Dhule

Dhule is a small city in western India and a municipal corporation in Dhule District in the northwestern part known as Khandesh of Maharashtra state, India.The town planning of this city was done by Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya.The city, with industrial areas, schools, hospitals, supermarkets and residential areas, has communications and transport infrastructures.Dhule has a municipal corporation, and had 6,75,559 the 2011 census. (Includes Extended Area)Dhule is largely emerging as one of the upcoming hubs of textile, edible oil, and power-loom across the state and has gained a strategic advantage for being on the junction of three National Highways viz. NH-3, NH-6, and NH-211 and on most anticipated Manmad - Indore Rail Project. Central Government has granted permission recently for converting NH-3 from existing four lanes to six lanes between Dhule and Nashik with modern facilities.Dhule city is also a part of Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Project, as Node - 17, India's most ambitious infrastructure program, aiming to develop new industrial cities and converging next generation technologies across infrastructure sectors.As a part of creating employment across smaller cities, Ravi Shankar Prasad (Minister of Electronics and IT) has recently given in-principal approval for setting BPO at Dhule.