Gajanan Maharaj Sansthan, Shegaon

Shegaon  is a city and a municipal council in Buldana district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Shegaon is located around 300 km west from the city of Nagpur and 550 km east from the city of Mumbai. It is located on the Howrah-Nagpur-Mumbai line of the Central Railway of Indian Railways. It has direct train connectivity to Mumbai CST, Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Jamshedpur, Ahmedabad, Okha, Kolhapur, Amravati, Wardha, Nagpur, Gondia, Bilaspur, Howrah-Kolkata, Shalimar-Kolkata, Ballarshah, Chennai Central. From Mumbai several trains halt at Shegaon. Prominent being Vidarbha Express, Amravati Superfast Express, Mumbai Howrah mail and express, Sewagram express, Nagpur-Pune express, Navjivan Express, Gondwana Express, Maharashtra Express, Okha-Puri Express and Gitanjali express.

By road it is well connecting by neighbouring cities like Khamgaon, Balapur, Malkapur and Akola which are located on Hajira (Surat)- Dhule – Howrah (Kolkatta) National Highway 6. It is quite close to the industrial cities of Aurangabad and Nagpur.

Shegaon has traditionally been a big market for cotton. Cotton from ginning and pressing mills of Shegaon used to be transported directly to textile mills in Mumbai via goods trains. British textile companies like Rallis India had their procurement office in Shegoan during pre-independence days. Many ginning and pressing mills like M. M. Ginning & Pressing Factory, Bhattad Group of Ginning & Mills, Gajanan Ginning Factory, Bhartia Group Of Ginning And Mills are functional in this area.

Apart from that, Shegaon also has engineering industries that manufacture material handling equipment – Chain Pulley Blocks, Industrial Cranes, Link Chain, etc. managed by Abhay Group of Industries. Shegaon has mineral water bottling plant, oil mills, paint manufacturing and other industries. Gajanan Maharaj College of Engineering also runs a CNC tool room manufacturing precision parts for companies across Maharashtra. In Future Shegaon may become Big Industrial place