Gunand observes Ganeshotsav on Monday, 14 September 2026, along with the rest of Maharashtra.
Temples near Gunand
Named places of worship on record
The principal temple recorded for Bhor mandal is Shree Datta Digamber Mandir. No temple of this dedication is on record within Gunand itself.
Called Ganeshotsav and kept for ten days. Modak is the offering, sarvajanik mandals organise the public pandals, and the main immersion is on Anant Chaturdashi.
The regional form observed across Maharashtra. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
Pune's procession order is fixed by tradition: Kasba Ganpati leads as the gram-daivat of the city, followed by Tambdi Jogeshwari, Guruji Talim, Tulshibaug and Kesariwada. Tilak began the public festival here in 1893, and the Manache Ganpati still set the sequence every Anant Chaturdashi.
The idol is kept for one and a half, three, five, seven days or until Anant Chaturdashi — it is a family custom rather than a rule, and community mandapams usually keep it longest.
| Kept for | Immersion | |
|---|---|---|
| One and a half days | Tue, 15 Septembertoday | |
| Three days | Thu, 17 September | |
| Five days | Sat, 19 September | |
| Seven days | Mon, 21 September | |
| Anant Chaturdashi | Wed, 23 September | The day most community mandapams immerse |
Many gram panchayats and municipalities set aside a pond or a marked stretch of tank for immersion. Ask at the panchayat office — it changes year to year, and a drinking-water tank or a farm pond is not an alternative.
A clay idol breaks down in water within hours. Plaster of Paris does not, and the paints carry heavy metals, so idols accumulate in tanks and rivers after immersion. Pollution control boards in most states now ask for clay for exactly this reason.
Immersion points get crowded and the bank is slippery after the monsoon. Children go into the water at these gatherings every year. Keep one person watching the water rather than the procession.
Thermocol, plastic sheeting, cloth and metal ornaments do not belong in the tank even when the idol itself is clay. Most organised immersion points now have a collection bin at the bank for them.
By population, Gunand ranks #112 of 192 villages in Bhor mandal.
Source: Census of India 2011 (village PCA; mandal and district aggregates).
Gunand is a village of 570 people in 133 households (Census 2011) in Bhor taluka, Pune district, Maharashtra, the 112th-largest of 192 villages in Bhor taluka. Literacy is 81%, 10 points above the taluka average of 71% and the sex ratio is 1,007 women per 1,000 men. It lies 101 km from the Pune district centre, 20 km from Narhe, the nearest town, 13 km from Valha railway station (straight-line distances). The pincode is 412205, served by Khed Shivapur Baug post office; the LGD village code is 556725. The nearest hospital or health centre is Sanjeevan Hospital, Satara, 7 km away. The village votes in Shirur assembly constituency, represented by MLA Dnyaneshwar Alias Mauli Aba Katke. The population is estimated at 672 in 2026, up 18% since the 2011 Census.
Gram panchayat: Gunand →
| village | Population | Literacy | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gunand · this village | 570 | 81% | — |
| Taprewadi · Bhor | 702 | 78% | 1 km NW |
| Tondal · Khandala | 1,024 | 79% | 1.7 km NE |
| Tondal · Purandhar | 1,285 | 73% | 1.7 km NE |
| Penjalwadi · Bhor | 854 | 84% | 3.2 km NW |
| Vatharhinge · Bhor | 719 | 74% | 3.4 km W |
| Bholi · Khandala | 1,595 | 81% | 4.1 km S |
Water supply timings, gram sabha dates, camps and drives — residents post them here and they expire on their own.
1 Temple mapped by OpenStreetMap contributors. Residents can add the village jatara and temple festival under Events.
Sources: Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner of India (Census 2011 + Population Projections 2011-2036) · International Institute for Population Sciences (NFHS-5) · Election Commission of India · data.gov.in (Jal Jeevan Mission, PMAY-G, SBM-G dashboards). Projections may differ from on-the-ground reality by ±20% for individual villages. An asterisk next to a sex-ratio value (—*) flags a Census 2011 figure outside the plausible range of 300–2000 ♀/1000♂; the underlying source row is suppressed pending review.
Gunand doesn't have its own precise centroid yet, so these places are nearby in the Bhor mandal — sorted by distance from the village's approximate centre. Claim the village to add precise locations.
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