Muktainagar
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| other_name = Edlabad
| settlement_type = Town
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| postal_code = 425306
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| area_code = 91-02583
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Muktainagar (formerly Edlabad) is a town in Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, India. It is the administrative headquarter of its eponymous taluka. It is located in North Maharashtra region. {{Cite news|last=Dasgupta|first=Rajan|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nashik/donebjp-replaces-khadse-with-daughter-in-muktainagar/articleshow/71447788.cms|title=Muktainagar is in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra|date=5 October 2019|work=Times Of India|access-date=30 March 2020}}{{Cite book |url=https://censusindia.gov.in |title=District census handbook Jalgaon |publisher=Directorate of census operations Maharashtra |year=2014 |location=Mumbai |language=en |format=PDF }}
It located near bank of Purna river and is highest populated town in Muktainagar taluka.
History
During British rule, Muktainagar taluka was known as Edlabad petha and was part of East Khandesh district.{{cite book |last1=Koppikar |first1=Devrao Vithalrao |title=The Bombay Forest Manual, Revised ...: Forest law and policy, and constitution, protection, management and working of forests |date=1950 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7tJDAAAAIAAJ |access-date=8 May 2020 |language=en}} Around 1880, Muktainagar taluka was made part of Khandesh district's Bhusaval subdivision.{{cite book |title=Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency |date=1880 |publisher=Government Central Press |url=https://archive.org/details/gazetteer05pregoog |access-date=8 May 2020 |language=en}} Muktainagar taluk (then known as Edlabad mahal) was part of Bhusaval taluka.{{cite web |website=Census India |date=1961 |title=CENSUS OF INDIA 1961: district census handbook Jalgaon |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/2011census/dchb/2703_PART_B_DCHB_JALGAON.pdf}}
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census of India, Muktainagar had 5,352 households and a population of 23,970, of which 12,433 were males and 11,537 females. The population of children below six years of age was 3,201, making up 13.35% of the total population of the village. The sex ratio of Muktainagar village is 928, which is close to the Maharashtra state average of 929. The child sex ratio is 820, lower than the Maharashtra average of 894. In 2011, the literacy rate of Muktainagar village was 84.41% compared to an average of 82.34% in Maharashtra. In Muktainagar male literacy stands at 88.86% and female literacy at 79.70%. Members of scheduled castes (SC) constituted 10.75% of the population of Muktainagar village, while scheduled tribes (ST) made up 5.25%.{{cite web|title=Census of India: Search Details|url=http://www.censusindia.gov.in/pca/SearchDetails.aspx?Id=592162|access-date=5 January 2018|website=Census of India 2011|publisher=Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India}}
Education facilities
G.G. Khadse College is college offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses. A veterinary college is expected to start in 2020.
==Politics==
The former President of India Pratibha Patil started her political career in Muktainagar in the early 1960s.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pratibhapatil.info/profile/|title=PERSONAL PROFILE|last=|first=|date=|website=pratibhapatil.info|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702011030/http://www.pratibhapatil.info/profile/|archive-date=2 July 2018|access-date=|url-status=live}} The former revenue minister of Maharashtra, Eknath Khadse, was MLA from Muktainagar from 1989 to 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/people/rise-and-fall-of-former-bjp-minister-eknath-khadse/tryst-with-power/slideshow/52600771.cms|title=Rise and fall of former BJP minister Eknath Khadse|last=|first=|date=5 June 2016|website=The Economic Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702014009/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/slideshows/people/rise-and-fall-of-former-bjp-minister-eknath-khadse/tryst-with-power/slideshow/52600771.cms|archive-date=2 July 2018|access-date=|url-status=live}} Shiv Sena's Chandrakant Nimba Patil is the current MLA from the Muktainagar Vidhan Sabha constituency. He narrowly defeated Rohini Eknath Khadse of the BJP in the 2019 Maharashtra Legislative Assembly elections.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/maharashtra-election-result-2019-rohini-khadse-daughter-of-bjp-leader-eknath-khadse-trails-in-muktai-2121795%3famp=1&akamai-rum=off|title=Maharashta election 2019 : Rohini Khadse daughter BJP leader Eknath Khadse losses in Muktainagar.|last=Shrinivas|first=Chandrashekhar|date=24 October 2019|website=NDTV|access-date=}}