44 Facts About Pune City

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Pune City is considered to be the cultural and educational capital of Maharashtra state.

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Pune City is widely regarded to be the second major IT hub and the most important automobile and manufacturing hub of India.

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Pune City has several world class educational institutions and is therefore widely regarded as "Oxford of the East".

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Pune City was part of the territory ruled by the Seuna Yadavas of Devagiri from the 9th century to 1327.

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Pune City was under control of Muslim leaders till the late 16th century.

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Pune City was part of the Jagir granted to Maloji Bhosale in 1599 for his services to the Nizamshahi.

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Pune City was ruled by the Ahmadnagar Sultanate until it was annexed by the Mughals in the 17th century.

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Pune City developed effective methods to manage disputes and to enforce law and order.

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Pune City commissioned the construction of the Shaniwar Wada on the right bank of the Mutha River.

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Pune City developed Saras Baug, Heera Baug, Parvati Hill and new commercial, trading, and residential localities.

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Pune City was prominently associated with the struggle for Indian independence.

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Pune City is home to the world's largest vaccine manufacturer, Serum Institute of India, which during the COVID-19 pandemic manufactured around 5,000 vaccine doses every minute.

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Pune City is situated at approximately 18° 32" north latitude and 73° 51" east longitude.

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Pune City is home to many distinctive peths, or place names, for various neighborhoods.

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Since Pune City is a major industrial metropolis, it has attracted migrants from all parts of India.

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Pune City has two of the most important pilgrimage centres of the Varkari sect of the Bhakti movement in Maharashtra, namely Alandi where the samadhi of 13th century Saint Dnyaneshwar is located and Dehu where the 17th century Saint Tukaram lived.

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Pune City is the birthplace of Meher Baba, although his followers usually travel to Meherabad to visit his tomb.

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Pune City has a distinct Christian community comprising Roman Catholic, CNI, Methodist, Presbyterians, Christian Missionaries helped in setting up sechools and colleges all over and spread the message of faith.

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Pune City has been associated with several significant recent spiritual teachers.

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Pune City is a well known manufacturing and industrial center of India.

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21.

Pune City has the fifth largest metropolitan economy and the sixth highest per capita income in the country.

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22.

Pune City has historically been known as a center for higher education and has been referred to as the educational capital of India.

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The group has several group companies in Pune City including Kirloskar Pneumatics and the groups flagship company Kirloskar Brothers Limited, one of India's largest manufacturers and exporters of pumps and the largest infrastructure pumping project contractor in Asia.

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Kalyani Group based in Pune City owns a subsidiary Bharat Forge which operates world's largest single location forging facility consisting of fully automated forging press lines and state-of-the-art machining facility in Pune City.

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Pune City has emerged as a new hub for tech startups in India.

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Pune City Food Cluster development project is an initiative funded by the World Bank.

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Pune City is an emerging center for VFX services, with Indian and international studios such as Anibrain, Reliance Animation, philm CGI, Digikore Studios, HMX Media, Stereo D, Framestore and Method Studios having established their facilities here.

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Museums in Pune City include the Raja Dinkar Kelkar Museum, Mahatma Phule Industrial Museum, Deccan college museum of Maratha history, Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Museum, Joshi's Museum of Miniature Railway and the Pune City Tribal Museum.

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Jnana Prabodhini, a social organisation in Pune City is widely accredited for founding the tradition of Dhol-Tasha pathaks.

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30.

Pune City has basketball courts at the Deccan Gymkhana and at Fergusson College.

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Pune City Skatepark is a skateboarding park built in Sahakarnagar, consisting of an eight-foot bowl in a 3,000 square foot flatground.

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Pune City International Marathon is an annual marathon conducted in Pune City.

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FC Pune City was an Indian Super League football club in Pune.

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34.

Pune City has an American football franchise, called the Pune City Marathas, which began playing in the inaugural season of the Elite Football League of India in 2011 and which plays at the Balewadi Stadium.

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Pune City has over a hundred educational institutes and more than nine deemed universities apart from the Savitribai Phule Pune City University, which is the largest University in the country based on total number of affiliated colleges.

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Pune City is the largest centre for Japanese learning in India.

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Several colleges in Pune City have student exchange programmes with colleges in Europe.

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Pune City is home to a number of governmental and non-governmental research institutes focusing on a wide range of subject areas from the humanities to the sciences.

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Public transport in Pune City includes Pune City Suburban Railway, bus services operated by PMPML and auto rickshaws.

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At Pune City, there is a diesel locomotive shed and an electric trip shed.

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In January 2019, Pune became the first Indian city to adopt e-buses and Bhekrai Nagar the country's first all electric bus depot.

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Pune City is well-connected to other cities by Indian and state highways.

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Mumbai Pune City Expressway is India's first six-lane high-speed expressway, and it was built in 2002.

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Once known as the "cycle city of India", Pune has experienced a rapid growth in the number of motorised two wheelers replacing the bicycle.

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