is from the same year, and the gap is large. What each figure describes is listed separately from when the Atlas last read it, straight from each artifact's own record.
| Figures | Describes | Last read | Produced | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panchayat list and codes | LGD edition 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 | Local Government Directory (Ministry of Panchayati Raj) as republished on data.gov.in: the Panchayat list, its covered villages and the taluka list, refreshed monthly. |
| Drinking-water service, sources, testing | current at 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 | Jal Jeevan Mission citizen corner: habitations, tap connections, sources, sample rows. |
| Land, irrigation and seasonal sources | Census 2011 release; village reference year 2009 | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 | Census 2011 village tables, the newest village-level irrigation enumeration served here. No current reading is wired: the District Socio-Economic Review's irrigation-by-source tables are not yet extracted for this district, the national Land Use Statistics tables are reachable only from within India, and the 2017-18 Minor Irrigation Census (wells and tanks by village) is not wired yet. |
| Groundwater assessment | 2024-2025 | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 | IN-GRES, assessed per revenue taluka. The year is the hydrological-year label. |
| Groundwater projected to Panchayats | 2024-2025 | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 | Each Panchayat inherits its taluka's category through the register's own membership. |
| Rainfall | 2026-08-03 to 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 | Open-Meteo reanalysis at a grid point inside each Panchayat, not a gauge. |
| Water bodies | reference years 2017-18 to 2020-21, published 2023 | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 | First Census of Water Bodies, assigned to each Panchayat through the LGD's own village list; counts, classes and points. |
| Panchayat briefs | 2026-09-06 | 2026-09-06 | 2026-09-06 | Generated from the families above; a place without identity, population and service stays directory-only. |
| District Environment Plan | 2018-19 plan, dated 2019-12-30 | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 | Transcribed from the published PDF with the page each figure sits on; nothing computed from it. |
| Tankers deployed | week to 2026-08-30, report dated 2026-08-31 | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 | WSSD weekly tanker report (Government of Maharashtra), transcribed edition by edition from the scanned PDF; every edition must reproduce the report's own printed totals before it is accepted. |
| Flood classification | Maharashtra State Disaster Management Plan, 2023, 2023-09-05 | 2026-09-02 | 2026-09-02 | The plan's own flood classification, quoted with its page; the Atlas classifies nothing itself. A revised plan replaces this line wholesale. |
The land, irrigation and seasonal-source figures are the oldest thing here by a wide margin. India’s 2021 census did not take place, so Census 2011 remains the most recent village-level enumeration and there is no newer source of the same granularity to replace it with. Those figures are kept under capabilities named historical, and the current-crop capability is left empty rather than answered with a 2009 number.